996 results found for 'western isles'

996 results found for 'western isles'
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  • Wood scores North Sea extension trifecta worth $118 million

    7 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The UK-based engineering and consulting company Wood has secured three reimbursable contract extensions, allowing it to continue working with Shell UK, Dana Petroleum, and CNOOC International in the North Sea.

  • Proposed North Sea oil project makes progress but UK urged to mend its fiscal ways

    4 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Given the need to secure future investments in domestic energy, the UK is being asked to change its current fiscal and regulatory regime related to its oil and gas policy, as NEO NEXT Energy and its partners, Serica Energy and Jersey Oil & Gas (JOG), take steps to move forward with a proposed oil redevelopment project in the North Sea.

  • Second oil tanker fire in recent months leads to 10 fatalities at Indonesian shipyard

    17 October 2025
    Safety

    Ten workers have lost their lives and several have sustained injuries in a fire at a floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit undergoing maintenance at a shipyard in Indonesia.

  • FSO fire claims four lives, injures five in Indonesia

    26 June 2025
    Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Four workers have lost their lives in a fire at an oil tanker undergoing repair works at a shipyard in Indonesia.

  • Puzzle coming together for Western Isles’ link to Scottish national electricity transmission network

    18 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vision

    Scottish transmission system operator (TSO) SSEN Transmission has submitted a planning application for a project that encompasses the construction of the converter station and substation for a subsea link that will connect the Western Isles to the national electricity transmission network for the first time. The planning application, submitted to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, is […]

  • Teamleiter Controlling Erneuerbare Energien (w/m/d)

    17 September 2025

    Über das Unternehmen Wir suchen Menschen, die an die positive Kraft von Energie glauben und an ihre eigene Stärke, Dinge voranzubringen. Die wissen, wie wichtig Energie und Infrastruktur sind und wie groß die Möglichkeiten, mit ihnen Zukunft für alle zu gestalten. Denn wir sind genauso: Ein großes, tatkräftiges Unternehmen, das die Tür weit aufmacht für […]

  • Maritime giants unveil guidelines to net zero for Ro-Ro vessels

    26 May 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels

    Global Ro-Ro Community (GRC), a joint initiative supporting the decarbonization of roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) ocean freight transportation, recently unveiled guidelines for calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity levels for cargo vessels. As informed, the Global Ro-Ro Community consisting of Japan’s maritime sector titans Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Eastern Car Liner, […]

  • GCMD project affirms B24 biofuel blend can power vessels over the long haul

    18 September 2025
    Collaboration, Environment, Research & Development, Safety, Transition, Vessels

    The Singapore-based Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) has released a new report detailing the effects of continuous utilization of biofuels during ship operations. The project titled LOTUS (Long-term impact of continuous use of biofuels on vessel operations) was carried out in collaboration with Japanese shipping titan Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line). The partnership […]

  • Prysmian hires NextGeo for bomb hunt at first UK-Germany energy link

    14 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Safety

    Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has awarded compatriot Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with a contract for potential unexploded ordnance (pUXO) identification and clearance along the route of NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link between the UK and Germany. The contract covers the execution of pUXO identification and clearance […]

  • MSC Cruises launches LNG-powered MSC World America in Miami

    14 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    MSC Cruises, part of Switzerland-based shipping major MSC Group, has held a naming ceremony for its LNG-powered cruise ship MSC World America at the line’s new MSC Miami Cruise Terminal.

  • UK’s fiscal and regulatory hurdles pull the plug on FPSO buy as North Sea oil project awaits policy reset

    10 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    A deal for an FPSO, picked for an oil redevelopment project in the North Sea, has been taken off the table as New European Offshore (NEO Energy) and its partners, Serica Energy and Jersey Oil & Gas (JOG), continue to wait clarity on the fiscal and regulatory woes arising from the UK’s current oil and gas policy conundrums.

  • Saipem tweaks terms for 7th-gen drillship’s stay in its rig fleet

    15 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Saipem has taken steps to make changes to a deal outlining the duration a chartered seventh-generation drillship will spend in its rig fleet.

