Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 04 – April 10). FMC Technologies is taking legal action against its four former Norwegian employees and their company Optime Subsea Services, established in alliance with subsea installation pla
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The number of onshore and offshore drilling rigs has dropped again, according to Baker Hughes’ latest weekly rig count report. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -7 to 443 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 7 rigs from last week to 443, with oil rigs down 8 to 354, and gas rigs up 1 to 89. U.S. […]
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from April 4 – 10, 2016.
Chevron says Gorgon shutdown to last up to two months, delivers first cargo to Chubu Energy giant Chevron said on Wednesday it expects to resume production at its US$54 billion Gorgon LNG project in Australia in 30-60 days after the Barrow Island facility was shut down due to mechanical problems. IH
The Northwest Seaport Alliance, a newly-created marine cargo operating partnership of the Port of Seattle and Port of Tacoma, has approved its first big investment in redeveloping a terminal in the Port of Tacoma, making it ready for megaships. The investment will see the alliance assign USD 141 mil
The 1984-built general cargo vessel MV Esperanza collided with a RoRo passenger vessel Ezine while the two were transiting the Dardanelles, the Turkish coast guard confirmed. Several vehicles aboard the RoRo vessel were reportedly damaged in the accident which occurred on April 3, while the ship’s s
The Portuguese Dockers Union (SETC) plans to stage a strike in the port of Lisbon, which is likely to affect operations in the ports of Setúbal and Figueira da Foz as well, starting April 20th til May 5th, the union said in a strike notice. The strike will involve all port workers, including also th
A group of armed pirates tried to board a vessel some 80 nautical miles off the coast of Brass, Nigeria, resulting in a second unsuccessful hijacking attempt on tanker vessels in a week, according to reports from ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB). Seven pirates armed with automatic weapons in
Philadelphia Gas Works, a municipally owned gas utility, issued a request for proposals looking to optimize its LNG sales and assets and increase the liquefaction capacity of its Richmond LNG facility.
Offshore services provider Archer Limited has won a five-year contract for the provision of Mechanical Wireline Services for ConocoPhillips on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract was awarded to Archer following a competitive tender process for ConocoPhillips’ well intervention services in
Growth in the volume of world trade is expected to remain sluggish in 2016 at 2.8%, unchanged from the 2.8% increase registered in 2015, the World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates. Imports of developed countries should moderate this year while demand for imported goods in developing Asian economie
U.S. Congressman Steve Scalise is this week leading a bipartisan congressional delegation on an offshore energy tour in the Gulf of Mexico. As part of the tour, which is the eighth annual Offshore Energy Tour, the members have visited a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Scalise
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is under pressure from shareholders to cut annual spending below $30 billion (21.3 billion pounds) after buying BG Group to ensure it can maintain its dividend given the slow oil price recovery. Shell and other large oil companies slashed budgets, s
