996 results found for 'western isles'

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  • OW Bunker Launches New Global Quality Control Standard

    25 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    OW Bunker, one of the world’s leading suppliers of marine fuels and lubricants, today announced the launch of a new global standard to ensure the quality of products supplied by its physical division. The move is part of strategy to drive annual global claims below 1%, an unprecedented figure in the bunker industry. Customers will […]

  • Transnet finds source of cyber threat at South African ports

    26 July 2021
    Regulation & Policy, Safety

    South African port operator Transnet has identified and isolated the source of IT disruption that halted the operations at its container terminals.

  • Board Approves Huia Domain Coastal Scheme

    22 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    A plan to reduce erosion on the Huia Domain and foreshore has been approved by the Waitākere Ranges Local Board following extensive consultation with the local community, iwi, coastal engineers and council representatives. “The first proposals over 18 months ago did not reflect how strongly the community felt about retaining this unique slice of heritage. […]

  • Indian Coast Guard Takes Over ‘ICGS Vaibhav’

    2 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    “ICGS Vaibhav”, the 90 meters class of Offshore Patrol Vessel, indigenously designed in house and built by Goa Shipyard Ltd was handed over to the Indian Coast Guard on 31st March 2013 . ICGS “Vaibhav ” is the third in the series of three OPVs built by GSL for the Indian Coast Guard. The vessel […]

  • Bergen Group Brings Its Shipbuilding Activities to a New Level

    19 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Bergen Group ASA has today entered into a Share Purchase Agreement for the group’s Shipbuilding Division with JSV Zaliv Shipyard, Ukraine (“Zaliv”), one of the leading hull construction shipyards in Central and Eastern Europe. For a purchase price of USD 18.2 million, Zaliv will acquire 51% of the shares in a newly incorporated company which will own all of […]

  • Technip clinches ‘major’ offshore job in Libya

    31 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    French oilfield services firm Technip has been contracted to work on an offshore platform at Bahr Essalam field offshore Libya. Technip says that the deal signed with the Italian oil firm Eni is a “major” one, meaning it ranges between 500 million euros and 1 billion euros. The field is located 110 kilometers off the Libyan coast, […]

  • UK: Carnegie Completes Bermuda Wave Study for CETO

    11 May 2012
    Research & Development

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announces the completion of a year-long Bermuda wave study that demonstrates the viability of the Island’s wave regime for a commercial CETO wave energy project. Over the past 12 months, Carnegie, in collaboration with Bermudian company Triton Renewable Energy Ltd, and with the technical support of the Ground […]

  • UK: Carnegie Completes Bermuda Wave Study for CETO

    11 May 2012
    Research & Development

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announces the completion of a year-long Bermuda wave study that demonstrates the viability of the Island’s wave regime for a commercial CETO wave energy project. Over the past 12 months, Carnegie, in collaboration with Bermudian company Triton Renewable Energy Ltd, and with the technical support of the Ground […]

  • New Implementation Structure for Djibouti Code of Conduct

    4 June 2014

    A high-level meeting, held at IMO Headquarters in London on May 30, agreed a resolution on future work under the Djibouti Code of Conduct. Ministers from participating States in the Code of Conduct concerning the Repression of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden (the Djibouti […]

  • Worthington Industries Buys Share in ARITAS

    7 January 2014

    Worthington Industries announced that its Pressure Cylinders segment has signed an agreement to acquire a 75% stake in ARITAS, one of Europe’s leading LNG and cryogenic technology companies offering a broad portfolio of LNG products, cryogenic vessels, systems and services. Located in Istanbul, Turkey, ARITAS employs nearly 300 people and generated sales of approximately $40 […]

  • IHES wave power prototype basks under French sun

    20 December 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    GEPS Techno’s hybrid WAVEGEM platform, combining solar and wave energy, has been inaugurated at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, ahead of next year’s sea trials at SEM-REV site in France.

  • Monjasa wraps up first marine biofuel supply in the Middle East

    5 May 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Oil and shipping company Monjasa, in collaboration with energy company Uniper and biofuel producer Neutral Fuels, has completed its first blending and supply of marine fuels in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

  • Origin Energy: Coal Seam Gas Well-Monitoring Update (Australia)

    19 October 2010

    Australia Pacific LNG has advised relevant landowners, Western Downs Regional council and the Queensland government that traces of BTEX have been found in fluid samples taken from eight exploration wells in the Surat Basin, west of Miles. Water produced from the relevant wells is contained in lined and fenced ponds and tanks for treating, as […]

  • Tidal energy has potential to provide 11% of UK’s electricity demand, analysis says

