ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhilips back out of Alaska LNG ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhilips are looking to exit the Alaska LNG project following a report by Wood Mackenzie stating the project’s competitiveness ‘ranks poorly’ under current market conditions. Gentle leaves Cheniere and joins Souki at Tellur
At the time this article was being written, almost 45 per cent of the purpose built crew transfer vessels in the offshore wind industry were owned or operated by eleven British companies and one Anglo-Dutch company, with 74 of the vessels owned or operated by one of two companies, Turbine Transfers
Dutch dredging and energy services giant Boskalis in July said it would reduce its fleet and cut around 650 jobs globally, citing difficult market conditions. However, Dutch maritime union Nautilus /FNV Waterbouw, backed by The International Transport Workers’ Federation, is now launching what its s
Norwegian oil and gas safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found a non-conformity during an audit of Statoil’s PP&A of wells at the Statfjord A field in the North Sea. PSA said on Friday that the audit of planning and execution of permanent plugging and abandonment (PP&A) at Statfj
South Korea’s Kogas, the world’s second-largest buyer of LNG could be importing more liquefied natural gas from the Sakhalin-2 project after the third liquefaction train is commissioned.
Singapore-based Kreuz Subsea has named its second newbuild diving support vessel (DSV), the Kreuz Challenger, presently under construction by the Norwegian shipbuilder Vard. The Kreuz Challenger DSV is scheduled for delivery from Vard Søviknes in Norway in the second quarter of 2017. The DP-2 vessel
Japan Bank for International Cooperation is about to loan US$400 million to the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG project, according to Tadashi Maeda, JBIC’s CEO.
The US Coast Guard has halted maritime traffic at major seaports on the country’s east coast in response to Hurricane Hermine. The USCG has set Port Hurricane Condition Yankee for the ports of Charleston, Brunswick, Savannah, coastal South Carolina and coastal Georgia due to Hurricane Hermine. In ad
A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has arrived to Belfast Harbour, the load out port for DONG Energy’s 258MW Burbo Bank Extension project, and is currently loading components which will make up the first four of the wind farm’s 32 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines. Sea Installer is expected to sail out from
The VLCC Berth 1 at the Port of Fujairah, UAE, has commenced operation on August 24, 2016, following the completion of its construction in June this year. First vessel was already accepted for cargo discharge and the second vessel for loading is scheduled to arrive at the port on September 5, 2016,
Atlantis Resources has published photos of an AR1500 1.5MW tidal turbine hitting the road as it embarks on a trip to the MeyGen tidal energy project site.
Several Dutch companies have teamed up to form Offshore Project Support (OPS) in order to offer a complete service to the offshore industry. The joint venture company, created by Den Helder Support Service (DHSS), Den Helder Aircraft Systems (DHAS), Glomar Offshore, and GEOxyz, resulted in one team
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Five Stars Fujian from Australian ports for 12 months after the vessel was released from detention in the afternoon of September 1. Five Stars Fujian was released after AMSA received confirmation that outst
Gulf of Mexico oil production is slowly resuming following preventive shutdowns caused by the tropical storm Hermine. According to the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, as of September 1, approximately 15.18 percent of the current oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut
