Gulf Oil International Ltd, part of the Hinduja group, said it has reached an agreement to acquire the lubricant blending plant and associated facilities from Singapore’s Ocean Tankers Pte Ltd. Ocean Tankers is one of a few companies owned by Singapore oil tycoon Oon Kuin Lim and his family that have been put under the …
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A Russian pipe-laying vessel Fortuna has arrived at the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea This is the second time a pipelayer arrived at the construction site in the last week. Pipe-laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy arrived at the site north of Germany and Poland but has since moved …
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South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has won approval in principle for a ship design that is fitted with technology for the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases during ship operations. The design is of particular importance having in mind how COVID-19 has impacted the life of seafarers at sea. Specifically, due to the …
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UK oil and gas company Premier Oil has filed its draft decommissioning programs for the Hunter & Rita subsea pipelines to the UK authorities. Hunter & Rita field layout; Source: Premier Oil The document contains four decommissioning programmes for the Hunter and Rita fields’ subsea pipelines and installations. The Hunter field is located in the …
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Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering has scored a $450 million deal from Posco International to build a gas compression platform offshore Myanmar. According to an emailed statement published in an article by the Yonhap News Agency, the construction of the offshore facility will be completed by 2024. Korea Shipbuilding added that the compression platform will …
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Japanese shipping major Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and its group companies MTI Co. Ltd., Keihin Dock Co. Ltd., and Japan Marine Science Inc. (JMS) have completed a second test of the remote navigation of a tugboat as part of the Japanese government’s project aimed at enabling autonomous ship operations by 2025. Within Tokyo Bay, a …
Chinese shipbuilder Jiangnan Shipyard Co. has won Approval in Principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for its Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) digital ship design, the first AiP for a digital VLGC design in China. LR said that digital systems are considered systems installed on board ships that would conventionally be controlled by the ship’s crew but which, through recent advances in IT and …
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UK Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is considering the creation of a ‘pot within a pot’ for marine energy in the 2021 contracts for difference auction round. Illustration/MeyGen tidal turbine (Courtesy of Simec Atlantis Energy) In a Westminster Hall debate on marine renewables held earlier this week, Minister of State at the …
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Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has completed an agreement with Rosneft that increases its onshore presence in Russia and redirected its remaining exploration commitments offshore in the Sea of Okhotsk. Map of Equinor’s licences in Russia; Source: Equinor Equinor said on Friday that, through this agreement, it has acquired a 49 per cent interest …
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Exports of the chilled fuel from liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in the United States have jumped from the previous week. Courtesy of Cheniere Energy A total of 22 vessels departed the US LNG export facilities during the week between December 3 and December 9, the United States Energy Information Administration report shows. The 22 …
