American Petroleum Institute named ConocoPhillips’ Chairman and CEO Ryan Lance as board of directors chairman, effective January 1, 2016.
The Russian Navy will receive two new hydrographic motor boats (project 19920) by the end of November. The boats will be capable to perform tasks at the distance of up to 100 nautical miles, RF Ministry of Defence wrote. One of them will be part of the hydrographic service of the Pacific Fleet, the
Norway’s GC Rieber Shipping has taken over the subsea vessel ‘Polar Onyx’ after its charterer Ceona went into administration and failed to fulfill its obligation under the charter agreement. After seeking coverage for its claims, GC Rieber has achieved final settlement with the Administrators to tak
An employee working aboard the SeaRose FPSO in Canada has been arrested for suspicion of possessing ecstasy. According to the Cbc.ca, the arrest took place following a complaint by Husky Energy, the operator of the FPSO, that the contractor might be in possession of illegal drugs. Also, VOCM reports
Third quarter LNG imports into Eastern Asia dropped 4.2 percent according to the international association for natural gas, Cedigaz.
BAKU (Reuters) – BP has suspended operations at Chirag, one of its platforms in the Caspian Sea, for planned maintenance, the British oil company said on Tuesday. “Operations at Chirag have been suspended today for planned maintenance for 25 days,” BP-Azerbaijan said in a statement. It said the work
The LNG construction industry’s order books of new LNG projects will push it to peak capacity in 2015, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Swedish wave energy technology company, Seabased, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Seafaradays Energy Pte Ltd, a New Delhi-based energy project developer. The MoU involves plans for a wave energy plant off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean. The wave energy plant
RenewableUK today highlighted new official Government statistics which show that more than three-quarters of the British public support using renewable energy. The Public Attitudes Tracking Survey published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change shows an increase in the percentage of people
GC Rieber Shipping, a Norwegian company owning subsea, seismic and ice-support vessels, expects the market for its seismic fleet to be difficult in 2016. The company owns and operates four seismic vessels: «Polar Duke», «Polar Duchess», «Polar Marquis» and the «Polar Empress». The Polar Duke has rec
An extended period of lower oil prices would benefit consumers, but would trigger energy-security concerns by heightening reliance on a small number of low-cost producers, or risk a sharp rebound in price if investment falls short, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) in the 2015 edition of it
LNG engineer KBR appointed Ann Pickard as a member of the board of directors.
Bard Offshore 1 has produced more than 2TWh of electricity since the inauguration in 2013, which makes it the first offshore wind farm in Germany to achieve this. From January to October, the wind farm produced 700 gigawatt hours, while in October alone it produced 100 gigawatt hours – enough to pow
U.A.E based Grandweld has delivered the newbuild Dive Maintenance & Support Vessel (DMSV) to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The 50 meter ‘TAWAM1’ vessel will be operated by IRSHAD and used for the dive and maintenance operations in the Abu Dhabi offshore oil fields. The new vessel is fitted
