Australian mining giant Fortescue is continuing its multi-faceted foray into green energy. With support from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), government agencies, research institutes, and industry partners, it has successfully completed propulsion and maneuverability trials of its Singapore-registered Fortescue Green Pioneer in the Port of Singapore. The trials were conducted using 6.4 cubic meters (4.4 tonnes) of liquid ammonia, in combination with diesel and hydrogenated...
Bilbao, Spain, based H2SITE reports that ammonia cracking is gaining traction for onboard power generation as a means of producing hydrogen for use in PEM fuel cells. The company says that it has now successfully validated the first ammonia cracker to produce high-purity hydrogen for marine PEM fuel cell use. In a pilot, an H2SITE integrated membrane reactor has been installed and operated on board Zumaia Offshore’s offshore supply vessel Bertha B, operating in the Bay of Biscay.
Before hydrogen...
Nothing is a better indicator of what’s going on in a given sector than what’s happening in the sale and purchase (S&P) market and Coupeville, Wash., shipbroker Marcon International has just released its latest report on the offshore support vessel market.
Marcon says that of the 13,293 vessels and 3,749 barges it trackedm as of mid-September 2023, 2,933 are supply and tug supply boats, with 207 officially on the market for sale. The brokerage notes that, 50.00% of foreign and 67.01% of U.S....
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/marcon-releases-new-offshore-support-vessel-report/
An incident that began on October 4 with the rescue of 12 people from a vessel that grounded half a mile south of the Cyril E. King airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands during Tropical Storm Phillippe, has reached a successful conclusion. The vessel, the 195-foot Vanuatu-flagged RO/RO cargo vessel Bonnie G, originally delivered in 1981 as an OSV, has been refloated and relocated. It is now safely moored at the Crown Bay Sandfill dock in St. Thomas.
That came after a 26-day saga played out...
https://www.marinelog.com/video/video-bonnie-g-refloated-and-relocated/
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its report into an October 11, 2020, incident in which an offshore supply vessel (OSV) twice collided with a U.S. Coast Guard cutter.
The first collision occurred near Texas Point, Texas, when the OSV Cheramie Bo-Truc No. 33 collided with the Harry Claiborne, a 175-foot coastal buoy tender, when traveling outboard for sea in the Sabine Pass.
The OSV subsequently ran aground. The crew attempted to refloat the vessel,...
Nordic energy company Gasum has bunkered liquefied biogas (LBG) for the first time to an offshore supply vessel (OSV) owned by Swedish oil firm Lundin Energy. The post Gasum delivers first…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/gasum-delivers-first-renewable-biogas-to-lundins-osv/
4 seafarers were caught in a fire in an offshore ship near Mumbai and 3 of them have died a brutal death in the process.
Image Credits: Indian Coast Guard
After the fire the bodies of crew members were recovered and authorities are trying to identify them. 2 bodies are burnt beyond recognition. The third seafarer’s body was recognizable but had severe burn injuries.
The Coast Guard informed that one crew has been taken to a Mumbai hospital on an ONGC helicopter after he was rescued from the fire...
Offshore crew supply ship with 42 passengers on board, suffered engine room fire Jul 9 in Okhotsk sea, reports Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?Offshore crew supply ship BROMPTON SUN with 42 passengers on board, offshore oil rig platform personnel, suffered fire in the engine room in the afternoon Jul 9 in Okhotsk sea off central Sakhalin Island coast. She was sailing to an oil rig.
Fire extinguishedFire was extinguished by the crew. The passengers were taken by offshore supply ship KATUN (IMO...
https://mfame.guru/offshore-crew-supply-ship-suffered-engine-room-fire/
An offshore supply vessel, which was engulfed by fire from the engine room, managed to extinguish the outbreak by its own means, reports Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?Offshore supply ship WILSON ARCTIC suffered fire in the engine room. The fire started at around 1300 UTC Jul 6 in the North sea, N of Domburg, Zeeland, Netherlands.
The ship was en route from Vlissingen to BORSELLE2 (offshore wind farm).
Fire extinguished and ship turned backAccording to reports, the crew managed to extinguish...
Voyager Maritime Alliance Group (VMAG) announced the completion of the biggest project in their 30-year history, the largest superyacht conversion to ever occur in the US. The ‘Big Project’ converted an ex-offshore supply vessel to a superyacht.
The conversion of the vessel began in Louisiana in 2015, and now is the largest private converted yacht to have ever taken place.
The vessel was launched initially in 1997 as the 63-meter Candy Trader offshore supply vessel, later renamed HOS Trader. The...
https://safety4sea.com/usas-largest-ever-offshore-supply-vessel-transforms-to-superyacht/