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Fire on Saipem pipe-layer resulted to 14 injuries

9 May 2019

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

9 May 2019

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...

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GAC wins PETRONAS Caspian Sea contracts

13 March 2019

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

4 January 2019

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

22 October 2018

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/

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