996 results found for 'western isles'

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  • Norway: Atlantic Offshore Places Order for Havyard’s Next Generation Standby Vessel

    28 June 2012

    The Fosnavag-based Havyard Group AS was today officially unveiled as supplier of a Havyard 820 design for the shipping company Atlantic Offshore. Atlantic Offshore is located at Sotra just outside Bergen and has a fleet of 22 vessels. The company has around 580 employees. The vessel is a standby vessel or FSV (Field Support Vessel), […]

  • Norway: Havyard to Design Field Support Vessel for Atlantic Offshore

    28 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    The Fosnavag-based Havyard Group AS was today officially unveiled as supplier of a Havyard 820 design for the shipping company Atlantic Offshore. Atlantic Offshore is located at Sotra just outside Bergen and has a fleet of 22 vessels. The company has around 580 employees. The vessel is a standby vessel or FSV (Field Support Vessel), […]

  • Seismic signals indicating possible explosion recorded near Balticconnector gas pipeline

    16 October 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Safety

    Seismic signals have been recorded in the vicinity of the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, indicating a possible explosion had occurred around the time an unusual drop in pressure was observed. To remind, Balticconnector was shut down at midnight on October 8 after Finnish and Estonian transmission system operators (TSOs) Gasgrid and Elering observed an abnormal […]

  • Atlantic Offshore Orders Field Support Vessel from Havyard (Norway)

    28 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Atlantic Offshore chose a Havyard design when securing a North Sea agreement with the France-based international oil and gas corporation Total. The Fosnavåg-based Havyard Group AS was today officially unveiled as supplier of a Havyard 820 design for the shipping company Atlantic Offshore. Atlantic Offshore is located at Sotra just outside Bergen and has a […]

  • ELA Offshore again Platinum Sponsor of Offshore Energy

    20 September 2017

    ELA Container Offshore GmbH will again be participating at the Offshore Energy 2017 in Amsterdam. The exhibition will take place on 10th and 11th of October 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Hall 1 at booth #111, ELA Offshore will be exhibiting a two story Offshore Accommodation Complex to demonstrate one of the many configuration possibilities […]

  • BMT to Launch Two New Platform Design Concepts at DSEI 2013

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    BMT Defence Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, is going to launch two innovative, new platform design concepts at DSEI 2013. Both the BMT Venator®-110 Multi-Mission Reconfigurable Warship and the Vidar®-7 Small Modern SSK Submarine have been developed to deliver maximum capability, flexibility and longevity within the limitations of current fiscal constraints. BMT has […]

  • PSA Pinpoints Diving Umbilicals Safety

    16 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    In a circular to the industry, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has clarified matters relating to the length of diving umbilicals for manned underwater operations. Over the last two years, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has noted that operating companies and diving contractors have increasingly used diving umbilicals that are significantly longer than […]

  • Sigma Offshore Expert to Give Talk at Asia-Pacific FPSO Summit (Singapore)

    11 March 2011

      A worldwide authority on the offshore industry will be one of the speakers at a key event for oil and gas production vessels in Singapore next week (March 15-16, 2011). David Galbraith, chief technology officer at Aberdeen-based Sigma Offshore, will give a presentation at the third annual Asia-Pacific FPSO Summit 2011 on the qualification […]

  • Tideland Lights and Fog Signals for Ormonde Wind Farm (UK)

    15 September 2011
    Technology

      Tideland Signal has supplied Burntisland Fabrications (BiFab) of Fife with the first aids to navigation to warn shipping in the vicinity of the new Ormonde windfarm currently under construction 10Km off Barrow-in-Furness in the Irish Sea. The Tideland equipment is supplied in kit form ready to install on turbines in accordance with IALA 0-139, […]

  • Alabama Port applies for federal grant to support emissions-reduction efforts

    17 June 2024
    Ports & Logistics

    The Alabama Port Authority has applied for a federal grant to launch a major emissions reduction effort at port facilities. 

  • EIA: Multiple Factors Push Western Europe to Use Less Gas

    27 September 2013

    In contrast to the United States, natural gas consumption in OECD-Europe has been generally declining since 2011, and coal consumption has been generally increasing. A confluence of supply and demand factors, in both the natural gas and coal markets, as well as other economic constraints, have contributed to this phenomenon. OECD European gross domestic product […]

  • WATCH: EPS, GCMD and GoodFuels team up on third biofuel supply chain trial

    15 August 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Rules & Regulation, Transition, Vessels

    The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) has bunkered the third supply chain of a biofuel blend as part of its pilot to develop a quality, quantity and GHG abatement assurance framework for drop-in green fuels. Partnering with Singapore-based tonnage provider Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS), the bunkering took place on July 24. This GCMD-led trial […]

  • Report: Dead turtles, dolphins washing ashore amid impact from X-Press Pearl’s sinking

