Tag: offshore industry

Following a natural gas release approximately three miles offshore of Corpus Christi, Texas on September 1st 2020, Texas General Land Office and United States Coast Guard joined forces to shut it down.

ABS issued its updated "Fatigue Assessment of Offshore Structures", which incorporates updated approaches for addressing fatigue including new S-N curves and guidance regarding fatigue strength based on fracture mechanics.

Kuwait Petroleum’s unit KIPIC reported that two sub-contractors died in an accident on Saturday at its LNG plant under construction in Al-Zour. The company noted that they would undertake all the necessary measures to investigate the incident.

BW Offshore announced that all offshore workers that had been kidnapped in early July have been safely released.

The CrossWind consortium, made up from Shell and Eneco, was selected from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy to develop and operate the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind project without government subsidies.

The Port of Vancouver, Washington, reached a new record with the delivery of the largest wind turbine blades to ever cross the pier of a US West Coast port.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), Asiapetro and Novasia Energy inked a MoU with Binh Thuan People’s Committee to develop the 3.5 GW La Gan offshore wind project off the coast of Binh Thuan. 

Several workers onboard the PXA-1 offshore platform owned by Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras were reported to feeling ill, which led to more than 45 workers positive to COVID-19.

Japanese government will tend its focus on developing offshore wind power capacity during the following decade, by building offshore wind farms at 30 sites.

A consortium of maritime companies revealed the concept design of an Autonomous Guard Vessel (AGV) which will boost the offshore industry as well as require lower operating costs due to no crew being required.