New Zealand has offered 481.737 square kilometers of offshore and onshore acreage for oil and gas exploration. The oil companies interested to obtain the exploration permits have until September 6, 2017 to submit their bids. The offered area includes five offshore release areas (in Northland – Reing
The U.S. Department of Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will on Wednesday hold a lease sale offering 48 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama for oil and gas exploration and development. BOEM said that Lease Sale 247, which includes all unleased and non-
Responding to the changing LNG market conditions, the international group of liquefied natural gas importers (GIIGNL) issued its new LNG custody transfer handbook.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from Cheniere’s Sabine Pass liquefaction facility in Louisiana reached 235 billion cubic feet (Bcf) during the February-January period, the latest data from the U.S. Department of Energy shows.
Following a recent boardroom row, the UK-based oil and gas company Bowleven has launched a strategic review, which might include the sale of its assets or the sale of the entire company. Just last week, most of the company’s board was ousted in a vote called for by the Monaco-based activist sharehol
GE Oil & Gas has opened a new facility in Takoradi Port, Ghana, which will be the primary service center for deep-water offshore projects in the country. GE said on Wednesday that it would deliver more than 45,000 training hours for Ghanaian personnel at the facility over the next five years to buil
Representatives of the Iranian Government have signed investment contracts with private entities worth USD 1 trillion to develop Iranian ports, the country’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) said. The contracts include investments of USD 10 billion in Mazandaran Province, USD 20 billion in Khor
The first of four Neo-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes has become operational at the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal. Garden City Terminal plans to add another crane every two weeks until late April. The four cranes arrived at the port in December 2016, bringing the port’s total to 26, mor
Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG progressed the construction of its liquefaction and export project in Louisiana during the month of February.
James Fisher and Sons is acquiring the entire share capital of Rotos 360, a provider of inspection, repair and reconditioning solutions for offshore wind turbine rotor blades.
James Fisher and Sons is acquiring the entire share capital of Rotos 360, a provider of inspection, repair and reconditioning solutions for offshore wind turbine rotor blades.
Following a slow first half of 2016, port throughput rebounded in the second half of the year pushing the global container volumes up by an estimated 1.8% during the year, compared to 1.4% seen in 2015, according to Alphaliner. The fourth quarter of 2016 was saw a particularly strong volume growth o
Marine seismic company PGS has completed its newbuild program after naming its latest vessel Ramform Hyperion in a ceremony at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Co. yard in Nagasaki, Japan on Wednesday. The Ramform design was created by Roar Ramde in the early 1990s. The first vessel of t
Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas company Petrobras said Tuesday its liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports dropped by 65 percent last year. LNG imports into Brazil stood at 37 Mbbl/d (thousand barrels per day) last year as compared to 105 Mbbl/d the year before, Petrobras said in its full-year res
