Singapore’s offshore oil rig builder Keppel Offshore & Marine said on Monday that it has made full payment of the fines and damages worth around $65m to Brazil under a leniency agreement that had been set out in December last year. The fines are penalties for corrupt payments made by a former agent...
Americas
Port of Long Beach aims to become the world’s first zero-emissions port
Port of Long Beach executive director Mario Cordero last week declared 2023 the “Year of Imagination” for the port, saying that imaginative initiatives will drive it in its goal to become the world’s first zero-emissions seaport. Among the projects planned, Cordero announced the port’s bid to...
https://splash247.com/port-of-long-beach-aims-to-become-the-worlds-first-zero-emissions-port/
Port of Oakland stake in solar array goes online, bringing power from solar to 30%
The Port of Oakland’s stake in a newly expanded solar array at Antelope Valley Solar Ranch in Lancaster, California, went online last week, delivering renewable energy to the port’s owned and operated utility. The utility sells electricity to tenants at both the Oakland Seaport and the Oakland...
Freightos celebrates NASDAQ launch
Hong Kong-based freight booking platform Freightos started trading on the NASDAQ yesterday under the ticker symbol CRGO after merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), saying the move will raise more than $80m to fund its growth strategy. Zvi Schreiber, the founder of Freightos...
Ocyan inks semisub deal with PRIO
Brazilian offshore service provider Ocyan has signed a 730-day operation contract with PRIO, formerly PetroRio, to operate the ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig . The 2011-built rig is in Trinidad and Tobago and operations in Brazil are expected to start in August 2023. Last October, Ocyan sealed...
Maersk Supply Service picks up Brazilian contract
Denmark’s Maersk Supply Service has sealed a deal with TechnipFMC for the towing and mooring campaign of Petrobras’s Búzios 6 project in the Santos Basin pre-salt area offshore Brazil. The scope covers the pre-installation of the mooring system and hookup of the P-78 floating production storage and...
https://splash247.com/maersk-supply-service-picks-up-brazilian-contract/
Freeport LNG completes repairs at Texas plant after June fire, moves to begin restart process
Freeport LNG, whose Texas liquefaction plant on Quintana Island, Texas, was closed after a fire on June 8 caused significant damage, has asked US regulators for permission to begin restarting the facility. The company is looking “to commence cool down of its Loop 1 transfer piping and reinstate the...
California lawmakers introduce federal bill to permanently ban offshore drilling along US Pacific coast
Two Democratic members of Congress from California – Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Jared Huffman – have introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act in their respective chambers, legislation intended to permanently ban oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the coast of...
DOF wins long-term AHTS contract in Brazil
Norwegian offshore vessel owner and operator DOF has won a long-term charter contract from Brazil’s Petrobras for one of its anchor handling tug supply vessels. The 2010-built , owned by DOF’s Norskan Offshore unit, has been fixed for four years with Petrobras holding an additional one-year option....
https://splash247.com/dof-wins-long-term-ahts-contract-in-brazil/
Avangrid appeals approval of power purchase agreements for Commonwealth Wind project
On December 30th, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) denied Avangrid’s request to renegotiate the power purchase agreements (PPAs) it had agreed to in May 2022. Avangrid had claimed that, without concessions from the electric distribution companies (EDCs), the project was...