Shell and Ecopetrol, 50-50 partners in three South Caribbean blocks – Col-5, Fuerte Sur and Purple Angel – have discovered gas in ultra-deepwater in the Gorgon-2 well, located 70 kilometres from the coast and drilled at a depth of about 2,400 metres. “The well confirms the extension of the gas...
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine, through its subsidiary Keppel Shipyard, has been awarded a $2.9bn contract by Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras for the construction of floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel P-80 set for its Búzios field in the Santos Basin....
https://splash247.com/keppel-lands-2-9bn-fpso-contract-with-petrobras/
The Supreme Court of Ohio last week approved a permit for the construction of North America’s first freshwater offshore wind farm, Icebreaker Wind. The six-turbine, 20.7 MW offshore project will be developed by the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) in Lake Erie, north of Cleveland....
https://splash247.com/first-freshwater-offshore-wind-farm-in-north-america-approved-by-court/
Texas-headquartered Excelerate Energy has unveiled plans to expand its fleet of floating regasification units with a newbuild in South Korea. The New York-listed firm has penned a letter of intent with Hyundai Heavy Industries for a 170,000 cu m floating storage and regasification vessel (FSRU)...
https://splash247.com/excelerate-energy-lines-up-fsru-newbuild-in-south-korea/
The US has experienced a shift in the past several months, as container vessels sought to avoid severe congestion on the west coast and moved it increasingly to the east coast as they’ve rerouted. East coast ports have been under pressure, handling higher volumes, longer dwell times and an...
The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is seeking public comment on whether supply chain congestion has created conditions warranting the issuance of an emergency order requiring common carriers and marine terminal operators to share key information with shippers, truckers and railroads. The...
Greek bulker owner Diana Shipping has struck a deal to acquire the entire fleet of nine modern ultramax vessels from Stamford-based Sea Trade Holdings for $330m. The vessels, built between 2015 and 2018 in Japan, will deliver during the fourth quarter of 2022. The New York-listed Diana said the...
https://splash247.com/diana-shipping-snaps-up-sea-trade-ultramax-fleet-for-330m/
Maersk Supply Service (MSS) has been awarded a contract on behalf of Shell Brasil for work on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The scope of the project includes remediation work on two mooring lines of the 1974-built FPSO. MMS said the...
https://splash247.com/maersk-supply-service-awarded-more-work-with-shell-in-brazil/
Carl Bentzel, a commissioner with the US Federal Maritime Commission, issued a statement on August 9, after FMC Chairman Daniel Maffei’s visit to the Port of New York and New Jersey and his assertion there that carriers should not “receive involuntarily subsidized storage for empty containers that...
Yesterday, at the Department of Transportation (USDOT) , secretary Pete Buttigieg and Port Envoy Stephen Lyons hosted a convening of Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) partners to advance the development of the initiative and welcome new members. FLOW, which was launched in March, is a...