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Gazprom wraps up third gas auction
Gazprom third auction for the supply of gas to Europe has been completed, with bidding held from August 31 to September 2.
Add Energy doubles workforce in Aberdeen and Houston
Add Energy, an upstream consultancy company, has doubled its workforce in Aberdeen and Houston to 55 personnel as a result of recent contract wins. Add Energy said on Monday that the contract wins, which include three oil and gas operators and the company’s expansion into power generation, have secu
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Top news, August 29 – September 4, 2016
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from August 29 – September 4, 2016. World’s largest tidal turbine preparing for installation at EMEC Scotrenewables Tidal Power is performing final commissioning checks on the SR2000 floating tidal turbine before connec
U.S. offshore rig count hit by Hermine storm
U.S. offshore rig count took a hit this past week after the tropical storm Hermine forced some operators to move their rigs of the storm’s path in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Top News of the Week, 29 Aug – 4 Sep 2016
Adwen Preparing Bremerhaven Site for 8MW Prototype Offshore wind turbine maker Adwen has begun the civil works on the site in Bremerhaven where the first prototype of its AD 8-180 wind turbine will be installed. Report: Gamesa and Siemens Turn Down GE’s Bid for Adwen Gamesa and Siemens have rejected
Top news of the week Aug. 29-Sep. 4, 2016
ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhilips back out of Alaska LNG ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhilips are looking to exit the Alaska LNG project following a report by Wood Mackenzie stating the project’s competitiveness ‘ranks poorly’ under current market conditions. Gentle leaves Cheniere and joins Souki at Tellur
Crew transfer vessel update
At the time this article was being written, almost 45 per cent of the purpose built crew transfer vessels in the offshore wind industry were owned or operated by eleven British companies and one Anglo-Dutch company, with 74 of the vessels owned or operated by one of two companies, Turbine Transfers
Unions stand up against Boskalis’ job cuts proposal
Dutch dredging and energy services giant Boskalis in July said it would reduce its fleet and cut around 650 jobs globally, citing difficult market conditions. However, Dutch maritime union Nautilus /FNV Waterbouw, backed by The International Transport Workers’ Federation, is now launching what its s
Safety irregularity found at Statfjord A
Norwegian oil and gas safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found a non-conformity during an audit of Statoil’s PP&A of wells at the Statfjord A field in the North Sea. PSA said on Friday that the audit of planning and execution of permanent plugging and abandonment (PP&A) at Statfj
Kogas to up imports of Sakhalin-2 LNG volumes
South Korea’s Kogas, the world’s second-largest buyer of LNG could be importing more liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-2 project after the third liquefaction train is commissioned.
Shell-bound DSV Kreuz Challenger named
Singapore-based Kreuz Subsea has named its second newbuild diving support vessel (DSV), the Kreuz Challenger, presently under construction by the Norwegian shipbuilder Vard. The Kreuz Challenger DSV is scheduled for delivery from Vard Søviknes in Norway in the second quarter of 2017. The DP-2 vessel
JBIC readies $400 mln loan for Yamal LNG
Japan Bank for International Cooperation is about to loan US$400 million to the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG project, according to Tadashi Maeda, JBIC’s CEO.
Traffic Stopped at USEC Ports Due to Hurricane Hermine
The US Coast Guard has halted maritime traffic at major seaports on the country’s east coast in response to Hurricane Hermine. The USCG has set Port Hurricane Condition Yankee for the ports of Charleston, Brunswick, Savannah, coastal South Carolina and coastal Georgia due to Hurricane Hermine. In ad