By Offshore Energy Today UK’s RMT union’s representative is fuming against the owners of the Malaviya Seven offshore vessel, detained earlier this week in Aberdeen for not paying its crew, however, he acknowledges that the need for EU Continental Shelf cabotage arrangement is “long overdue.” This is the second time the Indian-flagged vessel operating on…
By LNG World News Hamina LNG Oy, a joint venture between Finland’s Haminan Energia and Estonia’s Alexela, has issued an international tender for the construction of an LNG import terminal in the Port of Hamina, Finland. Hamina LNG intends to build a small-scale import terminal able to receive LNG tankers with a size up to…
By Offshore Energy Today Iceland is keeping its fingers crossed that a Chinese oil company might turn the island nation into an oil producing one. It gave an offshore exploration permission to a consortium led by China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) back in 2014. The license is located in the Dreki area, which is…
By LNG World News Image courtesy of Thun TankersThun Tankers, a Dutch unit of the Swedish shipping company Erik Thun ordered four dual-fuel coastal tankers at Scheepswerf Ferus Smit in the Netherlands. The intention is to offer sister-ships where the use of LNG as a fuel is a possibility, Thunk Tankers said in a statement…
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By Offshore Energy Today After weeks spent moored in Broad Bay, Scotland, the Transocean Winner semi-submersible drilling rig is finally set to depart the UK waters. The rig had been stranded near a beach close to Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland after the harsh weather blew it ashore in August. After that, the rig was…
By Offshore Energy Today.. Oilfield services provider Baker Hughes reported on Friday that the international offshore rig count for September 2016 was down by 47 rigs year over year. According to the report, the international offshore rig count for September 2016 was 221, down 7 from the 228 counted in August 2016, and down 47…
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By Offshore Energy Today.. A recent light oil discovery on the Smith Bay state leases, offshore Alaska, by the oil company Caelus Energy, has sparked an outrage by an environmental group that claims the discovery could further imperil polar bears. This week’s announcement by Caelus Energy that it discovered, and intends to develop, a massive…
By LNG World News Image courtesy of SAFEA wages deal between the trade union for personnel working in the Norwegian energy sector, SAFE, and the employers, has been reached in the early hours on Friday, avoiding a strike of some 338 workers. According to a statement by SAFE, a wages deal has been reached at…