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  • Flex LNG building market presence, eyes more FSRU projects

    28 August 2017

    Oslo-listed Flex LNG, the company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen and an emerging player in the LNG shipping business, is building its market presence as it awaits the delivery of six liquefied natural gas carriers set for deliveries over the next two years. Flex LNG currently has six M-type, Electronically Controlled, Gas Injection (MEGI) LNG […]

  • A2SEA Story: Coastal Challenges Borkum Riffgrund 1

    22 September 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    For CT Offshore, planning Borkum Riffgrund 1 from a cabling installation point of view has required more than a little creativity. For A2SEA, getting to and from DONG Energy’s Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm development, located 45 km off the German coast, is pretty much a straight-lined round trip from the port of Esbjerg in Denmark, […]

  • New ferry port plan gains support

    5 March 2009

    A £70m plan for a new port on the route linking Scotland to Northern Ireland has been backed by councillors. Stena Line wants to move its Irish Sea services out of Stranraer and along the coast to Old House Point in order to cut journey times and fuel costs.

  • Denmark and Germany sign Bornholm Energy Island agreement, first legally binding cooperation on joint offshore renewable energy project in EU

    2 June 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, and Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, Lars Aagaard, have signed an agreement for the Bornholm Energy Island in the Baltic Sea. This is the first legally binding cooperation agreement in Europe on a joint offshore energy project under the EU Renewable Energy Directive. The new […]

  • State Officials Welcome Deepwater Milestone

    28 July 2015

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper joined Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo, the state’s congressional delegation and representatives of Deepwater Wind – the project developers – in celebrating an historic “steel in the water” milestone for America’s first commercial scale offshore wind […]

  • Final Section of Giant Aircraft Carrier Leaves BAE Systems

    17 June 2013

    The final section of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two new aircraft carriers being built for the UK Royal Navy, has left BAE Systems’ shipyard at Scotstoun today to embark on a 600 mile journey to Rosyth. The Aft Island, also known as Upper Block 14, is the air traffic control tower of the […]

  • Providence Resources could spud Newgrange prospect in 2019 or 2020

    15 October 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Providence Resources has completed a site survey on the FEL 6/14 license off Ireland, which contains the Newgrange prospect.

  • Shell makes further cuts in UK

    25 May 2016

    Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has increased its target for layoffs in 2016 by 2,200 jobs due to prolonged weak oil price environment. As a result, 475 jobs will be cut in Shell’s UK Upstream and Ireland business. According to Shell’s statement on Wednesday, the company’s staff have been informed about the progress being made […]

  • SELKIE tool debuts at Wales’ national marine energy test site

    23 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    The team behind Wales’ national marine energy test facility, META, has welcomed the first deployment of a new open-source tool to measure high quality turbulence data in its pre-consented test site in Milford Haven.

  • Denmark: As two OWFs from 2018 Energy Agreement move forward, third is now part of much bigger plans

    2 October 2020
    Authorities & Government, Outlook & Strategy

    Of the three offshore wind farms that Denmark decided to tender as of this year in its Energy Agreement from 2018, the last one planned to be offered for development has recently been added to the 5 GW offshore energy islands plan in a new Energy Agreement in 2020. The two energy islands are expected […]

  • Chevron evacuates offshore workers. Storm heads to Texas

    16 June 2015

    A weather formation that was threatening to turn into a tropical storm over the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, did just that. It has been named Tropical Storm Bill, and it is now on its way to Texas. Offshore Energy Today, citing Reuters, yesterday reported that Shell had evacuated non-essential personnel from its offshore facilities in the […]

  • Croatian FSRU’s regas overhaul completed at Turkish shipyard

    15 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance

    The floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) serving Croatia’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the island of Krk has been upgraded in Türkiye.

  • Galway Confirmed As Irish Stopover

    17 May 2007

    The west coast Irish port of Galway will be the stopover for the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race following the Irish Government’s announcement this week that it had agreed to make funding available to help bring the race to Ireland for the first time. Race organisers welcomed the Irish commitment of up to eight million Euros […]

  • Virus nightmare on luxury ship

    2 June 2006

    A Northern Ireland family have spoken of their “nightmare” aboard a luxury cruise ship hit by a vomiting virus. The Sea Princess will return to Southampton on Friday and miss out the intended destination of Lisbon, to allow extra time to disinfect the ship. More than 2,000 passengers aboard the ship have been forced to […]

  • DMEC & IRO Push for Marine Energy Coop with Offshore Sector

    25 June 2019
    Business & Finance, Technology

    DMEC (Dutch Marine Energy Centre) organizes together with IRO (Association of Dutch Suppliers in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry and Offshore Renewable Industry) a workshop to identify collaboration opportunities between the offshore supply chain and ocean energy technology companies. The workshop is carried out as an initiative of the OPIN (Ocean Power Innovation Network) […]

  • Major Restoration Project Complete in Louisiana

    4 February 2020
    Business & Finance

    The $18.7 million Queen Bess Island restoration project is now officially complete – making the Brown Pelican habitat ready for the 2020 nesting season. Standing on the shore of a remote island in Louisiana’s Barataria Basin, Gov. John Bel Edwards yesterday declared the newly-restored island officially reopened for nesting. “Before we started this restoration last […]

  • Oceanteam step into developing, installing and owning offshore power grids

    6 December 2007

    Oceanteam ASA announced today that it has merged its Hydragrid business with IMERA Power. At the same time IMERA Power announced today that it has been awarded a license by UK Regulator OFGEM to build two underwater interconnectors between the Republic of Ireland and Wales, UK. The commercial terms between the parties are confidential.

  • Columbia River Final EA Released

    3 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just released the final environmental assessment (EA) for continued maintenance of the Columbia River federal navigation channel. The maintenance includes placement of dredged material on the eastern shoreline of Rice Island and re-handling material at an in-water site near Howard Island. USACE will place material on the eastern end […]

  • Ampelmann to provide winterized gangways for Sakhalin-2

    18 April 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Dutch offshore access solutions provider Ampelmann has signed an agreement with the Sakhalin Energy consortium to provide its offshore access solutions for the Sakhalin-2 field. Under the agreement, Ampelmann will deliver the winterized version of the motion compensated gangway system which will, according to Ampelmann, allow the transfer of work crew at temperatures of up to -28 degrees. […]

  • Wintershall gets nod for well intervention work on Vega

    7 April 2016

    German crude oil and natural gas producer, Wintershall, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use two Island Offshore’s vessels on the Vega field, in the North Sea.  Island Offshore’s two well intervention vessels, Island Wellserver and Island Frontier, will be used for intervention work on the wells in the Vega field that lies north of […]

  • USA: Atlantic Coast DEA Available for Review, Corps Says

    4 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, announced the availability of the Draft Hurricane Sandy Limited Re-evaluation Report – Atlantic Coast of Long Island, Jones Inlet to East Rockaway Inlet, Long Beach Island, New York, Storm Damage Reduction Project (DHSLRR). The Draft Environmental Assessment Atlantic Coast of Long Island, Jones Inlet to East […]

  • Weeks Marine Bags 112.8 Million MsCIP Deal

    8 August 2018
    Business & Finance

    Weeks Marine Inc., headquartered in Cranford, NJ, has won an $112.8 million contract for the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP), comprehensive barrier island restoration plan and Ship Island Project – Phase Two. Bids for this project were solicited via the Internet with three received, reports the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Work will be performed in Ship Island, […]

  • Malaysian Sand Issues

    5 August 2010

    The causeway linking Singapore to the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula is normally clogged with cars and trucks making the short international journey, but things got particularly bad on Feb. 1, when traffic came to a grinding halt. Thirty-seven trucks were abandoned where they stood on the Malaysian side, just yards away from a […]

  • Durrat, $150m dredging contract

    6 July 2005

    Durrat Al Bahrain has signed a $150m agreement with Durrat Al Bahrain and Great Lakes-Nass for reclamation, dredging and shore protection for the second and final phase of the project, reported Gulf Daily News. The work is expected to be finished within two years. Durrat Al Bahrain is co-owned by Kuwait Finance House and the […]

  • RV Celtic Explorer in First Trans-Atlantic Mapping Survey

    17 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The first trans-Atlantic mapping survey has been announced and it’s to take place under the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance. The announcement was made by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney T.D., Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, and Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in […]