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  • Hess shaves off $800 million of its budget for 2020

    17 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    In light of the current low oil price environment and market volatility, U.S. oil and gas company Hess Corporation has revealed a plan for a significant reduction to its 2020 capital and exploratory budget. 

  • SgurrEnergy Completes One Year Wind Measurement Campaign Offshore Hong Kong

    9 May 2013

    SgurrEnergy has concluded a one year wind measurement campaign, conducted on the first Offshore Risk Quantification Analysis (ORQA) platform, located near Lamma Island, Hong Kong. The measurement campaign, which began in March 2012, was carried out on behalf of The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. (HK Electric), which is looking to develop a 90-100MW offshore wind […]

  • Four-year saga comes to an end as operator pleads guilty in Hibernia oil spill case

    2 August 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The company operating the Hibernia platform off the coast of St. John’s has pled guilty in relation to the 2019 oil spill from this platform.

  • Workers clearing out as Tropical Storm Beta forms in Gulf of Mexico

    21 September 2020
    Environment, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Offshore workers have started clearing out from Gulf of Mexico platforms as Beta, the 23rd named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the Bay of Campeche.

  • USA: Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyer Starts Maiden Voyage

    2 September 2011

    The newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, the future USS Spruance (DDG 111), sailed away from the Bath Iron Works​ shipyard in Bath, Maine Sept. 1 on its maiden voyage to her commissioning site in Key West, Fla. before heading to her eventual homeport of San Diego, Calif. This milestone marks the government and industry teams’ […]

  • Ireland’s Ocean Energy Test Facility Lir Opens

    21 January 2019
    Research & Development

    Ireland’s ocean energy test facility, Lir, was officially opened by Simon Coveney, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. The facilities at Lir include four wave tanks, which can replicate real ocean conditions and enable testing of various marine innovations, technologies and structures at different scales. In addition to the ocean test infrastructure, Lir also […]

  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Pushes for LNG Exports

    21 January 2013

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce continued its push for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, following President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue’s remarks recently during his annual State of American Business Address. Donohue declared that USA has a historic opportunity to develop more American energy swiftly and responsibly. “We are now in a position to export […]

  • Report: $41 billion in oil & gas deals in 1Q 2014

    17 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    PLS Inc., a leading Houston-based research, transaction and advisory firm, in conjunction with its international partner Derrick Petroleum Services, reports that global upstream oil and gas M&A activity for Q1 2014 totaled $40.7 billion spread across 192 transactions (including 133 with deal value disclosed)

  • New Jersey to develop first purpose-built offshore wind port in US

    17 June 2020
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    The US State of New Jersey plans to build the New Jersey Wind Port on the eastern shore of the Delaware River, with the construction expected to begin in 2021. The New Jersey Wind Port is described as a first-in-the-nation infrastructure investment that will provide a location for staging, assembly, and manufacturing activities related to […]

  • Smulders Wins EOWDC Foundations Contract

    31 January 2017
    Technology

    Smulders Projects has won a contract to manufacture and assemble suction bucket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC). The company will manufacture lower parts of jacket structures and carry out the final assembly of the 11 foundations at its manufacturing facility in Newcastle which Smulders acquired from fabricator, OGN Group, at the end […]

  • Oil majors begin evacuations, shutdowns as storm Sally approaches

    14 September 2020
    Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Several oil majors have evacuated personnel from their Gulf of Mexico facilities ahead of the incoming tropical storm Sally, which is expected to turn into a Category 2 hurricane.

  • Ireland Launches Marine Renewables Research Centre Worth EUR 29.5 Mln

    18 November 2013
    Authorities & Government, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    Irish Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock, T.D. officially launched the Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) SFI Research Centre on November 15 at University College Cork (UCC). The Centre will receive funding of €19million from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) with a further €10.5 million from 45 […]

  • SBM Offshore taking over Brazilian FPSO while MISC grabs Malaysian one as stakes in two units change hands

    6 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    SBM Offshore has made arrangements to exchange ownership interests related to two floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels with Malaysia’s shipping giant MISC Berhad (MISC).

