The Indonesian Navy’s Western Fleet Quick Response Team (WFQR) of Tanjung Pinang Naval Base has found and arrested the product tanker Vier Harmoni off West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Vier Harmoni, carrying 900,000 liters of diesel worth around USD 390,000, was reported missing on August 16, 2016, wh
Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City Councils have adopted a new innovative approach to teacher recruitment as a group of former oil and gas workers begin their inductions to become secondary school teachers. Aberdeenshire Council said on Wednesday that the new Transition into Education Scheme (TIES) is
A steep rise in refinery capacity in the Middle East could diminish oil trade growth and with it prospects for tanker shipping, according to shipping consultancy Drewry. The global crude oil trade, which surged last year on the back of strong growth in oil demand and stocking activity, is expected t
Liquefied natural gas imports into China, the world’s largest energy consumer, dropped 17 percent in July as compared to the same month a year ago, according to the General Administration of Customs data. China imported 1.60 million mt of the chilled fuel in July, as compared to 1.92 million mt a ye
NOF Energy, the energy industry business development organisation, has appointed Dr Alan Lowdon, a specialist in renewable energy, to its board.
A researcher and lecturer at the University of Western Australia’s (UWA) School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering (CEME), Dr Scott Draper, has won a $10,000 Woodside Early Career Scientist at the 2016 Premier’s Science Awards in Perth.
Mexican National Hydrocarbons Agency (CNH) has announced a list of oil and gas firms that qualified to take part in the tender for Mexico’s deepwater blocks. Twenty-six companies, representing 18 nations qualified for the tender, and will be bidding for Mexico’s deepwater acreage. Of those twenty-si
London-based International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has released a report showing alleged secretive corporate structures and aggressive tax evasion schemes used by Chevron and other major North Sea oil producers. ITF, a global union federation representing around 700 unions and more than 4
Oslo-based Höegh LNG reported a second quarter profit after tax of US$3.5 million, down from $6.3 million in the first quarter 2016.
Two crew members from a bulk carrier were taken hostage and beaten when a group of armed robbers boarded their vessel some 5.5 nautical miles south of Conakry, Guinea, according to the International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) piracy reporting center. Seven robbers armed with guns and knives boarded the
About 26 hours of information was recovered from El Faro’s voyage data recorder (VDR), including bridge audio, navigational data, onboard radar images and wind data, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. NTSB said that numerous events leading up to the loss of the US-flagged cargo s
Sweden’s Ports of Stockholm saw an increase in both container cargo volumes as well as RoRo volumes in the first seven months of 2016, compared to the same period last year. The largest increase in RoRo freight was seen at the Port of Nynäshamn, where figures were up 20 percent. In the period betwee
Very soon, postmen will be carrying the 2016 summer edition of the Offshore WIND Magazine in their bags. This is the same edition that will be distributed at the WindEnergy Hamburg exhibition next month. But that is not the only thing that makes this edition interesting. DONG Energy broke the patter
Norway’s Sevan Marine started working on the follow-up study for a specific FLNG field development with a U.S. oil major during the second quarter.
