Wind turbines, like any machine with moving parts, can fail. They have a useful life span, after which the loading on the various pieces including turbine blades and tower could cause decreases in efficiency or, in very rare cases, outright ...
Tags: CeBIT, Monitor Oscillation, Fraunhofer Institute, laser
Inchcape Shipping Services supports offshore operations off the Southern Coast of Africa Thursday, Feb 13, 2014 Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, has secured a further significant ...
The UK government believes there is much greater opportunity in developing the North Sea's remaining oil and gas resources than in the fledgling onshore shale gas sector, and plans to implement speedily recommendations laid out in a final ...
Tags: Shale Gas, North Sea Investment
PROMAR has ordered two Platform Supply Vessels from Damen Shipyards Group and this ambitious Swiss company is looking to further expand the offshore fleet under its management in the next five years. The first Damen PSV 3300 will be ...
Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has informed that it has won a tender for the supply of pipes for the construction of the first phase of the offshore section of the South Stream main pipeline. ...
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has stated that it has successfully passed certification audits confirming that its production of special-size slabs from high-strength and corrosion-resistant steel grades is compliant with the ...
Tags: Steel Slabs, High-Strength Slabs
Norwegian crude oil production in January averaged 1.568 million b/d of oil, up 5.7% from 1.484 million b/d for January 2013, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The latest figure also ...
Tags: Oil Output, Mineral
Norway sold 9.9 billion cubic meters of gas in January, down 6% from 10.5 Bcm a year earlier and below the 10.2 Bcm in December, according to preliminary figures Friday from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. It said gas and oil ...
Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
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Based on the US Commerce Department's most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis(SIMA)data,the American Iron and Steel Institute(AISI)reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of January total 3,080,000 ...
Tags: Steel Import, Steel, Mineral
Russia-based TMK, one of the world's leading oil and gas steel pipe producers, has announced that Threading and Mechanical Key Premium LLC, TMK's service and support center in Abu-Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been certified ...
Tags: TMK, oil, gas, steel pipe
Government incentives for a pair of proposed nuclear reactors could cost U.K. taxpayers as much as £17.62 billion, thus exceeding the reactors' projected cost. The EC figure is a preliminary estimate included in an initial report to ...
Tags: nuclear generation
Marine Ropes are subjected to hostile conditions involving friction, bending, tension and attack from corrosive sea environment. Even the rope hardware such as sheaves, rollers, knots, etc. has a damaging effect on it. In order to ensure ...
Tags: Marine Rope
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) announced today that it has entered into agreements with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) to provide well intervention services offshore Brazil. Helix will be providing the services ...
Tags: Vessels, Service, Transportation
Russia's state-owned Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corporation are in talks over upstream co-operation in Russia, including the Arctic and Far Eastern territories, and could reach concrete agreements by May, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin ...
Tags: Rosneft, Upstream Pact