Atlas professionals, a Dutch provider of recruitment and HR services for offshore energy industry, will buy Australia’s Programmed Maintenance Services’ international activities of Programmed Marine. Under the acquisition agreement, Atlas will buy 100 percent of Programmed’s international marine act
U.S. president Donald Trump has allocated a budget $171 million for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management for the Fiscal Year 2018. The agency better known under the BOEM abbreviation is responsible for the offshore energy and mineral resources management in the U.S. “President Trump promised the Am
Norwegian floating LNG giant Höegh LNG reported a net profit of US$11.4 million for the first quarter, rising significantly $828,000 from the last three months in 2016.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, which oversees operations and maintenance of Locks and Dam 15, mobilized a maintenance crew to address structural concerns on the downstream guidewall. According to Aaron Dunlop, Operations Project Manager for the Rock Island District’s Mississ
BC Ferries’ Salish Raven, the third and final Salish Class LNG-fueled vessel transited the Panama Canal earlier this week on its way to British Columbia.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander yesterday toured the first finished island of the Marker Wadden in the Markermeer (Lake Marken), near Lelystad, the Netherlands. The Marker Wadden is a project aimed at creating five islands in the Markermeer. The construction of four new islands of the Marker Wadden arch
Piling work on the Poole Harbor’s £10 million new South Quay is in full swing and on schedule, reports the main contractor BAM Nuttall Ltd. The sole purpose of the project, according to Poole Harbor Commissioners (PHC) who awarded the contract, is to ensure that the port remains competitive with fac
Ahead of the international maritime trade event Norshipping 2017 which will be held in Oslo from May 30 to June 2, VesselsValue presents an infographic looking at Norway as a shipowning nation. Taking into account a value of USD 38.2 billion, Norway is one of the top ten shipowning nations by value.
Sirius Petroleum, an investment company focused on oil and gas exploration and development opportunities in Nigeria, has secured a rig for the Ororo field drilling campaign offshore Nigeria. The Ororo field, discovered in 1986, is located within OML 95 in shallow waters offshore Ondo State. It is op
The Penco-Lirquén liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project in Chile has been delayed by up to 18 months, Norway’s Höegh LNG said on Tuesday. The proposed LNG import terminal to be located in Concepción Bay will be Chile’s third and includes an onshore gas-fired power plant. The Norwegian floating
2G Robotics has been selected to supply AUV-based laser scanning, stills imaging, and illumination solutions for Hugin autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to be delivered to the Royal Norwegian Navy. The AUV systems will be delivered by Kongsberg Maritime under the agreement with the Norwegian Def
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has deployed a team of investigators to the Port of Trois-Rivières, Québec, following an accident involving the bulk carrier Nord Quebec in which one person died. Local media reports say that a 38-year-old Filipino man working on Nord Quebec died when
Koch Supply & Trading (KS&T) completed the first ship-to-ship (STS) LNG transfer with private Chinese company JOVO and Malaysian shipowner MISC.
DONG Energy today agreed to divest the entire share capital of DONG E&P A/S to INEOS.
