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  • Top News of the Week July 22 – 27, 2013

    28 July 2013

    DSME Bags USD 595 Million Worth Drillship Order VANTAGE Drilling has placed an order with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for the construction of a new drillship. According to the DSME’s regulatory filing from July 19, the order is estimated to be worth around $595 million. Cosco Orders Four Vessels from NACKS (China) […]

  • Spain Criticized for Towing Burning Trawler to Open Seas

    17 April 2015

    The environmental organization Greenpeace has criticized Spanish authorities for towing the burning Russian trawler Oleg Naydenov from the port of Las Palmas to the open seas where the vessel sank on Tuesday, laden with 1,409 tons of fuel, Reuters reports. Greenpeace says that the ship poses an environmental threat to the habitat, saying that the […]

  • Norway: Statoil Halts Production from Snohvit Offshore Field Due to LNG Plant Problems

    13 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    On Wednesday afternoon, Statoil temporarily shut down production at its LNG plant at Melkøya outside Hammerfest following rupture of a fire water line. The fire water unit is part of the plant’s safety system, and Statoil implemented a controlled production shut down.  A water leakage at the rupture site has excavated some of the soil […]

  • AES joins forces with Estrella-Linda Group

    3 September 2014

    The AES Corporation has, through one of its subsidiaries, entered into a strategic partnership with the Estrella-Linda Group, an investor group based in the Dominican Republic. Under this agreement, Estrella-Linda will acquire an 8% minority interest in AES’ business in the Dominican Republic for $96 million. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth […]

  • Australia: Arrow Energy Ups Its Domestic Gas Market Stake

    4 July 2011
    Project & Tenders

        Arrow Energy will today take over the operations of the Braemar 2 power station, near Dalby, following its acquisition last week of the remaining 25 per cent ownership, reinforcing the company’s commitment to provide gas to the domestic market. Braemar 2, built at a cost of $550m and commissioned in 2009, is fired […]

  • Hima in Ichthys LNG win

    11 December 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Brühl-based Hima informed it has been contracted by the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project to deliver safety instrumented systems (SIS) and the fire and gas system (F&G).

  • Armed Men Attack Tugboat off Malaysia, Injure Master

    7 December 2018

    A tug master was injured when four armed men attempted to hijack his tugboat off Malaysia.

  • Thanckes Jetty Project Includes Dredging

    25 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    VolkerStevin recently won a £43 million contract to build new jetty at Thanckes Oil Fuel Depot which provides fueling facilities for the Royal Navy at Devonport Naval Base. The project will deliver a new jetty with fuel loading and fire fighting facilities; the fire fighting facilities within the depot will also be replaced. According to VolkerStevin, the […]

  • UKMTO: Piracy Threat Still Looming in Bab al Mandeb

    7 July 2014

    Over the previous week pirates were lurking on ships sailing in the immediate vicinity of the Bab al Mandeb a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia and along the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor, the United Kingdom Marine Trade Operations (UKMTO) said in the latest report.   The majority […]

  • USCG: Gas Pipeline Ruptures Off Marsh Island, Two Injured

    27 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The U.S. Coast Guard has responded to a report of a natural gas pipeline fire, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Marsh Island. Namely, Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a notification yesterday at 8:30 p.m. that a natural gas pipeline had ruptured and was on fire. Sector New Orleans directed the launch […]

  • Petrobras restarts production from P-20 platform

    8 April 2014

    Brazilian oil company Petrobras has informed that the platform P-20, installed in the Marlim field in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil, resumed oil production on Monday. The production had been closed due to the damage caused by a fire that occurred on the platform on December 26 last year. The fire had damaged the platform’s chemicals […]

  • Gazprom, DONG in Gas Power Plant Talks (Russia)

    12 March 2012

    Following the Memorandum of Intent signed in April, Gazprom and DONG Energy held negotiations and agreed on the action plan to further develop cooperation between the two companies in Northwestern Europe at the existing gas-fired power plants as well as at a brand new and modern combined cycle power plant to be constructed. The action plan stipulates development of the design documents and the financial feasibility study […]

  • Most popular articles of the week, Jul 28 – Aug 3, 2014

    3 August 2014

    New offshore contracts; EU-Russia sanctions; Indian firms looking to Malaysia; Brazilian platform on fire; Offshore jobs advice….

