DONG Energ today awarded a contract to the UK company AMS No-Dig for the design, supply and install cable ducts for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. AMS No-Dig will supply and install three cable ducts approximately 200 metres long under the sea defence at Horseshoe Bay, south of Grimsby.
DONG Energ today awarded a contract to the UK company AMS No-Dig for the design, supply and install cable ducts for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm. AMS No-Dig will supply and install three cable ducts approximately 200 metres long under the sea defence at Horseshoe Bay, south of Grimsby.
Searcher Seismic, an independent multi-client company providing seismic datasets and associated products to the oil & gas industry, has through its Seisintel product range provided a snapshot of global seismic activity in March. Seisintel, launched in August 2015, uses S-Automatic Identification Sys
Australian LNG player Woodside and its partners have decided not to move ahead with the multi-billion Browse FLNG project at this time due to the current economic and market environment. Woodside said in a statement on Wednesday that the Browse JV partners decided not to go ahead with the FLNG devel
With 12 weeks of 2016 now over, the dry bulk market is still looking bleak, BIMCO says, seeing that the current low demand for transportation of commodities continues. The market is doing what it can by scrapping old ships and restraining from ordering new ones despite 12-year low newbuilding prices
Japanese company Obayashi Corp. is looking into developing a 455MW offshore wind project off Akita Prefecture, and could start an environmental survey already this month to decide the final wind farm’s size, according to the national media. Obayashi is already involved in two offshore wind projects
A damage assessment conducted on the grounded bulk carrier Sparna revealed multiple fractures, the largest being 25-foot by 5-foot wide with a visible boulder lodged inside, the United States Coast Guard said. The report, submitted by Ballard Marine Construction early on Tuesday morning, showed sign
Deepwater Wind has hired Dutch wind power consultancy company Ventolines to supervise the installation of five wind turbines at the construction site of America’s first offshore wind farm, with work starting right away. Anne de Groot, Director at Ventolines, said: “For this project Ventolines will b
Qatargas is looking to Britain and the Netherlands in an effort to weather a looming global glut of gas supplies by expanding import deals into Europe’s most liquid markets, industry sources said.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct two Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sales on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Lease Sale 241 in the Central Planning Area and Lease Sale 226 in the Eastern Planning Area will make 45 million acres
New Zealand Oil & Gas has informed that the joint venture in PEP 52181 (Kaheru), offshore South Taranaki, has submitted an application to surrender the permit. New Zealand Oil & Gas, the operator, announced in February that economic conditions could not support drilling the prospect before the commi
A Gazprom delegation headed by Russian company’s CEO Alexey Miller visited China on Tuesday to discuss gas supplies with Chinese officials. Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller met with China’s Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and Wang Yilin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of CNPC, according to a statement by the
Swiss-based Ineos said on Wednesday it has delivered the first-ever cargo of shale gas-sourced ethane to Europe. The Ineos Intrepid has arrived at the company’s petrochemicals plant at Rafnes in Norway, carrying 27.500 m3 of US shale gas-sourced ethane, Ineos said in its statement. As reported by LN
The US-built fleet is considerably older than the global, non-US built fleet as a consequence of the Jones Act, which requires vessels travelling between US ports to be US built, owned, flagged and operated by a 75-percent American crew. The current US-built fleet has an average age of 33-years old ver
