Australia: Ichthys power plant contract terminated, hundreds of jobs affected A $550 million contract for the construction of a combined cycle power plant for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project in Australia has been terminated, leaving hundreds of workers in limbo. BP outlook: LNG to grow seven
GasLog Partners, the New York-listed spinoff of LNG shipper GasLog reported increased profits for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2016.
A new player in the offshore rig services market has recently emerged in Denmark. The new company, set in the Port of Frederikshavn in the Northern Denmark, was formed by three oil & gas service providers for the oil & gas industry and named OVS Offshore. Offshore Energy Today has had an interview w
Total E&P UK on Friday experienced what it says were difficulties while drilling one of its North Sea wells. Following several reports that Total was fighting at its Elgin platform to put a well under control, Offshore Energy Today reached out to the company seeking further info. This is what the co
By Ron Bousso and Clara Denina LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell <RDSa.L> is nearing the sale of a large part of its North Sea oil and gas assets to private equity-backed Chrysaor for $3 billion (2.39 billion pounds), banking sources said, marking a milestone in its drive to reduce debt after buy
Oil company Aker BP has been given a permission to remove an emergency response vessel from the Alvheim field in the North Sea, off Norway. Norway’s offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), said on Friday it has given its consent to Aker BP to remove the vessel from the field
Titan LNG, the supplier of LNG to the marine and industrial markets in North West Europe, has been awarded a subsidy of €500.000 (Approx: US$535,000) by the province of North-Holland to support the construction of its LNG bunkering pontoon.
Iberdrola has shared several photos showing the start of turbine installation works at the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea. The photos show Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Brave Tern installing some of the wind farm’s 70 Adwen 5MW wind turbines at the
U.S. President Donald Trump named Cheryl LaFleur as acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission following the resignation Norman Bay.
The environmentalist group, Greenpeace, has launched a new campaign in Brazil with an aim to protect the newly discovered Amazon Reef from oil exploration. In the far north of Brazil, where the Amazon River meets the sea, there is a coral reef whose discovery was announced by a group of scientists i
Finnish engine manufacturer Wärtsilä order intake during the fourth quarter 2016 dropped 6 percent from the same quarter in 2015, reaching €1.32 billion (Approx. US$1.41 billion).
Canadian Port of Halifax expects the 2017 cruise season to be the busiest to date, with 179 vessel calls carrying around 275,000 passengers. A record number of passenger visits and ship calls will get underway on April 24, 2017, with the arrival of the Amadea, a Phoenix Reisen vessel, according to t
By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Friday as rising crude output from the United States was offsetting efforts by OPEC and other producers to prop up the market by cutting supplies. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were trading at $56.17 p
AzEire, the Ireland focused oil & gas exploration company backed by Seacrest Capital, has been awarded an extension to its 100% working interest FEL 1/13 license in the Porcupine Basin, off Ireland. The consent for the extension was given by the Minister for Communications, Climate Actions and Envir
