Bergen Bunkers and OW Bunker, two of the world’s leading suppliers of marine fuels and lubricants, today confirmed a strategic cooperation by which OW Bunker will acquire the entire share capital of Bergen Bunkers AS. Bergen Bunkers has offices in Bergen and St Petersburg, and provides fuel and lubr
Offshore industry professionals from around the world gathered in Amsterdam on 23 – 24 October for Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2012. The fifth edition of Offshore Energy attracted a record number of 7632 attendees, up 49% from last year. Offshore Energy 2012 continued on its path of stea
Maersk Drilling and Maersk Training have once again put themselves in the forefront of competence development by investing USD 10 million in a new drilling simulator complex. The complex will be inaugurated today at Maersk Training in Svendborg, Denmark.. The most advanced drilling simulator complex
NORDEN’s score has improved significantly in the independent British non-profit organisation Carbon Disclosure Project’s yearly and latest assessment of climate change disclosure practises. Scoring 90 points versus 82 in 2011, NORDEN is now ranked 7 (in 2011: 17) in the 2012 Carbon Disclosure Leader
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has formed a joint venture with Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering to carry out the design engineering for fixed and floating offshore platforms, FPSOs and subsea pipelines for Samsung’s future offshore oil and gas pro
On October 24, 2012 a seminar “Implementing Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI), Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan (SEEMP)” for ship owners, design bureaus and shipyards took place at the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping Head Office. The event was organised jointly by Russian Maritime Re
Thursday 18 October, the BaltShip started the transport of the world’s longest wind turbine blade from SSP Technology in Kirkeby, Denmark. With a length of 83.5 meters and a rotor diameter of 171.2 meters, the blade is by far the largest produced to date. Passing the blade by car at the speed of 50
The executive committee of Euronav NV announced that the company sold the VLCC Algarve (1999 – 298,969 dwt) for a selling price of USD 35,875,000 million and that the vessel was delivered to its new owner yesterday. A capital gain of USD 7.3 million will be recorded whilst the net cash proceeds avai
Aberdeen based Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd has awarded a contract to Seaway Heavy Lifting Contracting Ltd for the transportation and installation of two weather monitoring stations for the East Anglia Offshore Wind zone, located in the Southern North Sea, East Anglia Field, UK. The offsho
Last week, during the EEA grant conference arranged by Innovation Norway and CDTI in Bergen, the Norwegian company Langlee Wave Power and Repnaval Shipyard (Zamakona Yards) signed an agreement for the development of wave power in the Canary islands. The two companies will file a common application t
On Wednesday, the Port of Tallinn signed 50 million euro agreement with Finnish shipping company Arctia for the purchase of icebreaking vessel MSV Botnica. “We are planning to finance the purchase with a short-term loan from a commercial bank,” says Marko Raid, the CFO of Port of Tallinn. In longer
Ship Finance International Limited, today announced that it has agreed to acquire two car carriers at attractive prices. The Japan-built vessels have a capacity of approximately 6,500 car equivalent units (CEU) and were built in 2005 and 2006, respectively. The vessels will be time chartered to an i
NAVINGO interviewed Iwan Scholte, Sales Manager from Liebherr, at this year’s Offshore Energy Conference and Exhibition in the Netherlands. Regarding the company’s development plans for the offshore sector, Mr. Scholte said that they have built a new offshore crane, which has not yet been purchased
On Monday, Falck Nutec in the Netherlands has received the OPITO approval for the Major Emergency Management Initial Response (MEM IR) training. Falck Nutec is the first Dutch training company who can provide this high quality Crisis Management Training following the standards of OPITO. The Offshore
