Royal Niestern Sander shipyard and a joint-venture between Mercury Sakhalin and Pola have signed an agreement for the construction of the world’s first shallow draft ice-breaking walk to work vessel. Wagenborg was an intermediary between the parties and has contributed to the project with…
Carnarvon Petroleum has issued a progress update on the Dorado field development in the Bedout basin offshore Western Australia, operated by Santos. The proposed offshore facilities include an FPSO and a wellhead platform. Three contractors are working on pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for…
The technology group Wärtsilä has joined a consortium of key partners to form Zero Emission Services BV (ZES), an enterprise aimed at making inland waterway shipping more sustainable. The other founders of ZES are ING Bank, energy and technical service provider Engie, and the…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has reaffirmed that its year-long ‘UKCS Mediation Pilot’ will continue from 1 June 2020. The pilot aims to test the extent to which mediation can resolve certain disputes between oil and gas licensees, operators and infrastructure owners in…
HollyFrontier Corporation will permanently cease processing of crude oil at its 52,000-b/d refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming., and convert the plant into a renewable diesel refinery by 2022 as part of the operator’s increased focus on expanding and integrating its renewables business. Approved by the…
A fire was successfully extinguished on board Suncor Energy’s Terra Nova floating production, storage and offloading vessel on the morning of the 30th May, according to a incident disclosure from the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) on the 1st June. The fire…
UK authorities have approved Ineos’ decommissioning plan for the removal of the Cavendish platform and associated pipelines located in the UK southern North Sea. The Cavendish field is located some 125 kilometres east of the UK coastline at Flamborough Head and 65 kilometres west…
The BMT-designed service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV) Ventus Formosa has started its first long-term charter for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on the Formosa 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Penguin Shipyard International in Singapore built the 36-metre (118-feet) SATV. According to BMT, the…
“After observing the existing wind turbines erected across the country, I was struck with the inefficiency of the design & application, and envisioned a better approach,” said an inventor, from Sacramento, California, “so I invented the WIND MASTER TECHNOLOGY.” The patent pending invention provides a…
Columbus Energy has announced the start of Phase 2 of the CO2 Pilot Project in the Trinity Inniss field, onshore Trinidad. Leo Koot, Executive Chairman of Columbus, commented: ‘The Company is very pleased to have started Phase 2 of the CO2 Pilot Project in…