    4 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Transition, Vision

    Tidal energy has the potential to provide 11.5 GW to the UK energy system, 11% of the UK’s electricity demand, and tidal stream projects could contribute up to £17 billion to the UK economy by 2050, according to Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and Imperial College London (ICL). In 2022, ORE Catapult led a study working […]

  • Baltimore Harbor Maintenance Dredging Begins

    8 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Starting this month, crews under contract of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, will begin dredging roughly 2.6 million cubic yards of material from the Baltimore Harbor and Channels navigation project via a $25.6 million contract awarded this past fall. This dredging is being performed to ensure continued safe navigation in and out […]

  • Cammell Laird: Phenomenal Year for Ferry Work

    8 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Birkenhead shipyard and engineering services company Cammell Laird says it has developed one of the most advanced ‘bespoke environmental’ packages for ferries in the shipyard industry, following its strongest year of trading in the sector. Cammell Laird says it has docked 24 ferries between 2013 and the beginning of 2014 and, in addition, has carried […]

  • USA: Kenworth Hosts NatGas Summit in Wisconsin

    4 January 2012

    Natural gas continues to be a focus of truck operators as more than 200 Wisconsin Kenworth customers recently gathered to learn more about new available equipment and the future of natural gas in the industry. The Wisconsin Kenworth NatGas Summit, held recently at the Glacier Canyon Conference Center, featured four sessions that covered topics such […]

  • Germany: Port of Kiel Completes Norwegenkai Expansion

    23 March 2012

    Work on extending operational areas at the Port of Kiel’s Norwegenkai Terminal has now been completed. Construction was officially brought to a close at a ceremony yesterday involving the State of Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister of Economics, Science and Transport, Jost de Jager, the Mayor of the Federal State Capital of Kiel, Peter Todeskino, and Dr Dirk […]

  • Germany: Port of Kiel’s Norwegenkai Terminal Expansion Work Completed

    23 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Work on extending operational areas at the Port of Kiel’s Norwegenkai Terminal has now been completed. Construction was officially brought to a close at a ceremony today involving the State of Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister of Economics, Science and Transport, Jost de Jager, the Mayor of the Federal State Capital of Kiel, Peter Todeskino, and Dr Dirk […]

  • Hurricane Harvey prompts oil firms to evacuate 86 platforms

    26 August 2017

    Hurricane Harvey, seen as one of the strongest hurricanes in the U.S. in the last twelve years, has forced offshore oil companies to evacuate workers from 86 offshore platforms. According to info by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on, as of 11:30 Friday, oil and gas companies had evacuated offshore workers from a […]

  • GFC Upgrades Submarine Cable Network with Ciena’s GeoMesh Optical Bypass

    15 February 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Ciena® Corporation, the network specialist, announced that Global Caribbean Fiber (GCF), the main provider of network services across the Eastern Caribbean, has selected Ciena to upgrade its Antilles Crossing submarine network that connects St. Croix, St. Lucia and Barbados. With Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform powered by WaveLogic coherent optical processors and GeoMesh optical bypass, GCF […]

  • India: Cochin Shipyard Delivers SCI Yamuna

    27 November 2012

    Cochin Shipyard Limited today, on Nov. 27, handed over the new high-tech Rolls Royce Platform Supply Vessel of UT 755 CD design to Shipping Corporation of India. The vessel named SCI Yamuna is the second, in the series of two, high technology offshore vessels being built by CSL for SCI. The vessel is dually classed […]

  • Heightec Opens New Safety Centre in Leeds

    30 May 2014
    Human Capital

    Work at height specialist heightec opened its latest Height Safety Centre in Leeds. This new facility has been purpose designed to meet increasing demand for specialist training in height safety rescue and across the East of England. The Leeds centre will focus on the delivery of training for the onshore and offshore renewable sector, offering […]

  • USA: Bayou to Coat Pipelines for Shell’s Mars B Development

    18 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Aegion Corporation’s subsidiary, The Bayou Companies, LLC, has been awarded a contract to coat approximately 80 miles of 16-inch and 18-inch diameter oil and gas pipelines for the Shell Mars B deep water development. In January 2012, Bayou will begin inner-diameter coating, outer-diameter coating, concrete weight coating and anode and buckle arrestor installation for the […]

  • USA: Aegion Wins Pipe Coating Contract for Shell Mars B Deep Water Development

    16 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Aegion Corporation announced that its subsidiary, The Bayou Companies, LLC, has been awarded a contract to coat approximately 80 miles of 16-inch and 18-inch diameter oil and gas pipelines for the Shell Mars B deep water development. In January 2012, Bayou will begin inner-diameter coating, outer-diameter coating, concrete weight coating and anode and buckle arrestor […]