Marine Insurance – Offshore Energy
- Environmental groups sue Canadian government over oil project May 13, 2022Environmental groups are suing the Canadian government in a bid to overturn its approval of Equinor ASA’s Bay du Nord offshore oil project, according to Sierra Club Canada, which is one .....
- London P&I Club forms new team for Asian Offshore and Specialist vessel business May 11, 2022London P&I Club has created a new structure to cater for what it called a growing offshore and specialist vessel book. The team consists of staff at the Club's Hong Kong and London .....
- California offshore wind plans move another step forward May 11, 2022California's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of potential impacts from offshore wind energy leasing activities in the Humboldt Wind Energy ....
- NOIA Welcomes US offshore wind plans May 5, 2022The US National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) last week welcomed the news that the US government was looking to open areas off Oregon and in the Central Atlantic for offshore wind .....
- Seacor Power First Mate refers to “whiteout” ahead of capsizing May 3, 2022The First Mate of liftship Seacor Power (IMO 8765682), which capsized in the Gulf of Mexico on April 13th 2021, has described the weather at the time of the event as a "whiteout", although ....
- Exxon declares force majeure on Russian Sakhalin-1 operations April 29, 2022The Russian unit of oil major Exxon Mobil, Exxon Neftegas has declared force majeure for its Sakhalin-1 operations, where it has become increasingly difficult to ship crude due to sanctions ....
- Ørsted asks for ‘No-Sail Zones’ after wind turbine breaks, falls into sea April 7, 2022Offshore wind developer Ørsted has asked authorities to establish no-sail zones at some of its offshore wind farms after the catastrophic failure of an offshore wind turbine at a Danish .....
- Staff evacuated after fire breaks out on North Sea FPSO April 6, 2022A fire broke out in a store room at FPSO Petrojarl Foinaven (IMO 8887595), at BP's Foinaven field, west of Shetland, on Saturday April 2nd. The fire necessitated an evacuation of .....
- Hibernia halts crane operations twice in a week after near-miss incidents March 29, 2022A crane on the Hibernia platform of Hibernia Management and Development Company (HMDC) was lifting a mini container on March 20th when it made contact with a scaffold hoarding ....
- Oil spill into Irish Sea from pipeline leak February 24, 2022Approaching 500 barrels of oil have spilt into the Irish Sea after a pipeline leak off the UK. Eni UK has confirmed that a hydrocarbons release of less than 500 barrels or about 80,000 litres .....