U.S. oil company ExxonMobil has terminated a drillship contract it had with Seadrill Partners, a subsidiary of the offshore driller Seadrill. The drilling company on Friday said it had received a notice of termination for the West Capella drillship. According to Seadrill’s fleet status report, the r
Driftwood LNG has last week filed a request with the U.S. FERC to initiate the pre-filing environmental review process for its proposed LNG export facility and associated pipeline. The company is developing an LNG production and export terminal on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake
The United States Coast Guard suspended yesterday the search for a missing cruise ship passenger in the Gulf of Mexico who was reported missing from the Carnival’s ship Carnival Liberty, Friday, approximately 200 miles southeast of Galveston, the Coast Guard said. Samantha Broberg, 33, was reported
French Energy Minister Segolene Royal said on Tuesday she is investigating legal means to ban the import of shale gas from the United States because France has banned shale gas exploration using hydraulic fracking for environmental reasons.
Norway’s Statoil on Monday said it has entered a binding letter agreement into two exploration licenses in the Thrace region in the European north-western part of Turkey.
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The U.S. Coast Guard and Shell continue joint efforts to respond to an oil leak that occurred in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana, at Shell’s Glider field on Thursday morning. According to a statement by the Coast Guard, on water, recovery vessels are searching for oil that can be recovere
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FERC authorizes additional trains for Cameron LNG The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently authorized Cameron LNG to increase natural gas processing and liquefaction capability at its terminal under construction in Hackberry, Louisiana. Cheniere’s Meg Gentle: Europe is the “na
Malaysian energy giant Petronas has on Saturday sent its first floating LNG producing unit, the PFLNG1, from South Korea to Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak. Petronas held a sail away ceremony at South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, where the FLNG was bu
Dozens of jobs will be cut in Louisiana in the following months, due to, in part, low oil prices, Louisiana Workforce Commission has informed. In a statement this week, the commission said that four Louisiana employers recently issued Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARNs). Companies
The third of overall four ultra-long distance towing and anchor handling vessels built for Dutch shipping company ALP Maritime Services has been launched in Japan. Niigata Shipyard, responsible for the construction of four Ulstein-designed AHTS vessels, launched ALP Sweeper during a ceremony held Ma
The mysterious crewless oil tanker Tamaya 1 that washed ashore early this month in Liberia is listing to the starboard, according to the country’s Ministry of National Defense. In addition, following an inspection by the Liberian Coast Guard, it has been determined that the 1,441 DWT oil tanker was
InterOil, the holder of a 35.5 percent stake in Papua New Guinea’s PRL 15, said the Papua LNG project’s construction could start in 2018.
