On December 29th, 2015, Offshore Energy Today informed about a gas leak that occurred aboard Marathon Oil’s Brae Alpha production platform in the UK North Sea. While this was confirmed as a leak to us by Marathon Oil, Oil and Gas People, a job site for the oil and gas industry, has a different side
Some 18 people were evacuated from a Panama-flagged cargo ship after it ran aground on Sunday, December 10 on a breakwater at the approach to the Japanese Sakata port, the Sakata Coast Guard said. The Russian ship has been identified as the City and had left the Russian port of Nakhodka and arrived
More gas than ever before was delivered from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) to Europe in 2015, with 108 billion standard cubic metres dispatched within Gassco’s operatorship, Norway’s Gassco said on Monday. Sent to receiving terminals in Germany, Belgium, France and the UK, this quantity repr
An Indian court has sentenced members of US security company AdvanFort to five years of prison for carrying weapons aboard an anti-piracy ship in 2013. The 35 sailors, including British, Estonian and Ukrainian nationals, of Seaman Guard Ohio were intercepted by Indian Coast Guard off the coast of Tu
The livestock export ship MV Ocean Outback, which spent almost two weeks in Australia’s port of Perth due to engine troubles, departed for South East Asia in the morning hours of January 10, carrying more than 5,500 cattle. In the period of ten days which the vessel, owned by livestock ship operator
The article has been updated to include a statement by Petrofac Petrofac, a provider of oilfield services to the international oil and gas industry, could axe up to 160 jobs in an effort to re-structure its business. In April 2015, in an attempt to cut costs, Petrofac reduced its headcount both offs
Fires raging at Libyan two major oil ports Ras Lanuf and Es-sidra were extinguished on January 8th, the country’s National Oil Co. said. At least five oil tanks were set on fire in a rampage launched last week by the Islamic State militants within attempts to seize the country’s oil assets. Accordin
Oil prices have been extremely volatile since the first trading day of 2016 and hit 12-year lows last week with Brent dropping below $33 a barrel for the first time since 2005, Douglas-Westwood, an energy intelligence group, has said in its DW Monday report. The fall in the Chinese manufacturing ind
Shell’s proposed multi-billion dollars takeover of UK’s BG Group will not be passed by a unanimous vote “FOR” at the upcoming shareholders meeting. At least not according to a statement by Standard Life Investment, a Shell shareholder, which said it will vote against the merger at the shareholders’
PACC Offshore Services Holdings Ltd., an offshore vessel provider also known as Posh, has entered into a joint venture with a Saudi company, in order to deeper penetrate the Middle East market. According to Posh, the joint venture with Saudi Arabia’s Hmood Al-Khalaf Group, is in line with the Group’
Shell’s proposed combination with BG Group came across a first obstacle on the road towards the shareholder vote on January 27 as Standard Life Investment opted to vote against the merger.
Singapore’s Otto Marine Limited will together with an unnamed port operator explore the potential development of a fabrication and marine facility in Batam, Indonesia. According to Otto, a company both building and chartering offshore vessels, the proposed development is strategically located in clo
Norwegian oil company Noreco is exiting an offshore licence that contains the Huntington oil field, located in the UK North Sea. To remind, in November 2015, Noreco was served a notice of default under the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) governing the Huntington licence. The default related to non-p
Cameron LNG said it is moving forward with construction works aimed at adding liquefaction and export capability at its terminal under construction in Hackberry, Louisiana. Cameron LNG is a JV owned by Sempra Energy, Engie (GDF Suez), Mitsui & Co. and Japan LNG Investment, a joint venture formed by
