Liquefied natural gas terminal on the Croatian island of Krk was a major topic discussed during the recent meeting between the Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė and her Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has identified several improvement points during an audit of Statoil and Gassco. No non-conformities were found. PSA said on Thursday that the audit was conducted on June 9 and 10 and that the revealed improvement points were
Swiss-based container carrier Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) christened the latest in a series of twenty 19,224 TEU container ships, MSC Sveva, during a ceremony held at the Port of Le Havre, France, on July 20. The 199,272 dwt MSC SVEVA belongs to an Oscar-class of container ships which featu
Fluor subsidiary Stork has confirmed it scored a two-year fabric maintenance and asset support services contract by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited across six of the company’s North Sea assets. The confirmation comes following an announcement earlier this month when Repsol Sinopec said it had aw
Blades for MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbines which will spin at the 258MW Burbo Bank Extension wind farm started arriving to Belfast, the Belfast Harbour reported via social media. The first tower components for the Burbo Bank Extension project begun arriving at MHI Vestas’ pre-assembly site in the Belfa
Prosafe has received the Petroleum Safety Authority’s Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the newbuild flotel Safe Zephyrus. The flotel, built by Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard, was completed in November 2015 and delivered to its owner in January 2016. Safe Zephyrus is a semi-submersible acco
Cochin Shipyard, India’s ship and offshore structure building company, has secured an approval by the Indian government for the construction of a new $267 million dry dock, to boost the shipbuilding and shiprepair capacity of the country. The approval was granted on Wednesday by the Cabinet Committe
Vard Holdings, a designer and shipbuilder of offshore and specialized vessels, has temporarily laid off its entire workforce at Vard Brevik in Norway and shut down Vard Niterói in Brazil, axing most of its workforce there. During the second quarter of 2016, Vard ceased all shipbuilding activities at
LNG throughput volumes at the Dutch Gate terminal dropped 24 percent in the first half of this year as compared to the same period a year before, according to data released by the Port of Rotterdam on Thursday.
The UK Royal Navy’s nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Ambush, collided with a merchant vessel off Gibraltar on July 20 at 13:30 local time while conducting a training exercise, the country’s ministry of defense said in a statement. The Royal Navy said the Astute-class submarine was involved “in a glanc
Norway’s competition watchdog will look into whether competition rules are being infringed in its oil industry, the industry ministry said on Wednesday.
ExxonMobil-operated US$19 billion PNG LNG project’s production in the second quarter was pegged back from record levels in the previous quarter due to routine maintenance in April and an unplanned shutdown in May.
The $10 billion Angola LNG project, led by U.S. energy giant Chevron, has been shut down with production to resume again in September.
The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) has postponed the meeting on Deepwater Wind’s 90MW Deepwater ONE – South Fork project, after receiving a request by its partner agency NYSERDA (New York State Energy and Research Development Authority) to do so. At the meeting, which was scheduled for 20 July,
