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  • Statoil hires ‘Island Frontier’ for well plugging gig

    4 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Island Frontier for preparatory well-plugging work at Statfjord Øst and Sleipner Øst in the North Sea.  Statoil has received consent to use Island Frontier, which is a well-intervention vessel, for work preparatory to subsequent permanent plugging of four wells, two at Statfjord […]

  • Falkland Islands: FIH Supports FOGL’s Exploration Campaign

    13 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Yesterday, on 12 January 2012, Falkland Islands Holdings plc (FIH) agreed to participate in the placing of new shares by FOGL by subscribing for 2 million new shares. The £860,000 cost of the shares will be met from the Group’s existing cash resources and the purchase will be undertaken by the Group’s Falkland based subsidiary, […]

  • Gulf Island Fabrication bags jacket construction deal

    3 July 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc., a Houston-based fabricator of offshore drilling and production platforms, has signed a contract with an oil and gas company with operations in Trinidad for the fabrication of a jacket and piles for one of its offshore locations. According to the company’s press release, the contract was signed through its subsidiary Gulf Island […]

  • Island Offshore cuts working hours, avoids layoffs

    23 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian offshore vessels owner Island Offshore is introducing reduced working hours for all office employees in Ulsteinvik, starting August 1, 2015, in order to reduce costs. The company has explained this is being done to mitigate the implications of the weak offshore market, lay up of vessels as well as postponed new building deliveries. Island Offshore has […]

  • Island Offshore launches new PSV in Romania (Gallery)

    21 May 2015

    Norwegian offshore vessels provider, Island Offshore, has launched its new Platform Supply Vessel, (PSV) “Island Discoverer” at Vard Braila shipyard in Romania. The 86 meters long PSV is the sixth ship of UT 717 design in the Island Offshore fleet. According to Island Offshore, the vessel will soon be off to Vard Brevik yard in […]

  • Island Offshore Awarded LWI Job by Premier Oil

    29 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore, a Norway-based Light Well Intervention (LWI) specialist, has been selected by Premier Oil UK Limited to undertake a new LWI service contract on the UK Continental Shelf.   Premier, a growing oil and gas exploration and production company, awarded the business to Island Offshore and the North Sea RLWI Alliance, the operator of three […]

  • Norway: Statoil Gets Clearance to Use Island Constructor

    3 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has received consent to use the Island Constructor mobile facility in the northern part of the North Sea and in the Norwegian Sea. The consent relates to implementation of light well intervention on Oseberg, Gullfaks, Vigdis, Tordis and Kristin. The planned start-up of the intervention work is in November 2011, and the estimated duration […]

  • Shell Puts into Use Two Inland LNG Tankers

    12 April 2013

    Yesterday Shell put two inland shipping tankers into use which run on LNG. The 110-metre long ships are ‘single fuel’: they only use one type of fuel, LNG. This not just a first for Shell in the Netherlands, but also for the inland shipping industry. From April 11 the two tankers will sail between Rotterdam […]

  • IMO Tables Marshall Islands Proposal on CO2 Target

    14 May 2015
    Rules & Regulation

    The International Maritime Organization (IMO) decided on Wednesday to postpone the discussion on the setting of a new global target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, proposed by the Marshall Islands. The Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, Tony de Brum, introduced the proposal yesterday saying that 2015 must be the year of action. […]

  • Coal Ship Sank Off Co To Island, Vietnam

    20 December 2011

      After a coal ship sank off the island of Co To in northern Quang Ninh Province yesterday, three crew members died while six others remained missing. Huong Dien 09 ship, with nine crew members aboard, sank in an area approximately 49 nautical miles southeast of Ha Long Bay following a break-down of the ship’s […]

  • OMV takes Island Innovator rig for Wisting well

    27 June 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore driller Island Drilling Company has been awarded a drilling contract with the Austrian oil firm OMV in Norway.  The contract is for one well at the Wisting license, located in PL 537 in the Barents Sea, with the rig Island Innovator. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of this year, Island Drilling said […]

