Dubai-based port operator DP World has acquired 100 percent of offshore services provider Topaz Energy and Marine for a purchase price of more than $1 billion. Topaz operates a diversified fleet of 117 offshore vessels predominantly in the Caspian Sea, the Middle East and North Africa, and West...
Caspian Sea
Saipem: Explosion On Pipelaying Vessel Operated In Caspian Sea
On 8th May, evening, as anticipated by a local company spokesperson, an explosion occurred on the vessel “Israfil Huseynov” operated by Saipem for pipelaying in the Caspian Sea in the framework of the Shah Deniz II project. In the early hours of this morning, the transportation to hospital of the fourteen people involved in the accident, all employees of the Saipem Group, was completed.
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The incident was related to maintenance operations on an item of equipment during...
Fire on Saipem pipe-layer resulted to 14 injuries
According to local reports, a pipe-laying vessel working in Azerbaijan for Italian oilfield service provider Saipem reportedly caught fire on Wednesday, May 8. The vessel was operating in Caspian Sea when the fire broke out.
Allegedly, Saipem commented on local sources that the pipe-laying vessel Israfil Huseynov, which was carrying out work for Saipem, caught fire on May 8, at about 18:30.
The fire on the vessel resulted to 14 injuries. The injured crewmembers suffer burn injuries in various...
https://safety4sea.com/fire-on-saipem-pipe-layer-resulted-to-14-injuries/
Fourteen Injured in Explosion on Pipelayer in Caspian Sea
Offshore contractor Saipem has confirmed that 14 of its employees were injured in an explosion on board a pipelayer in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday. Saipem said the explosion occurred on the Saipem-operated vessel, Israfil Huseynov, which is conduction pipelaying in the Caspian Sea for the Shah...
GAC wins PETRONAS Caspian Sea contracts
GAC wins PETRONAS Caspian Sea contracts
Marine support for drilling and development of new
Towing operation jack up rig Saturn by AHTS Soltan
Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan, 13 March 2019– GAC Marine S.A. branch in Turkmenistan (GAC Marine) has been awarded two contracts by PETRONAS Carigali (Turkmenistan) Sdn. Bhd. (PC(T)SB), a subsidiary of PETRONAS, to provide marine services for its development of the Garagol Deniz West (GDW) field.
GAC Marine will supply three anchor-handling vessels manned by...
http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/03/13/gac-wins-petronas-caspian-sea-contracts/
Oil shipments from Batumi port, Georgia fall to 51% in 2018
Oil and oil-related shipments from Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi fell 51.2 % in 2018 compared to 2017 according to Reuters. An amount of crude oil was re-routed to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline and to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in 2018, whereas some fuel oil was sent to the port of Taman in Russia and Georgia’s other Black Sea port of Kulevi.
Specifically, the decrease occurred partly because Azerbaijan opts to transfer its oil via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline or via its own...
https://safety4sea.com/oil-shipments-from-batumi-port-georgia-fall-to-51-in-2018/
Three crewmen die from poisoning on Iranian cargo ship
A total of 12 crew members onboard the Iranian cargo ship ‘Nazmehr’ suffered poisoning and three of theme died, according to information by Iran’s Ambassador to Baku as cited by local media.
The dry cargo ship was en route from Kazakhstan to Baku, Azerbaijan, loaded with grain, when the crew was sickened by an unspecified ‘chemical substance’ which was used to preserve the cargo. The incident was reported about 21 miles off the island of Pirallahi, in central Caspian Sea.
The Azerbaijani coast...
https://safety4sea.com/three-crewmen-die-from-poisoning-on-iranian-cargo-ship/