North Sea oil and gas companies are being asked to maintain their support for technical apprenticeships available to young people in the UK oil and gas industry during the current downturn. The call comes on the relaunch of the industry’s apprenticeship programme – now known as the Oil and Gas Techn
Fire Breaks Out on WFSV at Borkum Riffgrund 1 One of the engine rooms of the Beaumaris Bay wind farm service vessel, deployed at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, caught fire on Saturday, 31 October. Scotland Greenlights World’s Largest Floating Wind Project The Scottish Government has gran
Popular news, November 2 – 8, 2015
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from November 2 – 8, 2015. WES: £2.25M for wave energy innovators Wave Energy Scotland has allocated £2.25 million to 8 technology developers and consortia as part of its second competitive call for novel wave energy co
Chevron: Gorgon set for LNG cooldown cargo mid-December (Video) Chevron’s 15.6 mtpa Gorgon LNG project in Australia is in the final stages of commissioning systems to allow start-up of Train 1. Shell appoints new gas chief Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it appointed Maarten Wetselaar Integrated G
Halliburton announced Thursday the pricing of an offering of $7.5 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes. The notes are being issued in five tranches, and the offering is expected to close on November 13, 2015. The world’s second largest oilfield services provider intends to use the net
Mitsui’s chief financial officer, Keigo Matsubara said on Friday that a final investment decision on the Mozambique LNG project will be made by the end of March 2016.
An indefinite towage strike has been launched today at the Port of Barcelona, Spain, Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) informed. The action has been announced by the Confederación General de Trabajadores (CGT) union and will be followed by Tug Barcelona SAR. The strike will comprise three shifts of t
Graham Hacon, CEO of 3sun Group, has been named Director of the Year at this year’s EDP Business Awards. The awards celebrate the best of the south east of England’s business community and have been honouring the achievements and successes of local companies for 25 years. Winners were announced at a
An unplanned outage at the UK’s South Hook liquefied natural gas terminal has reportedly cut gas flows to zero.
Technical activities aimed at removal of hazardous waste and transfer of around 425,000 liters of fuel and about 11, 484 liters of oil from the cracked Mexican bulk carrier Los Llanitos, stuck on the rocks near Mexico’s Barra de Navidad for over two weeks, have been launched. The formal start of the
UTEC NCS Survey, part of UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, was recently awarded a contract for heavy-lift support services for Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Partnering with LDD, the contract covers the delivery of a pile guide frame monitoring system, which will be used for the instal
More ports need to be ready for LNG bunkering, given the global move towards cleaner shipping and higher environmental standards, Chief Executive of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Andrew Tan said at the 3rd Busan International Port Conference (BIPC) in Busan, South Korea. In his
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil might lose some of its interest in the Agbami field, offshore Nigeria. In addition, the company might have to pay NOK 1.6 billion ($187.7M) to its field partners. Currently, Statoil has 20.21% interest in Agbami, operator Chevron has 67.30%, and Petrobras holds th
