
The Petroleum Safety Authority has discovered a total of four irregularities and improvement points during an audit of the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Reacher jack-up rig.

The March 2021 grounding of the 20,150 TEU containership Ever Given and the consequent blockage of the Suez Canal had far-reaching implications for the shipping industry.

Certification and classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) and French insurance consultancy BESSÉ have formed a partnership to strengthen cyber security in the maritime sector.

Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), a non-profit group established to further digitalisation of container shipping technology standards, has published interface standards and messaging application programming interface (API) specifications for all 50 event timestamps.

The regulator has launched an investigation following findings of corrosion on Equinor-operated Troll C platform’s gas compressor coolers.

An accident during vessel decommissioning operations in waters offshore Libya has resulted in the deaths of at least three Tunisian workers.

Oil major Shell has restarted production at its Mars and Ursa platforms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida earlier this year.

A recent study jointly developed by Dutch Port of Amsterdam and classification society DNV has concluded that ports looking to supply new zero or carbon-neutral fuels to ships will need to pay special attention to spatial safety when planning ahead for locating and building bunkering infrastructure.

The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM), a voluntary organization in the Netherlands tasked with saving lives at sea, describes its experiences with safeguarding the offshore energy industry workforce.

Clyde Training Solutions (CTS) has officially opened a training centre dedicated to the renewables industry to help the UK’s workforce realise the country’s green energy ambitions.

The PSA, Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, has confirmed Equinor will not get consent for Johan Castberg until the operator corrects all nonconformities.

ZIM Kingston, a Malta-flagged Panamax containership, lost about 40 containers overboard during heavy weather off the Strait of Juan de Fuca on 22 October.

PSE Kinsale Energy is preparing to move a Stena Drilling-owned rig to a final location as part of the decommissioning campaign of the Kinsale gas fields.

BP has confirmed that five crew members on its platform off the UK have tested positive for Covid-19 and have been flown to shore.