The Golar Ice and Golar Crystal, two LNG tankers owned by the shipping company Golar LNG, were conducting a ship-to-ship (STS) transfer operation in Gibraltar Bay last week. The gallery below shows from different angles the two vessels lined up for operation. Built in 2015, the Golar Ice is an 82,20
Tidal Transit’s crew transfer vessel Kitty Petra and North Sea Logistics’ Excalibur responded to a mayday call yesterday, after a jet ski capsized and threw a man and two children into the sea off Colwyn Bay. Following an alert by people ashore, Holyhead Coastguard broadcast a Mayday Relay to the ve
The latest research by McKinsey Energy Insights (MEI) predicts the LNG oversupply could last until 2024, meaning few projects could reach financial investment decision in the next 12 to 18 months.
The UK engineering consultancy, Ardmore Craig, has won a contract to design and build cable handling equipment and upgrade a previously supplied lay spread for on an offshore wind farm that the company left unnamed. This marks the 150th contract award for Ardmore Craig, which said that, despite the
The UK engineering consultancy, Ardmore Craig, has won a contract to design and build cable handling equipment and upgrade a previously supplied lay spread for on an offshore wind farm that the company left unnamed. This marks the 150th contract award for Ardmore Craig, which said that, despite the
M/V Belle Rose, the bulk carrier that ran aground off the Philippines on June 13, was refloated today at Monad Shoal after two-day operations to pull it back to deep waters, local media reported. M/V Belle Rose ran aground four nautical miles southeast off Malapascua Island in Daanbantayan, Cebu, th
Her Majesty’s Australian Ship (HMAS) Perth has conducted a security patrol of Western Australia’s North West Shelf, before departing for the Middle East as part of Operation Manitou. The Royal Australian Navy said on Monday that the Anzac class frigate departed Rockingham on June 7 to relieve of dut
Ports of Auckland Ltd. (POAL) has been fined NZD 49,980 (USD 35,551) and ordered to pay NZD 12,000 in reparations after a stevedore employed by the company fell nearly three meters off the unguarded edge of a hatch lid, suffering injuries. POAL pleaded guilty to a charge laid by Maritime NZ under th
South Korea’s Kogas, the world’s largest corporate buyer of LNG, reported a decline of 8.6 percent in its sales volume in May. Kogas sold 1.91 million tonnes of LNG in May, compared with 2.09 million tonnes a year ago, the company said in a filing to the stock exchange. Gas sales into the power sect
The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding company (EGAS) could import up to 120 cargoes of liquefied natural gas in 2017.
A 1998-built bulk carrier MV Benita ran aground on the southeast coast of Mauritius after an incident broke out between the vessel’s crewmembers, local media reported. A fight which broke out between two sailors on Thursday night was reportedly the cause of the vessel’s grounding on the coast of Le
Australian oil and gas production and exploration company Triangle Energy has executed a share sale agreement with AWE for the purchase of its 57.5% participating interest in the Cliff Head oil field, located in the offshore Perth Basin, Western Australia. Roc Oil, the operator of the Cliff Head fie
Imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by world’s largest consumer of the chilled fuel, Japan dropped 4 percent in May when compared to the same month a year ago, provisional data from Japan’s Ministry of Finance showed on Monday. Japan’s imports in May decreased to 5.52 million mt of LNG while the
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Having turned round its North American shale business, Royal Dutch Shell is putting so-called unconventional energy at the heart of its growth plans, and believes lessons from the revamp can be applied across the company. Greg Guidry, head of the Anglo-Dutch group’s
