Marine Insurance – Offshore Energy
- Sevan Drilling investigation is closed May 9, 2018Norway’s anti-corruption agency Økokrim has closed an investigation into Sevan Drilling. The investigation related to the company’s drilling contracts with Petrobras between....
- New York state plans civilian sea militia to stop offshore oil drilling May 9, 2018New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said that he will enlist a “citizens fleet” of leisure boats and fishing vessels to block any attempt to construct oil-drilling facilities off the shores of ....
- US could relax some Obama-era offshore drilling regulations May 3, 2018The current USA administration has acted to relax some of the tougher offshore drilling requirements imposed in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. However, it has turned down ....
- Drilling mud spilt from Transocean Barents off Newfoundland and Labrador May 2, 2018Drilling on semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents has been halted after drilling fluid was spilt on April 27th during operations off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Transocean ....
- Floating nuclear power plant leaves St Petersburg May 1, 2018Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, left St Petersburg on Saturday April 28th. The non self-propelled vessel will be towed through Estonian, Danish, Swedish ....
- Eni will stay in Cyprus despite island’s drilling dispute with Turkey April 27, 2018State-owned Italian oil company Eni has said that it will not be giving up its interests in Cyprus, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi told reporters in the Cypriot capital Nicosia on April 25th ....
- Legal dispute shuts down Bumi Armada FPSO April 20, 2018Offshore services firm Bumi Armada Berhad has had to shut down FPSO Armada Perdana at Nigeria's Oyo field because of legal action....
- Explosion and fire after dredger hits Texas gas pipeline April 20, 2018The US Coast Guard, Texas General Land Office and RLB Contracting Inc were responding jointly to a gas pipeline fire near Port O’Connor, Texas that broke out on the evening of April 17th ....
- Marine accident round-up : 16th April 2018 April 16, 2018General cargo ship Pac Antares (IMO 9262962) suffered a breach during the morning of April 12th after alliding with a pier on the Mississippi in New Orleans at mile marker 100, during ....
- Upstream sees benign year in 2018 April 9, 2018Although the downstream energy sector in 2017 suffered its worst loss record for nearly 10 years, upstream energy has had one of the most benign loss years on record in 2017 ....