An offshore worker has been airlifted from a UK North Sea platform due to a medical emergency. Following reports that an offshore worker was evacuated from a North Sea platform on Friday, August 12, 2016, Offshore Energy Today reached out to UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) seeking more det
Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas company Petrobras said its liquefied natural gas imports dropped by 56% in the first half of this year. Petrobras attributed this decline to higher domestic gas supply and lower thermoelectric demand in Brazil. LNG imports into Brazil stood at 54 Mbbl/d (thousan
After installing the final wind turbine foundation at Burbo Bank Extension wind farm in Liverpool Bay, Van Oord’s heavy lift vessel Svanen has moored at Harland and Wolff’s Commissioning Quay in Belfast. Svanen completed the foundations installation at the wind farm in July, and will now undergo rep
Brazil’s state-owned oil giant Petrobras has reached a new monthly record in pre-salt oil and natural gas output due to a start-up on Lula Central, in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. Petrobras said on Thursday that its total production of oil and natural gas in July was of 2.89 million barrels of
Nigeria LNG, operator of the giant Bonny export plant, said it will reduce salaries and review manning levels at its shipping unit due to the ongoing LNG shipping industry downturn. Nigeria LNG can confirm that “reviewed manning levels and wage scale for officers on Bonny Gas Transport (BGT) vessels
More than 100 delegates from 30 West Coast ports, who were elected by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), voted on August 9 to discuss with representatives of the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) the possible contract extension between the ILWU and PMA. By majority vote, delega
Danish oil company Maersk Oil saw its second quarter 2016 net operating profit drop to $131 million, from $137 million achieved in the same period of 2015. Underlying profit was $130 million, down from $217 a year ago. However, Maersk Oil has described its result as “the return to profit in Q2”, com
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project in Australia said Friday that the largest module of the final three shipments was recently offloaded at Bladin Point near Darwin. The 5,100 tonne fractionation module will be used as part of the first LNG processing train to separate ethane, propane and butane
Standard Drilling, the used-to-be drilling contractor, is moving into the offshore support vessels sector. More precisely, the company has entered the platform supply vessel market with the acquisition of 20 percent stake in PSV Opportunity I DIS for $2.4 million. PSV owns three mid-sized PSV vessel
By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices edged up on Friday, remaining near the previous day’s highs, on the prospect of talks by exporters about ways to prop up a market grappling with a supply overhang. Brent crude futures were trading at $46.12 per barrel by 0645 GMT, receding from a
LNG production at Trinidad and Tobago’s sole liquefaction and export facility at Point Fortin has continued to decline in June due to ongoing gas supply shortfalls in the country. Atlantic LNG’s 14.8 mtpa Point Fortin facility produced 2.0 million cubic meters in June, a drop of 15.2% as compared th
Indian Oil Corp. has reportedly issued a tender to purchase two cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for October delivery. The tender is valid until August 23, Reuters reported on Friday citing trading sources. IndianOil is co-promoter of India’s largest LNG importer, Petronet, which has two impor
Following the new Massachusetts energy legislation, which calls for 1,600MW of offshore wind capacity by 2027, entering into law, Deepwater Wind has appointed Matthew Morrissey, the managing director of Offshore Wind: Massachusetts, to head its operations in the state. According to South Coast Today
Industrial action by Wood Group’s offshore workers has been suspended to allow for fresh talks between the company and the unions, the RMT union has said. To remind, Wood Group’s workers on Shell’s seven North Sea platforms participated in two strike actions in a dispute over proposed cuts on pay an