  • Oil & gas price uptick and vessel rerouting as Israel-Iran conflict keeps markets on edge

    17 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition

    A spike in crude oil prices and tweaks to ships’ regular routes are some of the key indicators of uncertainty enveloping energy and shipping markets in the wake of Israel’s attack on Iran, as both countries turn off their giant offshore hydrocarbon production taps for safety reasons.

  • Shell expands LNG portfolio with acquisition of Singaporean firm

    1 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Shell Eastern Trading has completed the acquisition of Singapore-based energy solutions provider Pavilion Energy, a subsidiary of Temasek.

  • UK partners on the lookout for fiscal and regulatory clarity before speeding up North Sea oil project

    3 March 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    NEO Energy and its partners, Serica Energy and Jersey Oil & Gas (JOG), are still waiting for the fiscal and regulatory uncertainty surrounding the UK’s oil and gas scene to clear up, once the government wraps up its environmental guidance revamp for oil and gas projects, to move full steam ahead with their oil redevelopment project in the North Sea.

  • Western Isles to Western Sahara?

    15 January 2008

    The crew of a Western Isles trawler will decide in the next few weeks whether to return to the northwest coast of Africa to fish. They spent a trial period sailing out of the port of Dhakla in southern Morocco late last year because their EU fishing quota was too small.

  • Western Isles Reinforcing Power Network

    8 June 2015
    Storage

    Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD) is establishing a Western Isles renewable energy steering group. The group, which will include representatives from the Comhairle, developers and Community Energy Scotland, will explore opportunities for making best use of the existing electricity network and for connecting additional renewables on the islands ahead of network reinforcement. It […]

  • Western Isles Reinforcing Power Network

    8 June 2015
    Storage

    Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD) is establishing a Western Isles renewable energy steering group. The group, which will include representatives from the Comhairle, developers and Community Energy Scotland, will explore opportunities for making best use of the existing electricity network and for connecting additional renewables on the islands ahead of network reinforcement. It […]

  • VIDEO: Western Isles FPSO reaches Rotterdam

    13 April 2017
    Infrastructure

    The Western Isles FPSO, destined for the Dana-operated offshore project in the UK, has reached Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

  • Western Isles reach full grid capacity

    8 June 2015
    Authorities & Government, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    With the Western Isles grid now operating at full capacity, Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD) together with representatives from the Comhairle, developers and Community Energy Scotland has set to explore alternative and innovative ways by which to connect additional renewables in the Islands. The joint effort has resulted with the establishment of Western […]

  • PHOTO: Western Isles FPSO launched in China

    9 February 2017
    Infrastructure

    China’s Cosco Shipyard on Thursday held a launching ceremony for Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles FPSO.  According to Cosco, which built the floating production storage and offloading unit, the ceremony was held on Thursday in Qidong, China. Cosco said the FPSO would „soon be towed“ to the North Sea, where it will be used by Dana […]

  • Dana installs pipeline for Western Isles Project

    20 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Dana Petroleum’s gas export-import pipeline for the Western Isles Development Project has been successfully installed onto the seabed.

  • Politician calls for WES to be based on Western Isles

    4 March 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    A call has been made for Wave Energy Scotland to be located on Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland by Western Isles Labour candidate Alasdair Morrison. The politician argues that this should be done in order to prevent Lewis from becoming ‘another distant quango living off peripheral resources.’ Morrison notes that the wave and tidal companies that […]

  • Cosco launches Dana’s Western Isles FPSO

    17 February 2014

    Dana Petroleum has recently celebrated a milestone achievement on its flagship Western Isles Development Project (WIDP) with the hull launch of the floating production, storage offloading vessel (FPSO) in China. The project achieved more than 1.5 million man hours incident-free during construction at the COSCO shipyard in Qidong, China, where the FPSO is being built. […]

  • Keel Laying Ceremony for Dana’s Western Isles FPSO

    28 May 2013

    The keel laying of the floating, storage, production and offloading vessel (FPSO) marks a major milestone for Dana’s Western Isles project. Dana and its partner Cieco are investing $1.6 billion in a nine-well development of two oil fields called Harris and Barra in the Northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands and 12km west […]