Norway’s safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found five non-conformities and six improvement points during an audit of electrical facilities on the Edvard Grieg field, off Norway. The PSA said on Monday that the audit, conducted from May 23 to June 1, targeted Lundin’s work to
Norwegian energy company and LNG player Statoil, with its partners Eni and Petoro, made a small gas discovery in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields in the Barents Sea.
Japan’s biggest city gas supplier and LNG importer, Tokyo Gas and JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corp have cancelled a plan to build two additional natural gas-fired power units at their jointly operated Kawasaki power plant. The two companies submitted the plan back in 2015 to add the two generators with
Is it possible for ships to sail faster through rough water and keep the safety of the crew a priority? Lex Keuning, Associate Professor at the Technical University (TU) Delft, asked himself this question after he had broken both of his kneecaps in a speeding incident at sea. In cooperation with Jaa
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LNG giant Shell to invest billions in new energies to cut emissions The Hague-based LNG giant Shell aims to spend as much as $1 billion a year on its New Energies unit by the end of the decade as it is seeking to lower emissions. Ichthys LNG FPSO to depart South Korea soon Ichthys Venturer, [&hellip
The U.S. is reportedly irritated by the recently signed offshore exploration cooperation agreement between Rosneft and a consortium of Japanese companies. According to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter, the U.S. feels that Japan would, as part of the Group of Seven Allies, be wo
Vroon’s first DP2 subsea-support walk-to-work (W2W) vessel, VOS Start, will start her first offshore wind charter at DONG Energy’s Walney Extension offshore wind farm following her official naming ceremony scheduled for next Thursday, 20 July.
By 2022, the United States will be on course to challenge Australia and Qatar for global leadership among LNG exporters, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates. Despite the fact that the demand for gas in the United States – the world’s largest gas consumer and producer – is growing, the IE
Russia’s largest shipping company Sovcomflot has called for the Russian government to improve navigational safety measures on the Northern Sea Route (NSR).
Offshore WIND Conference is proud to confirm speaker Pieter Van Oord of Van Oord. “There are ample opportunities in accelerating energy transition; we should think bigger and go faster”, comments Van Oord. Van Oord will be joining speakers from among others Siemens Gamesa, DONG, TNO Energy, European
Digitalization is one of the key topics at Community Square. No wonder, because digitalization is a must. At company level. At industry level. At the level of the global economy. That is why OEEC 2017 features a program designed to show how a solid digitalization strategy can maximize benefits and m
Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS) is progressing with the construction of its new DP2 multipurpose diving support vessel (DSCV) Van Gogh at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) yard. According to the company’s latest update, the launching of the ship is planned for the end of July 2017. The vessel wil
