Fugro, a provider of integrated geotechnical, survey, subsea and geoscience services, has claimed another court victory against Boskalis, one of its largest shareholders. According to Fugro, the Court of Appeal in The Hague on Tuesday ruled in favor of Fugro and dismissed a claim by Boskalis to forc
Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Energy (SKE) said it has made another “significant” gas discovery from its three-well drilling campaign at Block SK408 in the Sarawak area offshore Malaysia. The first well, Jerun-1 is a discovery located approximately 5km north of the 2014 Bakong gas discovery. Based on ana
In today’s spotted we bring you the Academician Pashin – the first tanker built for the Russian Navy since the end of the Soviet Union. The vessel was launched at Nevsky Shipyard on May 26. Nevsky says Academician Pashin is the biggest vessel ever launched at this shipyard. Its construction was carr
Gazprom’s head, Alexey Miller on Monday met with Liu Jian, president of CNOOC and CNPC’s BoD chairman Wang Yilin to discuss cooperation in LNG and natural gas sectors, respectively.
Maritime and oil and gas unions affiliated to global federations IndustriAll and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) met in Aberdeen 19-20 May 2016 to begin development of an industrial and political strategy to challenge the replacement of quality jobs with cheap labor by employer
Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Energy (“SKE”) on Tuesday announced another significant gas discovery from its three wells 2015 drilling campaign within the Block SK408 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) area, offshore Malaysia. All three wells targeted non-associated gas within the primary target Late Mioc
France’s three LNG import terminals are likely to remain closed until Friday as workers are protesting due to proposed labor reforms, according to the terminal operator, Elengy.
Iceni Vengeance provided the platform for the UK Coastguard to carry out a rescue exercise on 26 May. The crew transfer vessel is currently supporting operations and maintenance (O&M) at the Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm. South Boats IOW delivered Iceni Vengeance to Iceni Marine Services in March l
The container shipping sector is bracing for a major impact from the long-awaited opening of the expanded Panama Canal, scheduled to take place on June 26, 2016. China COSCO Shipping’s container vessel Andronikos will be the first ship to transit the expanded canal, marking the completion of the USD
Pay talks in Norway between offshore workers and employers scheduled for Monday, May 30, have broken down before they even started.
PTT of Thailand is reportedly planning to invest US$28 million to increase the capacity of its Map Ta Phut LNG import terminal by 1.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year.
Alaska-based Resources Energy could start exporting liquefied natural gas to Japan by 2020-2021, according to Brian Murkowski, REI vice president.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) reported on Monday that the petroleum activities in 2015 generated 13.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, an increase of 400,000 tonnes (3 per cent) compared with the previous year. NPD said this was mostly due to start-up difficulties on the Knarr field and
At the moment, the impact of national strike in France, where members of the trade union CGT have organized strikes at the country’s refineries and blocked oil terminals and fuel depots, on the tanker market is fairly restricted, albeit growing, according to shipbrokers Poten&Partners. Based on the