    6 July 2021
    Authorities & Government, Environment, Vessels

    Dozens of sea turtles and dolphins are washing ashore in Sri Lanka as a result of suspected poisoning by toxins released from X-Press Pearl’s cargo. It is estimated that these toxins claimed the lives of 176 turtles, 20 dolphins, and four whales, Sri Lanka’s deputy solicitor general, Madawa Tennakoon, said during a court hearing in […]

  • Miami Dredging: Discovery of 18th Century Cannon

    12 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    The discovery of an early 18th century cannon during work on the Miami Harbor Deepening Project was certainly an exciting moment for crew members of the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) LLC Company.  Their discovery was made in August while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor was working at the seagrass mitigation site […]

  • Baltimore District to Receive Over $68 Million for FY 2020

    15 March 2019
    Business & Finance

    The President’s proposed fiscal 2020 Civil Works Budget released March 12 includes $4.827 billion in gross discretionary funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works program. The overall Civil Works Budget includes $2.308 billion for commercial navigation; $1.011 billion for flood and storm risk management; $249 million for recreation; $187 million for aquatic […]

  • BP’s former employee charged with insider trading

    17 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former 20-year employee of BP p.l.c. and a senior responder during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill with insider trading in BP securities based on confidential information about the magnitude of the disaster. The price of BP securities fell significantly after the April 20, 2010 explosion on […]

  • Interview: Insufficient Finances Blocking Development of LNG Bunkering

    8 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    The LNG shipping market has been faced with lower rates amid growing LNG carrier fleet, a drop in liquid fuel prices and a lower demand for LNG in Asian markets.  On the other hand, lower shipping rates are good news for sellers and end users of LNG, which is becoming ever more popular as an alternative […]

  • North America’s largest LNG bunker barge completes 1st bunkering at Port of Canaveral

    21 July 2023
    Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Transition, Vessels

    The Clean Canaveral liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge has completed its first barge-to-ship bunkering of a cargo vessel at Port Canaveral. JAX LNG, along with Polaris New Energy, handled the LNG refueling of the M/T Damia Desgagnés on the ship’s inaugural call to Port Canaveral at the port’s South Cargo Berth 4.   The asphalt/bitumen tanker Damia Desgagnés completed her discharge of cargo […]

  • Germany: HOCHTIEF Conducts Rescue Exercise on Global Tech I

    15 October 2013
    Human Capital

    At the end of September HOCHTIEF Solutions conducted a first comprehensive offshore rescue exercise in a construction site in the North Sea (Global Tech I). Together with its partners, the team from the Civil Engineering Marine and Offshore branch practiced all processes related to the emergency rescue and the transportation of a severely injured offshore […]

  • Strengthened sanctions against Russia enter into force today

    12 September 2014

    The Council of the European Union on Thursday announced that strengthened EU sanctions against Russia, for its involvement in the Ukraine crisis, will enter into force upon the publication of the legal acts in the EU Official Journal on Friday. They include the following measures: Restrictions on Russia’s access to EU capital markets have been strengthened. […]

  • UK: Patrol Ship HMS Protector Sails on Maiden Voyage

    25 November 2011

    The Royal Navy’s new ice patrol ship HMS Protector sails on her maiden voyage under the White Ensign on Monday to begin eight months surveying and patrolling the frozen continent. The 5,000-tonne icebreaker has just completed an intensive period of sea trials and training prior to deploying to the Antarctic region. She has three ‘work […]

  • UK: HMS Protector Sets Sail on Her Maiden Voyage

    25 November 2011

    The Royal Navy’s new ice patrol ship HMS Protector sets sail for her maiden voyage. The 5,000-tonne icebreaker has just completed an intensive period of sea trials and training prior to deploying to the Antarctic region. She has three ‘work periods’ lined up around Antarctica, using her multi-beam echo sounder and her survey motor boat […]

  • SIEM MOXIE Wins Offshore Renewables Award

    9 April 2014
    Technology

    The SIEM MOXIE, an infield support vessel (ISV) equipped with Voith Schneider Propellers (VSP), has been singled out for the Offshore Renewables Award at the 2014 Offshore Support Journal Conference in London. Designed for specific tasks on wind farms in the North Sea as well as on the Atlantic, this offshore vessel boasts excellent dynamic […]

  • Kea Trader’s Hull Pieces About to Be Lifted from Grounding Site

    13 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Authorities have approved the plan for the removal of broken up containership Kea Trader.

  • UK: Red Spider’s eRed Completes 100 Operations

    25 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Red Spider, the Remote Open Close Technology specialist delivering major savings and reduced risk to the oil & gas industry, has announced completing 100 operations using its ground-breaking eRED tool. The work involving eRED has generated multi-million pound sales for Red Spider and has taken place across 30 fields in the UK, Norway, Australia and […]