Turkish Besiktas Shipyard has delivered the Thor Freya seismic support vessel to its owner Thor. The 64 meters long vessel is the last one in the series of four seismic support vessel Besiktas Shipyard has built for the Faroese-based Thor. The shipyard earlier delivered the Thor Frigg, Thor Modi and
With Offshore WIND Conference (OWC) held on 12 October and the first day of Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC) 2015 yesterday, some of the most distinguished professionals from the offshore energy sector have gathered in Amsterdam to discuss the hotest topics within their industry and
The latest LNG cargo to be loaded at Statoil’s Hammerfest terminal in Norway has been dispatched to the United States. LNG tanker Arctic Aurora, with a capacity of 155,000 cbm, departed from Melkøya island on Wednesday and is expected to arrive at the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas around October 29
The first day of one of the fastest growing industry meetings, Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2015 (OEEC), is behind us. The video shows event’s day one highlights which took place at Amsterdam RAI on October 13. This year’s OEEC was opened by Coert van Zijll Langhout, Director of Navingo B
Cairn Energy has hired the Ocean Rig Athena drillship for a drilling campaign in Senegal. According to FAR Limited, a partner in the project, the drilling program is expected to start in the coming weeks. The drillship is currently in Angola, expected to mobilize to Senegal within days. The firm dri
Siemens has signed a contract with Dolphin Energy, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, to extend for an additional 18 years the existing service agreement for aero-derivative gas turbine trains operating at the Dolphin gas project.
The review of the socioeconomic impacts of coal seam gas in Queensland, released by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, examines the growth of the state’s CSG industry, including changes to economic outcomes as well as other factors which influence wellbeing.
UK-based surveillance company Synectics informed it has secured contracts to supply surveillance solutions for three LNG vessels within the Asia Pacific market. The solutions will be installed on board two LNG tankers and an FLNG facility, which will be located in the South China Sea, Synectics said
Lukoil informed that the drilling of the exploratory well Lira-1X has been completed discovering a gas field located at the Trident block (EX-30) in the deep-sea Romanian offshore.
Day one of Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC) 2015, that is being held at Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands, is now behind us, with plenty more to look forward to tomorrow. After the opening ceremony, first day of the conference featured technical sessions on HPHT developments, supply cha
Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) 2015 is in full swing now and one of the keynotes during the first day on Tuesday was the Human Capital Panel. It was organized in cooperation with Deloitte and moderated by Paola Overmars and Marco Hoogerwaard from Deloitte. The panel looked at current
Global demand growth is expected to slow from its five-year high of 1.8 mb/d in 2015 to 1.2 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2016 – closer towards its long-term trend as previous price support is likely to wane, the IEA Oil Market Report for October informed subscribers. Recent downgrades to the ma
Global offshore oil production in ageing fields will fall by 10 percent next year as producers abandon field upgrades at the fastest rate in 30 years, in the first clear sign of output cuts outside the U.S. shale industry, exclusive data shows.
MT Tidal has announced that following the worsening of a prolonged illness, Paul Morris, CEO and cofounder has decided to step down from his post. Morris said: “I have loved this business and firmly believe in its future in being in the ‘mix’ of renewable energy sources that will reduce our dependen
