Archive for the ‘Tankers’ Category
The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) unanimously approved construction of a second dock and associated storage that would add LNG and other energy products to the proposed Gibbstown Logistics Center in southern New Jersey. The commission’s June 1…
MARKET: Oil prices rise on tanker attacks
June 14th, 2019 by Latest News
Oil futures rallied on the New York and London markets June 13 following attacks on two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz although crude settlements failed to completely recover from the previous trading session losses of more than $2/bbl.
Sentinel Midstream subsidiary Texas GulfLink submitted a license application with the US Maritime Administration May 30 to construct and operate a deepwater crude oil export facility near Freeport, Tex. The completed facility will be capable of fu…
Equinor: Johan Sverdrup lift sets record
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Equinor reported “the heaviest lift ever performed offshore” at Johan Sverdrup oil field under development in the Norwegian North Sea.
US prospects for LNG bunkering uncertain
April 1st, 2019 by Latest News
LNG-fueled ships still account for only a fraction of the US and global fleets, and it may take several decades for significant benefits of LNG-powered vessels to be realized.
US prospects for LNG bunkering uncertain
April 1st, 2019 by Latest News
LNG-fueled ships still account for only a fraction of the US and global fleets, and it may take several decades for significant benefits of LNG-powered vessels to be realized.
Resumption of oil and gas geological and geophysical (G&G) data gathering on the US Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf after more than 30 years would help advance scientific knowledge as well as identify and determine the value of potential resou…
Time to set sail anew
March 19th, 2019 by Latest News
As the Jan. 1 deadline for implementing IMO 2020 regulations moves closer, most discussion has centered on three paths by which shippers might reach the new global 0.5% sulfur limits on maritime fuels: burning the cleaner fuel, installing exhaust scrub…
Texas Colt—a proposed joint venture of Enbridge Inc., Kinder Morgan Inc., and Oiltanking—has submitted an application with the US Maritime Administration to construct and operate a deepwater crude oil export port offshore Freeport, Tex.
My major problem as an operating supervisor when I worked for the former Amoco Oil Co. refinery in Texas City, Tex., was not the people, the process, or the plant’s economics; it was corrosion.