The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has just released a photo of their dredger Currituck taking a load of sand dredged from Ocean City Inlet to be deposited in the surf zone off of Assateague Island, on December 22, 2016. The dredger, based out of the Corps’ Wilmington District in North Carolina, is ca
Scandinavian liquefied natural gas (LNG) provider Skangas has signed an agreement with Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil for a small-scale LNG reload at the Klaipeda LNG Terminal in Lithuania. The company said that the reload will be undertaken in early January 2017 and will be “the first reload c
Norway retained its position as the third largest natural gas exporter, behind Russia and Qatar, and produced 4.1 Tcf of dry natural gas in 2015, according to the latest report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Spanish LNG terminal operator, Enagás, said that the national demand for natural gas in 2016 has grown 2 percent compared to 2015, reaching 321 TWh.
Egypt has signed three new oil and gas exploration and production deals worth around $220 million. These deals were signed with the UK oil giant BP, French oil company Total, and the Egyptian subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni. The country’s energy ministry said the deals include drilling of
Italian shipbuilding and ship designing company Fincantieri has emerged as the only bidder for Saint-Nazaire-based shipbuilder STX France, Reuters informed citing a source close to the matter. Earlier this week, a spokesperson for a Korean court overseeing the sale process, a part of the sale of the
GeoSea has installed the first of fifty six turbine foundations at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm. The foundations will provide a base for the 6MW Siemens wind turbines due to be installed from Q2 2017. GeoSea has sub contracted Sif Group and Smulders to produce the monopiles and transition p
Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) will open a call for proposals for clean technology projects under the Western Diversification Program (WDP) late in January 2017.
Global gas demand is projected to grow by about 45 percent from 2015 to 2040, ExxonMobil said in its 2017 Outlook for Energy.
Container port business trust Hutchison Port Holdings Trust (HPH Trust) has reached an agreement to purchase a majority stake in Huizhou International Container Terminals Limited (HICT). Through its subsidiaries, Yantian International Container Terminals (Phase III) Limited (YICT III) and Shenzhen P
Offshore marine engineering specialist GeoSea installed the first of fifty-six turbine foundations at the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm on Wednesday, 28th December. The components are being loaded-out onto the GeoSea installation vessel, Innovation, in Rotterdam and Vlissingen, with the installa
Norway’s Bergen Group has now achieved full acceptance of the refinancing process of the group. Bergen Group is a Norwegian supplier of products, services, and solutions to the offshore and maritime industry. The group’s operational activities are carried out by the subsidiary Bergen Group Services,
A new report by energy research and consulting service, Douglas-Westwood (DW), forecasts global subsea hardware & vessel operations expenditure to total $134 billion over 2017-2021 period. According to the report Subsea hardware will account for 62%, whilst subsea vessel operations will account for
The Netherlands has nearly tripled its installed offshore wind capacity in 2016 due to two major projects coming online during the year. The two wind farms which were hooked up to the grid in 2016 are the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm in the North Sea and the 144MW Westermeerwind nearshore wind fa
