January 17th, 20190Australian oil and gas company Woodside has awarded four contracts for front-end engineering design (FEED) activities for its Scarborough Project offshore Western Australia.
McDermott Australia has been awarded a contract to undertake engineering studies for the floating production unit, which includes the option to progress to an...
January 16th, 20190Trade unionists have acted with predictable ire down under following the news that miner BHP and BlueScope Steel have cancelled a domestic shipping contract, leaving nearly 80 Australian crew redundant.
Under a 17-year arrangement, Australian crews aboard the bulkers Mariloula and the Lowlands Brilliance ship BHP iron ore from Port...
January 10th, 20190A fire was brought under control after a couple of hours today at Rio Tinto’s Camp Lambert port facility in Western Australia. No injuries were reported.
A section of the plant has been damaged in the early morning fire, Rio officials said, but the port has since reopened for business.
Investigations are underway to work out what...
December 21st, 20180Höegh LNG has entered into a 10-year time charter party with AGL Energy for an FSRU at its proposed gas import jetty project at Crib Point in Victoria, Australia. The project is targeting start up in 2020 - 2021.
The FSRU assigned to the project is expected to generate annual EBITDA of between $29m and $31m depending on planned...
December 18th, 20180An alliance of OneSubsea, Schlumberger and Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Woodside for front-end engineering design (FEED) activities at the SNE development, offshore Senegal.
The FEED work involves finalising the costs and technical definition for the development to enable a final investment decision, which...
December 13th, 20180McDermott International and GE’s Baker Hughes (BHGE) have signed an MOU with Australia’s Western Gas Corporation to be the exclusive development partners for the Equus Gas Project off Western Australia.
McDermott and BHGE have also been awarded a contract to support the planning phases of the project, which will see them work with...
December 11th, 20181The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has withdrawn the Australian Certificate for the Carriage of Livestock (ACCL) for the livestock carrier, , after the ship suffered high profile stability issues while carrying thousands of animals. The ship has been unable to leave Australia for weeks after it was forced to return to port...
December 10th, 20186The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will hold discussions with state authorities and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to review whether or not the country will allow the use of open-loop scrubbers in Australian waters.
As it stands, AMSA will permit ships operating in Australian waters to use all scrubber...
November 23rd, 20185In another setback for the Australian livestock exporting community a ship carrying more than 4,300 cows was detained today after it suffered severe rocking from side-to-side as it started a voyage to the Middle East.
The ’s departure from the port of Portland, in Victoria’s southwest, bound for Muscat in Oman was captured on...
November 9th, 20180Offshore engineering service provider Rosenberg WorleyParsons has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract (EPCI) by Lundin Norway in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The services include planning, engineering, prefabrication, offshore installation and commissioning support. The objective of the...
