Uruguayan Navy has detained four stowaways that threatened the crew aboard the bulk carrier Friederike. The four men reportedly boarded the 57,400 dwt bulker while it was in the Nigerian port of Lagos. In the morning hours of October 21 the authorities received a distress call from the ship’s captai
Brazil’s oil and gas agency ANP has defined the criteria for winning blocks in the 2nd and 3rd Pre-Salt Bidding Rounds set to be held on Friday in Rio de Janeiro. The two rounds will offer blocks for exploration and production of oil and natural gas, on a production sharing basis. According to the A
French energy company Engie has said it has launched a strategic review of its upstream and midstream LNG activities. The company confirmed this on Monday, following press speculation that it is in talks to sell its LNG business to its rival and compatriot, Total. Engie, formerly known as GDF Suez,
The OPEC-Non-OPEC producing countries that last year agreed to a deal to keep the oil production limited to stabilize oil prices are delivering more than promised, the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) said on Friday. According to JMMC, for the month of September 2017, OPEC and participa
Two more bodies of seafarers, former crew members of JBB De Rong 19 dredger, have been recovered in Singapore territorial waters since the fatal collision between the dredger and tanker Kartika Segara that occurred on September 13. This brings the total body count to four of the five persons that we
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) is set to commence the first pre-lay grapnel run campaign at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site to clear the inter-array cable routes from debris and prepare them for cable installation.
OLT Offshore LNG Toscana said that Richard Fleischmann is the new managing director of the company, representing Uniper shareholders.
Six crew members, including the captain, were kidnapped from the Liberian-flagged containership Demeter while the ship was sailing some 50 nautical miles south-west of Bonny, Nigeria on October 21st. An armed group of eight pirates managed to board the boxship after an exchange of fire, a Dryad Mari
Mexico Pacific Limited said that Aecom Capital’s Infrastructure fund pledged to invest in the development of its LNG liquefaction complex on the Gulf of California in Mexico.
The Port of Hamburg has seen a steep rise of ultra large container vessels (ULCVs) visiting the port over the past two years. In the first half of 2017, ships with a capacity of 18,000 TEU or more called at the port 54 times – more than five times as compared to the first half […]
DONG Energy has awarded Robertson Facilities Management a one-year contract for hard and soft facilities management services at the new O&M base in King’s Wharf, Birkenhead, which will serve both Burbo Bank and Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farms.
Liquefied natural gas supplies to France’s Dunkirk LNG import terminal are continuing to rise as the third ship docked on Monday at the facility in just over a month. The facility previously received a cargo from Qatar on October 2 and a shipment from Norway on September 19. Prior to that, the impor
The United States Energy Association, together with the Department of Energy will unveil an LNG handbook designed to aid sub-Saharan Africa to develop LNG infrastructure.
From PERSPECTIVES, a digital publication from DNV GL – Oil & Gas DNV GL forecasts world energy demand will plateau from 2030 Oil and gas will supply 44% of global primary energy in 2050 Gas will be the largest single source of energy from 2034 Significant investment needed across the oil and gas val
