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32 Beatrice Foundations In Place
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov installed the 32nd jacket foundation on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth on 24 December, a Weekly Notice of Operations shows.
Kawasaki Heavy, Island Offshore cancel well intervention vessel order
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has decided to terminate the shipbuilding contract for Island Offshore’s top hole drilling/light well intervention vessel, Island Navigator.
Ineos partially restarts Kinneil. Forties flows to be increased gradually
Ineos has partially re-started the Kinneil facility following the completion of the mechanical repair works on the Forties pipeline system.
FEC provides safety training for LNG equipment
Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway partnered up with The Safety Train, to enable FEC and other railroads and environmental service companies to provide hands-on instruction regarding hazardous materials transportation equipment and LNG.
Austrian natural gas imports from Russia hit record high
Austria’s imports of natural gas from Russia reached 8.25 billion cubic meters of gas, beating the record set in 2005 when the country imported 6.8 bcm.
On this day: 28 years of production from Veslefrikk
Twenty eight years ago today, the Statoil-operated Veslefrikk field located offshore Norway started production. Statoil is the operator of the Veslefrikk field with an 18% interest and its partners are Petoro (37%), Repsol Norge (27%), DEA Norge (13.5%), and Wintershall (4.5%). The Veslefrikk is an
China to become second-biggest LNG importer in 2017
By the end of the year, China will have established itself as the world’s second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, overtaking South Korea in the process.
Rystad: 2017 proves to be record low year for discovered resources
Intelligence group Rystad Energy concluded last week that 2017 was yet another record low year for discovered conventional volumes globally. Less than seven billion barrels of oil equivalent has been discovered YTD, Rystad Energy reported last Thursday. “We haven’t seen anything like this since the
Drewry: Shortage of Containers Next Year Is Unlikely
A fear that there will be a shortage of containers in 2018 is unjustified, according to Drewry.
Fitch: US sanctions cut Russian LNG project funding options
Securing funding for LNG projects could prove to be a challenge for Russia, where some potential project sponsors (Rosneft, Novatek) and fields (Yuzhno Kirinskoye, operated by Gazprom) are under Western sanctions, according to Fitch Ratings.
State government adds to Alaska LNG momentum
The State of Alaska has approved ExxonMobil’s plan to engineer the expansion of the Point Thomson project on the North Slope, adding to the momentum of the Alaska LNG project.
Keppel to pay $422 million in fines to resolve bribery case
Keppel Offshore & Marine (KOM) will pay fines totaling $422 million to three jurisdictions to resolve charges arising out of a decade-long scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in Brazil.
Seacor Marine buys four platform supply vessels
U.S.-based Seacor Marine has announced the acquisition of four foreign-flagged platform supply vessels (PSVs).
Video: USCG Medevacs Mariner from Bulker off Alaska
A 27-year-old mariner was medevaced from a bulker some 122 miles southwest of Adak, Alaska, on December 23.