  • Body of Third Filipino Worker Killed in Rig Accident Recovered (USA)

    30 November 2012

    The death toll in the November 16 explosion and fire that hit an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has climbed to three after authorities positively identified the body recovered on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) as that of a missing Filipino worker. Jose L. Cuisia, Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the […]

  • Update: Additional support on the way to burning car carrier off Azores

    21 February 2022
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    Felicity Ace, the 6,400 CEU car carrier which caught fire on 16 February, is assumed to remain on fire south of the Azores currently drifting away from the islands, according to the update on the incident.

  • Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Black Elk Energy CEO

    2 August 2013

    Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC (“BEEOO”), an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, announced this week that the 164th District Court of Harris County, Texas, recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by a small group of seed capital investors in Black Elk Energy, LLC against the majority unit holders and John Hoffman, Chief […]

  • EIA: five Asian countries show slight increase in LNG imports

    19 August 2016

    Liquefied natural gas imports into five Asian countries, Japan, South Korea, China, India and Taiwan have risen only 1 percent in the first six months of 2016 compared to the same period the year before.

  • Ship Burned Before Sinking, Passengers Say

    4 February 2006

    Survivors of a ferry sinking that has claimed hundreds of lives say there was a fire aboard the aging vessel.

  • Australia: Arrow Celebrates Anniversary of CSG Powered Station

    4 July 2012

    Arrow Energy is celebrating the first anniversary of its ownership of Dalby’s gas-fired Braemar 2 power station with record reliability and no injuries in the last 12 months. Arrow Energy CEO Andrew Faulkner said Braemar 2, Queensland’s second-largest gas-fired power station, had provided 365 days of uninterrupted electricity to about three per cent of Queensland […]

  • Crown Estate: Dogger Bank to Attract Economic Growth and Jobs

    18 February 2015
    Human Capital

    The Crown Estate yesterday welcomed the first consent order for offshore wind energy at Dogger Bank in the North Sea, the largest renewable energy development ever to receive planning consent in the UK and the largest offshore wind project to receive consent globally. Head of Offshore Wind for The Crown Estate, Huub den Rooijen said […]

  • Methane Gas Leak Led to Deadly Tamar Explosion

    31 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    Based on a preliminary analysis, an explosion aboard the Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier Tamar in late April was caused by a methane gas leak. The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator informed that the likely immediate cause of the explosion and fire was methane gas leaking from the no. 1 cargo hold and entering the windlass […]

  • Four Dead, Three Kidnapped After Pirates Attack Dredger in Gulf of Guinea

    6 January 2020

    Four persons were killed following a pirate attack on a hopper dredger in the Gulf of Guinea.

  • Randgrid FSO Starts Working in the North Sea

    6 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    The FSO unit Randgrid, which was converted from one of Teekay Offshore Partners’ shuttle tankers, started its charter contract with Statoil in the Gina Krog oil and gas field on October 6. Following conversion works at Sembcorp’s Sembawang shipyard in Singapore, the unit set sail for Gina Krog, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, where it […]

  • USA: County Calls for Brookhaven Dredging

    16 September 2013

    Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine, on September 13 requested that the County of Suffolk dredge more than a dozen locations across the Town during the 2013/2014 dredging season. Sites for dredge spoils for each location, which are either owned by the Town or where an agreement is in place to accept spoils, was also included in […]

  • Unified Command Responds to Dredger Accident at Port O’Connor, TX

    19 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The U.S. Coast Guard has just released the latest update on the gas pipeline accident near Port O’Connor, TX, saying that a Unified Command consisting of Coast Guard, Texas General Land Office and RLB Contracting Inc., continues to carry out all necessary activities in response to this incident. Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders received […]