Leask Marine has taken delivery of the newest addition to its fleet, the MV ‘C-Fenna’. The C-Fenna is a 26.48 meter Neptune eurocarrier 2611, that has been adapted to support the offshore marine renewable sector, especially wave and tidal. The vessel has a bollard pull capacity of over 35 tonne, and
Following an announcement that Centrica would invest £60 million to refurbish its Morecambe Bay platforms, offshore services firm Sparrows has has been awarded a contract to fully refurbish two offshore cranes for Centrica in the East Irish Sea. The 27-year-old cranes are sited on the Morecambe fiel
United States Coast Guard (USCG) officers are taking a much tougher stance with regards to various aspects of ballast water management (BWM) compliance in their routine port state control (PSC) inspections, North P&I Club said referring to local sources. Precisely, all ships calling at US ports and
Modulus Technology, an AAE Technologies Group company, and AML Oceanographic have signed an agreement to act as AML’s representative in the UK and Ireland markets. AML designs and manufactures CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth), sound velocity and environmental instrumentation. These products
There was a 57 percent rise in the number of seafarers affected by piracy in West Africa in 2016, a report on the state of maritime piracy released by the Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) program shows. Last year’s rise in piracy and armed robbery at sea in West Africa saw a recorded 95 incidents overall,
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, announced this year’s licensing round for mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf – Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2017 – with blocks in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea. The Ministry said on Tuesd
The wind turbine nacelles for the 40MW Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Finland have arrived to the Port of Pori.
Singapore aims to be liquefied natural gas (LNG)-bunker ready in the next three years, according to the country’s Senior Minister of state for Trade and Industry, Koh Poh Koon. The minister said this at an LNG bunkering demonstration held at Jurong Port on Tuesday by Pavilion Energy’s unit, Pavilion
Nordic Investment Bank signed an agreement to load €20.4 million to Klaipedos Nafta for the construction of a reloading station for LNG in the port of Klaipeda.
The EDF-operated Dunkirk LNG terminal in France received a cargo of liquefied natural gas from Peru on Tuesday. The cargo to France’s fourth LNG import terminal was delivered onboard the GasLog-owned, 155,000-cbm GasLog Shanghai LNG tanker. The tanker discharged 142,841-cbm of the chilled fuel, term
Six people were killed and over 20 injured on Monday after a crane collapsed at Samsung Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, where modules for Total’s Martin Linge topsides are being built. According to Total’s statement on Monday, the accident happened at 07:45 Norwegian time and no on
The U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has opened an investigation into the activities of the U.S. engineering firm KBR’s UK subsidiaries for suspected offences of bribery and corruption related to an ongoing investigation of Unaoil. The Unaoil probe was launched over a year ago in a case which implica
Dominion’s Cove Point LNG liquefaction project is set to have maintenance work done on the terminal’s natural gas pipeline throughout the month of May.
UK-based energy giant and LNG player, BP almost tripled its profits in the first quarter of this year as it benefited from higher oil and gas prices. Profit adjusted for one-time items and inventory changes increased to $1.51 billion from $532 million in the first quarter in 2016. BP’s first-quarter
