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  • Turkmenistan: Dragon Oil Encounters Several Oil Bearing Sands at Dzheitune (Lam) B/155 Well

    3 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Dragon Oil plc , an international oil and gas exploration and production company, announces the completion and initial testing of the Dzheitune (Lam) B/155 development well, the sixth well drilled from the Dzheitune (Lam) B platform. The well was designed as a delineation-development well to reach the furthermost western area of the Dzheitune (Lam) West […]

  • Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Keeping Shippers on Their Toes

    2 September 2014

    African shipping may be hit hard by the Ebola outbreak as shipping agents start to refuse to call at West African ports for security reasons or ask for higher rates to do so. Freight rates for clean tankers heading from the UK continent to the West Africa could see an increase due to the Ebola crisis […]

  • Proserv Wins Award at EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year 2013

    9 October 2013

    The chief executive of rapidly growing energy technology services company Proserv has scooped the award for Private Equity Backed Business in the EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 awards.  David Lamont was praised for the company’s impressive acquisition strategy, its geographical reach and the opportunities for further expansion. During his two years at Proserv, […]

  • ‘Floatel Endurance’ cleared for Gina Krog field work

    30 August 2016

    Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Floatel International an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the semi-submersible accommodation and construction support vessel, Floatel Endurance. PSA said on Tuesday that the Floatel Endurance semi-submersible would work for Statoil at the Gina Krog field in its first commission on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Including this […]

  • CPN delivers biofuel to OOCL’s vessel in inaugural bunkering operation in Hong Kong

    20 August 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Operations & Maintenance

    OOCL, in cooperation with Chimbusco Pan Nation Petro-Chemical (CPN), has completed its first biofuel bunkering operation in Hong Kong.

  • BHP to sell stake in Exxon-operated Bass Strait joint venture

    18 August 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Energy giant BHP has revealed plans to sell its 50 per cent stake in the Bass Strait oil and gas venture to enable focusing on higher-value petroleum assets.

  • VIDEO: Port of Rotterdam Partners with TOC Worldwide

    15 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s leading port, has signed a global partner deal with TOC Worldwide, organiser of the global TOC portfolio of port-centric maritime trade and supply chain events. The two partners said that the new agreement reflects a mutual commitment to foster greater dialogue and co-operation across international supply chains, at a time when […]

  • Panama Canal Expansion Program Registers 60.4 Pct Progress

    26 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Panama Canal Expansion is moving forward to achieve its goal of enhancing the waterway’s capacity in order to provide a better service to customers. To date, the Program registers a 60.4% progress. “The Panama Canal Expansion will enhance the value of the Panama route,” Panama Canal Administrator Jorge L. Quijano said. “We are focused […]

  • Two firsts for DeepOcean as it gets to work with Woodside in Senegal

    19 June 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Norway-based ocean services provider DeepOcean has secured its first work with Australian energy giant Woodside Energy, entailing subsea inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) services to be performed at Senegal’s first offshore oil deepwater development. DeepOcean’s subsidiary Searov Offshore SAS has been awarded frame agreements by Woodside Energy (Senegal) to provide the subsea services for the Sangomar deepwater […]

  • Carnarvon Petroleum joins ‘net-zero by 2050’ club

    6 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vision

    Australian oil exploration company Carnarvon Petroleum has decided to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 if not earlier.

  • Shell’s profit soars, LNG sales bump up

    26 April 2018

    The Hague-based LNG giant reported a sharp increase in its first-quarter profit, boosted by contributions from its Integrated Gas and Upstream businesses. 

  • Afren Strikes Oil Offshore Nigeria

    17 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Afren plc announces that the Okoro East exploration well, offshore south east Nigeria, has made a new oil discovery having encountered 549 ft true vertical thickness (TVT) of net oil pay and 41 ft of net gas pay in excellent quality reservoir sands. The well result represents a successful start to Afren’s 2012 exploration campaign […]

  • Noble hires Ensco drillship for Leviathan drilling (Israel)

    22 August 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Offshore driller Ensco has secured a contract for its ultra-deepwater drillship ENSCO DS-7 with Noble Energy in Israel. Noble will use the drillship to to drill two wells and complete four production wells at the Leviathan field development in the Mediterranean Sea. The contract is expected to start in March 2018 and be completed in […]

