Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted to announce that well-known maritime disputes expert Mike Phillips has joined the firm as a Partner in London. He moves from Stephenson Harwood, where he has been a partner for 12 years, six of which as head of their Marine & International Trade group. Mike specialises in maritime …
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Norwegian energy giant Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety agency for the use of the Island Wellserver vessel for well intervention operations in Norway. The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) said on Monday it had given Equinor an extension of consent to use the Island Wellserver well intervention facility in 2021. This consent …
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Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has delivered Singapore’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering vessel, FueLNG Bellina, to FueLNG, a joint venture between Keppel Offshore & Marine and Shell Eastern Petroleum. FueLNG Bellina; Image by Keppel O&M Built in Keppel O&M’s Nantong shipyard, FueLNG Bellina is the second LNG bunkering vessel and fifth …
Qatar’s Nakilat, the world’s largest LNG shipper, has taken delivery of a newbuild LNG carrier, Global Star. Courtesy of Nakilat The vessel will be commercially and technically managed in-house by Nakilat. Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), this is the second out of the four LNG carrier newbuilds to be delivered to Global …
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Japanese classification society Class NK has published its Guideline for Survey and Facilities/Equipment of LNG Bunkering Ships, which outlines the additional safety requirements of liquefied gas carriers that supply LNG fuel at sea. As explained, there are currently no established international conventions for the facilities/equipment of ships that transfer LNG to other ships at sea, …
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The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) of the Philippines has denied the petition filed by the National Renewable Energy Board (NREB) for Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) for electricity generated from ocean energy resources. The Philippine flag (Courtesy of the Government of the Philippines) Consequently, NREB was directed to file a separate petition for a new Ocean FIT rate …
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When it comes to flags, size matters. Despite their tiny populations Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands together hold 560 million gross tonnage of global tonnage. The Marshall Islands, the smallest, has a ship for every 18 citizens. These three have resided at the top for over a decade thanks to their flexibility and ease-of-use …
Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest producer, defused Jan. 2 a sea mine attached to a tanker in the Persian Gulf without impact on crude exports or loadings, the oil ministry and the State Oil Marketing Organization said in statements. Iraqi authorities discovered on Dec. 31 the sea mine on the tanker Pola in international waters in the …
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Indian born, Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa-led Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd is weighing a bid for Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI), the ‘navratna’ state-owned company which has been put up for privatisation by the government. On December 22, the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) invited expression of interest to privatise SCI by …
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The modern car carrier could not have evolved without the period of dual-purpose and converted ships. Today, a car carrier is referred to as a pure car carrier (PCC) or a pure car and truck carrier (PCTC). Looking like a floating garage, the largest of these can carry up to 8,500 automobiles. The difference between …
