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  • Byron Energy begins loadout of Gulf of Mexico platform

    9 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Oil and gas company Byron Energy has begun the loadout of the South Marsh Island 58 G platform which would be installed in the next four weeks.

  • Nalcor Energy’s Metocean study reduces exploration uncertainty for oil and gas industry

    19 June 2015

    Nalcor Energy Oil & Gas today released the results of the first regional Metocean study for offshore Newfoundland and Labrador to the global oil and gas industry. The Metocean Study looked at seven conditions in the provinces offshore to better understand the conditions in order to reduce exploration risk and uncertainty. The study was undertaken […]

  • Update: Maersk Line Urges for Release of Maersk Tigris and Its Crew

    30 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Container shipping arm of Danish Maersk Group, Maersk Line, is insisting that Maersk Tigris and its crew are released as soon as possible. Around 24 people are reported to be aboard the Marshall Islands-flagged containership that was intercepted in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday by Iranian patrol boats. “We take comfort in the knowledge that – according […]

  • Bollinger Shipyard Launches U.S. Coast Guard’s 154-Foot Fast Response Cutter

    22 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      The U.S. Coast Guard’s second, 154-foot Fast Response Cutter, the Richard Etheridge, was launched at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, La., Thursday, marking a significant milestone in the Coast Guard’s acquisition of the Sentinel- class patrol boats. While in the water, the cutter will undergo a series of tests and evaluations prior to its planned […]

  • USA: Bollinger Gets USD 180 Million Contract Option for Four Additional FRC Vessels

    27 September 2011

    U. S. Coast Guard has awarded Bollinger shipyards four additional Fast Response Cutters (FRC) contract. This follow-on award will result in an extension of our backlog for several years, and provide jobs for over 500 Bollinger employees. “This award reflects the Coast Guard’s continued confidence in the quality products delivered by the Bollinger team, including our […]

  • World’s First Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier Enterprise Inactivated, USA

    3 December 2012

    Nearly 12,000 past and current crewmembers, family and friends attended the inactivation of aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Dec. 1, 2012, at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, recently completed its 25th and final deployment and returned to its homeport of Naval Station Norfolk for a scheduled inactivation, […]

  • The Future USS Somerset Launched from HII’s Avondale Shipyard

    17 April 2012

    The future USS Somerset (LPD 25) was launched on April 14th from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Avondale Shipyard, marking a key milestone in the ship’s construction process. LPD 25 is the ninth ship of the San Antonio class, and is named in honor of the courage of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, which […]

  • US Coast Guard Receives Its 1st Fast Response Cutter Bernard C. Webber

    14 February 2012
    Business & Finance

      The U.S. Coast Guard took delivery of its first fast response cutter, the Bernard C. Webber, Friday in Miami.Webber is the first of 58 planned Sentinel Class patrol boats replacing the Coast Guard’s venerable but aging Island Class patrol boat fleet.  “Consistent with the Sentinel Class name, the cutter Webber will guard our coasts […]

  • UK Offshore Wind Gets Doctor Who Onboard

    27 September 2017

    Actors Peter Capaldi and Emma Thompson have emerged as the famous faces supporting an offshore wind campaign in the UK, launched by a coalition of companies and civil society organisations including Greenpeace, WWF and the Marine Conservation Society.

  • SBM Offshore’s behemoth FPSO steps into Brazil to work at Petrobras’ mega deepwater field

    25 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    SBM Offshore is closing in on the first oil milestone from its new FPSO unit as the vessel has reached Brazilian waters and will be deployed at a huge field in the pre-salt Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil, where it will work for Petrobras.

  • CME to Launch Cleared Swaps for LNG (Singapore)

    13 April 2012

    CME Group said ti will launch the world’s first cleared financial derivatives contract for liquefied natural gas Monday, in a bet that burgeoning gas trading will spur demand for such instruments. The launch comes years ahead of an expected huge outflow of LNG from North America, which many in the industry view as a game-changing […]

  • Westwood sees signs of recovery in high-impact exploration activity

    4 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Project & Tenders

    Westwood is seeing a rebound in high-impact exploration this year with expectations for it to pick up in the second half.

