Equinor has received consent from Norway’s regulator to use Shelf Drilling’s jack-up rig for drilling ops at a field in the North Sea.
Almost nine in ten major ports globally are exposed to damaging climate hazards, according to new research from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI). Being located in hazard-prone areas along the coast and close to rivers, which are exposed to storms and floods, ports will
PGS’ 3D seismic vessel Ramform Hyperion yesterday took onboard 89 refugees coming from Afghanistan that it had encountered while in transit from Greece to Malta. Ramform Hyperion came across a small sailboat with refugees onboard early on 8 January and made contact with the Italian coastguard who in
Norway’s regulator has carried out an audit of Neptune’s management of major accident risk and barriers at a gas & oil asset in the North Sea.
Norwegian regulator is set on to reinforcing and developing improved measures for the follow-up of serious petroleum-sector incidents.
Norwegian offshore safety regulator has given Equinor its consent to use a COSL Drilling-owned rig for drilling at a field in the North Sea.
Action has been taken to minimise the risks of accidents and improve safety of offshore oil & gas infrastructure, but incidents still occur.
The search for four people aboard a downed helicopter, which went down in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, has been suspended.
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has launched a search and rescue (SAR) mission for four people aboard a downed helicopter in the Gulf of Mexico.
US liquefied natural gas (LNG) export company Freeport LNG has updated the timing of the initial restart of its liquefaction facility in Texas which has been shut since June. To remind, the facility has been shut down following the explosion incident that occurred on 8 June. At first, the restart of
Oil and gas giant Shell has shut down production at its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility offshore Australia after a fire broke out on 21 December. “On Wednesday 21 December at 16:25 AWST, there was a small fire detected on board Prelude in a turbine enclosure. The fire was quic
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has via helicopter medevaced an injured crewmember from an oil tanker vessel located approximately 58 miles southwest offshore Southwest Pass, Louisiana. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call at 4:58 a.m. on 20 December from personnel on board crude oil tanker P
Two yards from Turkey have been removed from the EU List of Ship Recycling facilities as they failed to meet the requirements of the union’s ship recycling regulation. The European Commission said that one yard failed to sufficiently protect its employees’ working conditions, and the other was de-li
A crew member of MSC Resilient III, a sub-Panamax containership, has died following an onboard incident earlier today while the vessel was undergoing cargo operations in South Port in Bluff, New Zealand. The incident was confirmed by the Maritime Union of New Zealand adding that the emergency servic
