The Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA) has announced the approval of Danish company Monjasa as the dedicated Oil Spill Responder (OSR) for Tier 2 and 3 spills in Dubai’s anchorages and offshore waters. As the dedicated OSR for Dubai, Monjasa is committed to keeping a vessel on standby 24/7 for i
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and its member national shipowners’ associations are engaged in the final flurry of lobbying for removing implementation hurdles of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Ballast Water Management Convention. The Convention is expected to enter into
Israeli workers striking at Haifa port over the government’s plan to build privately-run ports on the Mediterranean coast close to state-owned Ashdod and Haifa ended their strike on Tuesday after a labour court ordered talks on employment conditions. The strike resulted in significant disruption of
The global shipping industry will see lower demand in coming years, all other things being equal, than was previously expected due to fragile and uneven global recovery, according to BIMCO. According to the latest Update of the World Economic Outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the g
BP has shared an infographics on how to build an oil platform in six steps. The platform shown in the infographics is located in the Caspian sea, offshore Azerbaijan. The West Chirag platform (image) began producing oil from one of the pre-drilled wells – J05, on 28 January, 2014 . The oil first p
Accessing two previously untapped streams of satellite data, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and their colleagues have created a new map of the world’s seafloor, creating a much more vivid picture of the structures that make up the deepest, least-explored parts of t
Pakistan is going to get another LNG terminal beside the one currently being built by Engro‘s unit Elengy Terminal Pakistan at Port Qasim. The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Thursday approved the Gawadar-Nawabshah LNG terminal and pipeline, a statement by Pakistan’s Ministry
Natural gas production from South Pars Gas Field has increased by 14 percent in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year compared to the same period last year, managing-director of the South Pars Gas Complex said. Masoud Hassani said the gas recovered during the first half of the year is
Several European countries, India, Iraq, and Pakistan have entered into negotiations with Iran in order to import gas, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Hamidreza Araqi said. He said that currently 189 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas are being produced in the country an
The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) conducts a replenishment-at-sea in the Arabian Gulf with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe. Truxtun is deployed as part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group supporting mari
Dana Gas Egypt has concluded a gas deal with the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) and the Egyptian General Petroleum Company (EGPC). This agreement forms the basis for an important development program to eventually increase production from current levels of over 40,000 BOEPD from the comp
Initial development plan for the Leviathan gas field has been submitted to the Israeli authorities by the group led by Noble Energy and Israel’s Delek Group. After months of determining the best way to develop the Leviathan field, some 130 kilometres off Israel’s coast the group submitted a proposal
Yemen LNG, the operator of the country’s only liquefaction plant, said that the facility is fully operational. “Yemen LNG confirms that it is fully operational in Sana’a and Balhaf with plant operations, including LNG exports, continuing as normal,” the company said in a statement on Friday without
Qatargas, world’s largest LNG producer, said it completed over 20 million man-hours across all of its assets and projects without a lost time incident (LTI). Khalid Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatargas CEO, said, “Safety is a core value in Qatargas that we have embedded in all of our systems. Over the pas
