Marine Insurance – Offshore Energy
- Chinese offshore wind energy consortium launched March 13, 2019Syndicate 2088 (China Re), Canopius syndicate 4444 and Travelers syndicate 5000 are to lead a consortium that will provide coverage for the construction and operation of offshore wind farms ….
- Crane collapses at Eni offshore platform: one dead March 7, 2019One person was killed and two more were injured when a crane collapsed during the morning of March 5th at an Italian offshore oil platform run by oil and gas company Eni ….
- Iraq completes repairs on Basra offshore oil terminal February 7, 2019Iraq’s state-run Basra Oil Company has completed repairs on a floating oil terminal in the Arabian Gulf that was damaged by a tanker collision earlier this week. An oil tanker collided with ….
- Some marine underwriters at Lloyd’s probably feel like the Last of the Mohicans: Dominick Hoare January 28, 2019Speaking last Thursday January 24th on "The 10 Golden Rules for successful marine underwriting" Dominick Hoare, Group CUO, Munich Re Syndicate, told an audience in the Old Library of ….
- Marine accident round-up : 4th January 2019 January 4, 2019The US Coast Guard has suspended any active search for one remaining unaccounted for crewmember of the adrift vehicles carrier Sincerity Ace (IMO 9519092). Good Samaritans from four ….
- Exxon explorer intercepted by Venezuela January 2, 2019The Venezuelan navy intercepted a ship in Guyanese waters over the weekend of December 22nd and 23rd. The vessel was exploring for oil on behalf of Exxon Mobil Corp, Guyana’s foreign ministry ….
- AIBN recommends reassessment of regulations re offshore service vessels December 20, 2018The Accident Investigation Board Norway (AIBN) has recommended that the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NA) carry out an assessment of whether its current regulatory framework ….
- Response continues for spill near Port Sulphur, Louisiana December 18, 2018Dozens of boats and more than 100 workers at the weekend were continuing the clean-up and containment an oil spill in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Nearly 5,000 gallons of oil and …..
- Faulty valve said to be the cause of oil spill off Newfoundland November 26, 2018Canada's Husky Energy has said that that it was not yet precisely clear why a valve failed, causing a flowline to the SeaRose FPSO to leak an estimated 250,000 litres of oil ….
- Turkey stakes claim to North of Cyprus gas resources November 7, 2018Turkey will not allow the exploitation of gas reserves in the Turkish and north Cypriot waters of the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday November 4th ….