  • Costamare Secures Financing for Containership Duo

    26 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Greece-based containership owner Costamare has secured financing for two second hand vessels, the 4,957 TEU containerships Kyparissia and Leonidio, from a Chinese financial institution. Delivered into Costamare’s fleet on May 15 and 18, respectively, the 2014-built vessels are chartered to Danish shipping giant Maersk Line for a period of seven years, through the fourth quarter of 2024. During the […]

  • Fincantieri Delivers Record Revenues and Total Backlog

    26 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Fincantieri reported a further increase in its revenues in 2018, with a record-high total backlog.

  • Panama Canal Expansion Reaches Important Milestones

    26 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Panama Canal Expansion is moving forward to achieve its goal of enhancing the waterway’s capacity in order to provide a better service to customers. To date, the Program registers a 60.4% progress. “The Panama Canal Expansion will enhance the value of the Panama route,” Panama Canal Administrator Jorge L. Quijano said. “We are focused […]

  • DP World Sokhna Receives Two STS Gantry Cranes (Egypt)

    10 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    DP World Sokhna, the Red Sea commercial gateway to Egypt’s capital Cairo, has received two new STS (ship-to-shore) gantry cranes in a further boost to productivity at the container facility operated by global marine terminal operator DP World. The two cranes, manufactured by ZPMC of China, were brought to port by the vessel Zhen-Hua 18 […]

  • Philippines: Hanjin Heavy Plans to Hire More Workers

    17 May 2012

    Helping boost the Philippines economy even through a slump in the world market, Korean shipbuilding industry leader Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction – Philippines, Inc. is set to employ thousands of additional workers in its shipyard here this year. HHIC-Phil, Inc. currently employs nearly 20,000 local employees and continues to generate more indirect job and […]

  • BP starts up Egypt’s West Nile Delta stage two production

    11 February 2019

    UK-based energy giant and LNG player BP produced first gas from the second stage of its West Nile Delta development offshore Egypt.

  • Shell and Google Owner Enter Offshore Energy Kite Venture

    12 February 2019
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Experimental wind power developer Makani, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has partnered with the energy giant Shell to bring its energy kites to offshore environments. After five years of development at X and more than a decade of development in total, Makani is now an independent company and is partnering with Shell to expand […]

  • Vattenfall Gives Reasons for Choosing Siemens Gamesa 8MW Turbine

    6 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Vattenfall has chosen the new 8MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbine for its Danish offshore wind farms because it “was simply the cheapest choice in the market measured by cost per generated megawatt-hour electricity,” Michael Simmelsgaard, Head of Offshore Wind and Country Manager for Vattenfall in Denmark, said.

  • Meyer Turku’s layoff tally hits 250 workers

    11 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy

    Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku has decided to permanently lay off additional 84 people after closing the latest phase of talks with unions, pushing the total count of job cuts to 250. As Offshore Energy – Green Marine reported in August, the first phase of the employee cooperation negotiations (YT negotiations) saw a permanent layoff of 166 […]

  • Tillerson ‘to sever all ties’ with ExxonMobil

    4 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has reached an agreement with Rex W. Tillerson, former chairman and chief executive officer, to sever all ties with the company to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements associated with his nomination as secretary of state. To remind, after the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in December 2016 elected Tillerson as his choice for secretary […]

  • Oil firms hire XPD8 Solutions for monitoring services

    20 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Asset integrity management specialist XPD8 Solutions has secured contracts worth a combined £4million for work in the North Sea and Africa and boosted its senior management team. The Aberdeen-based company has added contracts to its order book for condition monitoring services, taking it through to March 2019, for Wood Group, on behalf of Dana Petroleum, […]

  • Nordsee One and Gemini Lift Northland

    7 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Canada’s energy company Northland Power has reported CAD 93.3 million (EUR 62 million) net income for the third quarter of 2018, a 194% increase compared to CAD 31.7 million net income in the same period last year, attributed mostly to higher production at the Nordsee One offshore wind farm in Germany and higher production and wholesale market prices at the Gemini offshore wind farm in the Netherlands.