  • Byron Sets Up South Marsh Island 71 Oil & Gas Lines

    23 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Byron Energy, the operator of the South Marsh Island 71 (SM 71) oil and gas development, has completed the installation of the 500 foot 4-inch oil and 7,000 foot 6-inch gas pipelines. Each pipeline has been laid and buried to within tie-in distance to the SM 71 F platform location and their respective sales lines. […]

  • ExxonMobil to spend more in 2017

    2 March 2017

    U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil will increase its spending this year by 16 percent compared to the previous year and start up five major upstream projects in the next two years.  ExxonMobil Corporation is positioned to succeed in any price environment by maximizing the competitive advantages of its integrated businesses and by investing in projects that generate […]

  • Kvaerner posts sharp drop in revenues

    6 November 2015

    Kvaerner, a Norway-based engineering and construction services company, has reported a sharp drop in its third quarter 2015 revenues, due to lower activity, as well as lower profit when compared to the same period last year.  According to Kvaerner’s 3Q 2015 report on Friday, its revenues in the third quarter were NOK 2.86 billion, compared with […]

  • Exxon Mobil reduces 2015 capex by 12%

    4 March 2015

    U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil today said it expects its capital expenditure for 2015 will be $34 billion in 2015 – 12 percent less than in 2014. The company further said that annual capital and exploration expenditures are expected to average less than $34 billion in 2016 and 2017. “We are capturing savings in raw materials, service, […]

  • Canada: Funds available for public engagement in offshore drilling assessment

    7 December 2018
    Infrastructure

    CEAA has made funds available to assist in participation in the regional assessment of offshore drilling east of Newfoundland and Labrador.

  • VIDEO: A football match on an Arctic rig

    8 June 2017

    This is not the first time a football reference has been made on Offshore Energy Today. We’ve had our fair share of Zinedine Zidane photos used to illustrate the articles about a namesake Norwegian offshore oil field. However, we just had to share this one. A football match on one of the world’s northernmost offshore […]

  • Exitement, drama and flat-out drag racing: the final sprint of the Velux 5 Oceans begins

    16 May 2011

      The four VELUX 5 OCEANS solo skippers yesteray showed just how fired up they are for the climax of the round the world race, all crossing the ocean sprint five start line within seconds of each other. It was more like a scene from a dinghy regatta as the four 60ft Eco 60s jostled […]

  • USA: Celebration of National Maritime Day at MARAD HQ

    23 May 2013

    The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command celebrated National Maritime Day at a ceremony co-hosted with the U.S. Maritime Administration at MARAD’s headquarters May 22. Over 200 government and maritime industry leaders and guests attended the commemoration. In 1933, Congress established May 22 as National Maritime Day. The day officially honors the contributions and sacrifices of […]

  • Royal Research Ship Discovery Named, UK

    11 October 2013

    A new, state-of-the-art research ship for UK marine science – RRS Discovery – was named by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton on Thursday, October 10. Around 200 guests, including the Science Minister David Willetts, local MPs, civic guests and senior figures from the UK’s marine science community […]

  • U.S. Coast Guard Takes Delivery of Its 1st Fast Response Cutter Bernard C. Webber

    13 February 2012

    The U.S. Coast Guard took delivery of its first fast response cutter, the Bernard C. Webber, on Friday in Miami. Webber, built by Bollinger Shipyards Inc , is the first of 58 planned Sentinel Class patrol boats replacing the Coast Guard’s venerable but aging Island Class patrol boat fleet. “Consistent with the Sentinel Class name, the […]

  • USA: Bollinger Wins Contract Option for Four Additional FRC Vessels

    27 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      U. S. Coast Guard has awarded Bollinger shipyards four additional Fast Response Cutters (FRC) contract. This follow-on award will result in an extension of our backlog for several years, and provide jobs for over 500 Bollinger employees. “This award reflects the Coast Guard’s continued confidence in the quality products delivered by the Bollinger team, including […]

  • WATCH: SBM Offshore’s largest FPSO sailing toward Brazil’s huge deepwater field

    2 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Transition

    Following departure from a Chinese yard, SBM Offshore is looking forward to the arrival of its new FPSO at a giant field in the pre-salt Santos Basin.

  • USA: HII Christens America, the First in New Class of Amphibious Assault Ships

    22 October 2012

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division on Saturday  christened the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship America (LHA 6). The ship, the first in a new class, is the fourth U.S. Navy vessel to be named America, extending a legacy dating back to 1861. Lynne Pace, wife of retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, former chairman […]