Fifty five members of the U.S. Congress joined together in sending a letter to President Obama requesting a halt to the permitting process for potential seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean. These fifty five members include Representative Mark Sanford, who also opposed seismic testing and offshore
The Kieldrecht lock at the Belgium’s Port of Antwerp has been inaugurated today when H.M. King of Belgium officially opened this, now the world’s largest lock, by pressing the button to symbolically mark the inauguration. King Filip of Belgium was joined by MM. Ben Weyts, Flemish Minister for Transp
In a barrage of negative news from the offshore oil and gas industry in the past two years or so, with layoffs, layups, rig stacking and such, a warm and positive story comes from Brazil. Namely, the story, which won’t cause any changes on the stock exchanges, involves an FPSO off the south eastern
Yno 309, Ulstein’s first wind farm service operation vessel (SOV) and the first of two ordered by Bernhard Schulte Offshore, left the yard for sea trials on Tuesday, 7 June, and the results so far are highly satisfactorily, the Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder said. “We are underway in testin
Classification society DNV GL has issued the first “Clean Lay-up” declaration under its newly released classification guideline. DNV GL made the announcement about its declaration at the Posidonia trade fair. According to the classification society, the guideline enables shipowners and managers to d
Angolan state energy giant Sonangol is spinning off non-core investments in areas such as banking and real estate into a separate fund to allow it to focus exclusively on oil, new CEO Isabel dos Santos said on Thursday.
The Panama Canal’s contracted vessel, the Neopanamax dry bulk carrier MN Baroque, traversed yesterday the new Atlantic-facing Agua Clara Locks as a part of a series of training events occurring prior to the Expanded Canal’s inauguration, scheduled for June 26. The vessel arrived in Panama this week
Jobs supported by the United Kingdom’s offshore oil and gas industry will have fallen by the end of 2016 by an estimated 120,000 since their peak in 2014, under the severe strain of continued low oil prices. The 120.000 figure was revealed on Friday by Oil & Gas UK, an industry body representing the
As the shipping industry fights to reduce both sulphur oxide emissions and carbon footprint, methanol and ethanol have been identified as good potential fuel alternatives in achieving this goal, according to a study published by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The use of alternative fuel
The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), a company holding a 25 percent stake in the Alaska LNG project, appointed Keith M. Meyer as its president.
The offshore wind industry will soon launch its latest reference guide: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016. The third edition of the directory, produced in close cooperation with the vessel builders and operators in the industry, offers an updated overview of the available vessels in the market
Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has found several irregularities in the way oil company Wintershall is dealing with electrical installations on the Brage field, offshore Norway. PSA’s audit, carried out from April 13 to 22, 2016, focused on determining whether Wintershall is complying wit
The Marine Energy Event will be held on 26 October 2016 from 12:30 to 18:00 at RAI Amsterdam as part of the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference. Why should you attend? Well, we will give you not one , but five reasons why you don’t want to miss this event! 1. The future is in […]
Flow Instruments, a European unit of Chart Industries, has won a contract to supply LNG dispensers for a Gasrec LNG fueling station at Daventry International Distribution Centre, UK.