  • Pancontinental: Second 2D survey off Namibia ends

    28 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Pancontinental Oil & Gas NL advises that a second seismic survey acquisition of 1,000km of 2D data has now been completed within its highly prospective offshore acreage in licence area EL 0037 offshore Namibia, southwest Africa. The 2D acquisition extends to the south beyond a recently completed 3D survey of approximately 3,000km2 and provides infill […]

  • Ship recycling sector in Türkiye faces renewed scrutiny amid recent incidents

    15 July 2025
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    The ship recycling industry in Türkiye has seen a wave of developments in recent months, drawing renewed scrutiny over safety practices, transparency, and environmental oversight, the Belgium-based NGO Shipbreaking Platform has shared. According to the organization, the spotlight is once again on Aliağa, where controversies regarding the sale of shipbreaking yards, the arrival of a […]

  • Stake in Brazilian offshore fields opens doors to Latin American oil & gas arena for US player

    22 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Westlawn is entering Latin America’s oil and gas playground, thanks to a deal with Enauta for the acquisition of a partial stake in two oil fields offshore Brazil.

  • Hibernia oil spill case goes to court three years after it took place

    6 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Canadian regulator has brought charges against the company operating the Hibernia platform due to an oil spill, which occurred in July 2019.

  • Chevron trims 2020 spending plan by $4 billion

    24 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Chevron has made a decision to reduce its 2020 capital spending plan by $4 billion thereby joining many of its peers in drastic measures to mitigate the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent plunge in oil prices. 

  • USA: GT Nexus Takes Action to Support Maersk Line’s Call for Change in Shipping Industry

    1 September 2011
    Business & Finance

      The GT Nexus Shipper Council, a customer community of the world’s biggest importers and exporters, announced that it has engaged Maersk Line in response to the ocean carrier’s recently announced “Manifesto,” which calls for changes in the way carriers and shippers conduct their business. The Shipper Council is also working with executives at other […]

  • Environmentalists Call Governor Cuomo to go Green (USA)

    7 October 2011
    Authorities & Government

    Environmentalists and clean energy supporters are calling on Governor Cuomo to replace power from the Indian Point Energy Center with clean energy resources, including solar power, onshore wind, energy efficiency initiatives, and especially large-scale offshore wind power, if he is successful in his quest to close Indian Point. In a letter endorsed by the Alliance […]

  • Pacific Drilling improves in first quarter but expects challenging times ahead

    8 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Despite posting a loss in the first quarter of the year, offshore drilling contractor Pacific Drilling has had an overall better first quarter than the one in the year prior, but the company is preparing itself for ‘challenging times’ ahead.

  • Cape Wind to Base Operations HQ at Falmouth Harbor, USA

    24 August 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    Cape Wind has announced that it will base its operations headquarters on Falmouth Harbor on Cape Cod, creating 50 new permanent jobs. Cape Wind President Jim Gordon said: “Cape and Islanders once lit the lamps of the world by harvesting whale oil. Pretty soon, every morning, workers will leave from Falmouth Harbor to harness the […]

  • WIND FARM UPDATE

    13 July 2015

    Race Bank DONG Energy signed a contract with Belgian contractor Jan de Nul during the EWA OFFSHORE event in March for the installation of the export cables for the 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm. The full scope includes around 148km of cables to interconnect the 2 offshore substations and to connect each of them […]

  • Cape Wind to Base Operations HQ at Falmouth Harbor, USA

    24 August 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    Cape Wind has announced that it will base its operations headquarters on Falmouth Harbor on Cape Cod, creating 50 new permanent jobs. Cape Wind President Jim Gordon said: “Cape and Islanders once lit the lamps of the world by harvesting whale oil. Pretty soon, every morning, workers will leave from Falmouth Harbor to harness the […]

  • USA: Telemark, Clipper Results Excite ATP

    8 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    ATP Oil & Gas Corporation yesterday announced an operations update: Drilling operations at the fourth Telemark Hub well at Mississippi Canyon (MC) Block 942 #2 are complete. ATP encountered 167 feet of new net pay sands above pre-drill estimates. These sands are in addition to the 72 feet of logged net oil pay seen in […]