Stainless steel producer Outokumpu informed on Friday it has won a deal to supply rebar to reinforce a spill basin at the Gate LNG terminal in Rotterdam.
Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions earlier this week won a contract extension from the French oil major Total to provide maintenance and operations services at the Elgin and Franklin fields in the UK North Sea. This contract value is more than NOK 400 million, or 49 million U.S. dollars.
Oil and gas company DEA Norge is set to cut by half the number of employees in Norway. According to Offshore.no, a Norwegian language website covering the country’s oil and gas industry, DEA Norge plans to let go 90 workers, from a total of 180 by the summer of 2017. The news website, citing other N
The 1993-built asphalt/bitumen tanker MV Infinity I started taking on water and continuously listing to the starboard side on June 8 due to a crack in the ship’s hull. Crewed by fourteen Indian seafarers, including the Master, the tanker’s list was increasing despite the crew’s de-watering efforts.
Oil and gas exploration company EnerGulf Resources has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire certain interests in offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas prospects from Texas South Energy. By signing the letter of intent with Texas South, EnerGulf will participate in six offshore Gulf of Mexico prospects
Two Ukrainian sailors have been found dead on board a Maltese-flagged ship that arrived for maintenance on Wednesday to Istanbul’s Desan shipyard. The two sailors, both reported to be in their mid-thirties, were found dead in their rooms, according to the ship’s captain, Turkish daily the Hurriyet w
Late in December 2015, a semi-submersible drilling rig was struck by an enormous wave, leading to the death of a worker aboard the platform – first fatality in Norway since 2009. The rig, COSL Innovator, was working for Statoil at the Troll field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. Four more workers
The installation of scour protection around the 51 foundations of the Nobelwind (Bligh Bank II)offshore wind project finished yesterday, 8 June. The erosion protection consists of a light filter layer (first phase) and a heavier coating layer specifically designed for various locations and water dep
Norway’s safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has issued orders to oil giant, BP, following an audit of materials handling, cranes and lifting, and late life at the Ula platform in the North Sea, off Norway. PSA said on Wednesday that, based on the findings during the audit that to
Vattenfall has chosen A2SEA to install MHI Vestas V164-8.0MW turbines at the 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm. Starting in summer 2018, A2SEA will deploy its offshore installation vessel, Sea Installer, to install the turbines. The turbines will be loaded out of the port of Esbjerg. ”As pioneers
Vattenfall has chosen A2SEA to install MHI Vestas V164-8.0MW turbines at the 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm. Starting in summer 2018, A2SEA will deploy its offshore installation vessel, Sea Installer, to install the turbines. The turbines will be loaded out of the port of Esbjerg. ”As pioneers
Workers at Elengy’s three LNG terminals in France renewed a blockade of the import facilities on Thursday as protests due to proposed labor reforms continue.
By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s North Sea Buzzard oilfield, which helps price global crude exports and in the past was beset by unplanned outages, has had a smooth year, industry sources said, boosting supply of crude that underpins the Brent benchmark. Unplanned shutdowns at the British
There is an ongoing lack of initiative by cruise companies to install technologies that reduce their air and water pollution impact on travel destinations and local peoples, according to the latest edition of Friends of the Earth’s Cruise Ship Report Card. The report card, last released in 2014, doc
