Aberdeen-based Ashtead Technology has received accreditation by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) for its calibration laboratory. UKAS assesses a laboratory’s calibration and measurement capability to produce precise and accurate test results by inspecting the technical competence of s
Two and a half years since the crashing of the Super Puma helicopter in the UK North Sea, in which four workers died, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has found that the pilots’ inattention to the flight instruments was the cause. At 1717 hrs UTC on August 23 2013, an AS332 L2 Super Puma helic
Independent oil exploration and production company Tullow Oil has reportedly declared a force majeure on the Jubilee field, offshore Ghana. According to Reuters, Tullow late last week declared the force majeure on two cargoes of crude oil from the Jubilee field due to a problem with a turret bearing
Vroon’s DP2 subsea-support walk-to-work (W2W) vessel, VOS Start, was launched last week at Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in China, and earlier this week, the keel was laid for its sister vessel, VOS Stone. Both vessels can carry a total of 87 persons, offering accommodation and work space f
Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has commenced the dismantling of its Pelamis P2 prototype wave energy converter. The Pelamis P2 001 was acquired by WES in 2014. During its 2-year testing period, the device provided 15,000 hours’ worth of data, which the organisation is now evaluating. As the planned test
The notorious Somali pirate leader Mohamed Abdi Hassan, aka Afweyne, has been sentenced to 20 years of prison for his involvement in the hijacking of the Belgian dredger MV Pompei in 2009. Namely, the Bruges Criminal Court sentenced the so called King of Somalian pirates in absentia together with hi
Florida’s Port Everglades broke its own world record with a preliminary count of more than 54,700 cruise guests sailing in and out of the port in a single day, according to the Broward County’s officials. This is the second time in this cruise season for the port to set the record, taking into accou
United States president Barack Obama is reportedly looking to keep the southeast Atlantic coast of the U.S. off limits for offshore drilling. According to New York Times, which cited a person close to the matter, the Obama administration “yielding to an outpouring of opposition from coastal communit
The announced strike over shift change cuts at Scottish port Grangemouth was launched this morning as the workers stopped all maritime activities within the port’s container terminal, the UK’s union Unite confirmed. The industrial action, which started at 00.01 hours, is scheduled to last for an ini
The initial investigation onboard MOL’s Istra Ace car carrier revealed faulty piping that may have allowed oil to leak from the starboard side of the ship, the US Coast Guard said in an update. The finding comes after an unknown quantity of oil was reported on Sunday to be coming from the Bahamas-fl
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has issued an order to Statoil following the investigation of the hydrocarbon leak at Gudrun platform, in the North Sea offshore Norway, that occurred in February 2015. The safety authority completed its investigation almost a
Singapore’s gas customers will be allowed to import up to 10 percent of their annual long-term quantity from the spot market, according to the country’s trade and industry minister, S. Iswaran.
International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC), a trade association representing the industry that provides geophysical services, has said that the US Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) has been excluded from the five-year planning process for several decades – based in large part o
Vessel sharing agreements have seen a record rise over the recent period due to a demand for increased collaboration in the oil and gas industry, according to Peterson, the UK-based energy logistics provider who served as the facilitator in number of recent deals. From the beginning of 2016, there w