  • Island Drilling makes restructuring move to survive downturn

    16 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    After finding itself in dire straits, the Norwegian offshore drilling contractor Island Drilling ASA has made a decision to take on financial restructuring, which will involve a change from a public to a private company. Island Drilling was formed in 2006 by industry veterans and the well intervention player, Island Offshore, which owns the biggest chunk […]

  • Lundin to drill Edvard Grieg appraisal with ‘Island Innovator’

    30 January 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Oil company Lundin has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to carry out exploration drilling on the Edvard Grieg field, off Norway, with the Island Innovator rig.  Lundin is the operator of the Edvard Grieg field, in the North Sea, around 140 kilometers west-southwest of Stavanger. The field is one of the largest oil […]

  • Ulstein delivers construction vessel Island Venture (GALLERY)

    18 January 2017

    Norwegian offshore shipbuilder and designer Ulstein has delivered the Island Venture offshore construction vessel (OCV) to a joint venture between Edison Chouest Offshore and Island Offshore. Ulstein delivered the vessel on Tuesday and said that it was the largest offshore construction vessel from Ulstein Verft so far. According to the contract signed by Ulstein and Island Ventures II […]

  • Carnival to operate Tenerife cruise terminal in Canary Islands

    5 December 2018

    Carnival Corporation reached an agreement with the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to be the first concession-holder to operate the Canary Islands’ and Mid Atlantic’s newest cruise terminal.

  • Wave consortium bids to power island off Massachusetts

    14 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    A newly formed multidisciplinary consortium is looking to harness the energy of the waves to provide additional power supply for the Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts.

  • Dutch plan floating islands powered by waves and tides

    14 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) has tested the concept for floating mega island which could be powered by tidal and wave energy.

  • UK gov to act in favour of Scottish islands’ renewables

    24 August 2015
    Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The UK government is being urged to fulfill its commitment to ‘enable the deployment of renewable energy on the Scottish Islands.’ Fergus Ewing, Scottish Energy Minister, has written to the Secretary of State for Energy, Amber Rudd, ahead of the Scottish Islands Delivery Forum which will meet in Glasgow on September 21. Rudd had previously […]

  • OTE Corp to build OTEC plant in Virgin Islands

    21 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE) has received a permit to construct an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) power plant in the Virgin Islands of the United States.

  • Damen launches LNG-powered inland shipping tanker

    6 March 2015
    Vessels

    Damen Shipyards Group said it has launched the first LNG-powered Damen EcoLiner inland shipping tanker at its Romanian yard.

  • Block Island OWF Construction Officially Kicks Off

    27 April 2015

    Today, Deepwater Wind is set to officially start the construction phase of its Block Island offshore wind farm, according to Providence Journal. The construction start will be celebrated at Specialty Diving Services, a company which will manufacture components of the foundation substructures for Block Island OWF’s wind turbines. Steel jacket structures for five offshore wind foundations are being built […]

  • Block Island OWF Construction Officially Kicks Off

    27 April 2015

    Today, Deepwater Wind is set to officially start the construction phase of its Block Island offshore wind farm, according to Providence Journal. The construction start will be celebrated at Specialty Diving Services, a company which will manufacture components of the foundation substructures for Block Island OWF’s wind turbines. Steel jacket structures for five offshore wind foundations are being built […]

  • Multinational wave energy project launches in Canary Islands

    19 September 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The project bringing together companies and organizations from several countries under the joint objective of improving the performance of wave energy technologies has been officially launched in Spain.

  • FERC denies Elba Island Liquefaction rehearing request

    16 December 2016

    The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denied Sierra Club’s request for rehearing of the order authorizing construction of the Elba Island export plant in Georgia.

  • Cayman Islands Pushes Ahead with Cruise Facility Plans

    29 October 2015

    The Cayman Islands Prime Minister Alden McLaughlin confirmed on Wednesday that his Cabinet has given the green light for a USD 150 million cruise berthing facility in George Town Harbour to allow for bigger cruise ships to visit the islands. “I am pleased to confirm that yesterday Cabinet formally approved the cruise berthing facility recommendations regarding […]