Offshore permitting delays threaten 125,000 Gulf jobs
The U.S.is set to pay a very stiff price for Department of the Interior efforts to enhance offshore drilling safety in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The resulting delays in
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Eniram and ABB ink agreement on Azipod optimization
Eniram Ltd. has announced an agreement with ABB to integrate Eniram pod optimization technology into the ABB Azipod poddedpropulsion system for newbuild vessels as well as retrofit projects. The dynamic pod optimization,
Meyer Werft books order for small LNG tanker
Netherlands shipping company Anthony Veder, Rotterdam, has ordered a 15,600 cu.m LNG carrier from German shipbuilder Meyer Werft. The tanker will have a length overall of abt. 156 m and a breadth
Mother ship design for deepwater offshore wind farms
Anglo-Dutch company Offshore Ship Designers has launched a new offshore wind farm maintenance vessel concept. It aims to improve the uptime of deepwater wind turbines and reduce maintenance costs and carbon emissions
AIDA ship order gives Siemens something to smile about
Siemens Industry Solutions Division has received an order from Meyer Werft in Papenburg, Germany, to to provide diesel-electric propulsion systems, and power generation and distribution systems for the AIDA Cruises ship ordered
Technip launches floating offshore wind turbine project
Technip (Paris:TEC) is launching Vertiwind, a project that will test a pre-industrial prototype of a floating offshore wind turbine with a vertical axis. Associated with Technip in the project are Nénuphar, Converteam
ExxonMobil and MOL order LNG ships in China
Chinese shipyards continue to make inroads into even the most challenging sectors of the market. China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, is to build four LNG
Bromwich: BOEMRE not moving the goalposts
BOEMRE Director Michael R. Bromwich today tried to allay offshore industry fears that his agency will soon change the rules of the permitting process significantly, thereby creating further uncertainty about what is
API “deeply concerned” by aspects of spill commission report
The American Petroleum Institute said today that the industry has already taken significant action to further improve safety in offshore operations consistent with the recommendations of the presidential commission on the Deepwater
Spill Commission full report seeks big changes
The National Oil Spill Commission set up by President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon tragedy has now issued its full report. It had already released the key findings in a prerelease of