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Offshore worker dies on North Sea platform
An offshore worker has died in an accident aboard a North Sea platform, offshore UK. According to available information, the worker employed aboard a Perenco-run platform died after an incident on Tuesday, December 5. Norfolk Eastern Daily Press has managed to obtain a statement from a Perenco spoke
CAPE Holland Tests Decommissioning Tool
CAPE Holland extracted a wind turbine foundation monopile at the Maasvlakte area in Rotterdam last week, as part of a demonstration project for its CAPE Vibro Lifting Tool (VLT). The 4m diameter pile was installed in May 2016 for the purpose of demonstration, which resulted in loosening and extracti
CAPE Holland Tests Decommissioning Tool
CAPE Holland extracted a wind turbine foundation monopile at the Maasvlakte area in Rotterdam last week, as part of a demonstration project for its CAPE Vibro Lifting Tool (VLT). The 4m diameter pile was installed in May 2016 for the purpose of demonstration, which resulted in loosening and extracti
Trafigura boosts LNG trade by 53 pct
Trafigura, one of the world’s largest commodities trading firms, said its LNG volumes rose 53 percent in the 2016 financial year as the global LNG market continued its rapid expansion. The independent trading company increased its LNG trade to 6.4 million mt in the financial year ended September 30,
Klaipedos Nafta’s LNG revenue climbs
Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of the first Lithuanian LNG terminal said on Wednesday that the import facility earned 3.5 percent more in the January-November period. Sales revenues coming from the regasification activity from Höegh LNG’s FSRU Independence located in the port of Klaipeda were at 61.4
Aqualis Offshore to Back A2SEA’s Horns Rev 3 Work
A2SEA has contracted Aqualis Offshore to perform engineering consultancy services for wind turbine installation works at the Horns Rev 3 wind farm offshore Denmark. Aqualis Offshore’s London-office will provide structural site assessments at the locations where A2SEA’s SEA INSTALLER jack-up vessel w
Hellenic Petroleum bags exploration block offshore Greece
Oil company Hellenic Petroleum has been awarded Block 10, in the Kyparissiakos Gulf off Greece, for exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. The Greek Ministry of Environment & Energy declared the oil company as the selected applicant for the offshore Block 10 on Tuesday, December 6 as part of
Polarcus cuts guidance
Marine seismic firm Polarcus has lowered its full year guidance for the estimated multi-client prefunding for 2016. The company has said that it expects to report a prefunding level of 120 percent for the full year 2016, down from previously guided 150 percent. Also, the estimated multi-client inves
Lely Wind Farm Fully Decommissioned (VIDEO)
Nuon, part of Vattenfall, has dismantled four offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 2MW at the Lely offshore wind farm in IJsselmeer, a freshwater lake in the Netherlands. In late September, the company started the decommissioning works by dismantling the turbines, which was done in three
EDF Managing Blyth OWF Construction from New Project Office
In October, EDF Energy Renewables established a new project office in Blyth to manage the construction of the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator wind farm, located around 6km off the coast of Blyth, connecting to a new substation being built on the site of the former Blyth Power Station. The scheme’s 25‐st
Shell to sign initial Iran oil and gas development deals – Iran
DUBAI (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell will sign initial agreements on Wednesday to develop Iranian oil and gas fields, an Iranian official said, the first deal by the world’s second biggest listed oil firm in Iran since sanctions were lifted. Analysts said the deals showed major oil companies were pre
Swire Seabed expands subsea vessel fleet
Norway-based subsea operations specialist Swire Seabed, a subsidiary of Swire Pacific Offshore, has expanded its fleet with a subsea support and construction vessel (SSCV) it had bought from Olympic. The vessel was delivered to Swire on Tuesday, December 6 and renamed from Olympic Athene to Seabed C
One of the world’s largest gas fields boosted by $1 billion ADB loan
The Asian Development Bank said Wednesday it will loan $1 billion for the expansion of Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II, one of the world’s largest gas fields. The loan consists of a $500 million private sector loan to the Southern Gas Corridor Closed Joint Stock Company (SGC) and a $500 million sovereign
VIDEO: Design and Engineering (Expertise Hub)
With the offshore wind industry still in process of reaching its full technological and economical potential, innovation and cost reduction are inevitable subject whichever part of the industry one refers to. This might especially be true with design and engineering, where companies are trying to co