MALAYSIA — Teacher Matziyah Mohd Ladar, 39, of Kangar, Perlis, today received RM25,603 (about US$7,060) in compensation following the drowning of her husband, Aladi Hasan, during a search-and-rescue operation (SAR) in the Kenyir Lake on June 16. A cheque for the amount was presented to her by Fire & Rescue Department deputy director-general Datuk Wan [...]
By Steve Thompson, The Dallas Morning News The death of a 27-year-old man who drowned while diving for golf balls Wednesday is being investigated as an industrial accident, authorities say. Christopher Logan of Lewisville was hired to retrieve golf balls from the water traps around the Las Colinas Country Club golf course, Irving police say.
The Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras has said this week that production from the massive oil fields deep below the ocean floor off Brazil’s Atlantic coast was viable at $40 a barrel for benchmark Brent crude. The “pre-salt” reserves, so called because they are located under a thick layer of salt, can be extracted at a cost [...]
by Perry Williams, Senior Energy Writer, MEED South Korean engineering, procurement and construction contractors are winning contracts based on their low fees, flexibility and willingness to take on risky, fixed-price projects. Any international contractor questioning whether the global recession has scared off South Korean contractors from the region will have received an emphatic “no” in [...]
An extra 25 GW of offshore wind energy could be accommodated around the UK’s shores, in addition to the 8 GW already built or planned, Energy Minister Lord Hunt announced on Wednesday. The findings, a result of the Government’s Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) will enable the Crown Estate to proceed with the third round of [...]
On Thursday, Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua granted amnesty to the militants operating in the Niger Delta region, giving them a period of 60 days to accept it. The announcement was the fulfilment of the Federal Government’s pledge to grant pardon to militants in the oil-rich region.
StatoilHydro says the ramp-up is continuing apace for the Norwegian energy heavweight and its suppliers off the Sogne region of western Norway, with major subsea operations on both Gjøa and Vega – activities intended to prepare the two North Sea fields to start production next year. “We have 20 units at work and are due [...]
Country: null Location: OFFSHORE : Other offshore Release Date: — Time incident occurred: — Type of Activity: Diving, Subsea, ROV Type of Injury: null Function: null Applicabale Filter Categories: System/Equipment failure
By Joe Leahy and Varun Sood BOMBAY — India’s cabinet is trying to resolve a dispute over whether to grant all operators in the oil and gas industry a seven-year tax holiday in an attempt to get its exploration industry off the ground again. The finance ministry last year excluded natural gas from the tax [...]
by Jennifer Larson, Forest Lake Times Kevin Peters’ first commercial diving job of retrieving cars that almost always plunged through the frozen, murky waters in Minnesota during the middle of the night is a far cry from what he’s doing now. Today, the Forest Lake native is co-owner of Florida-based Miami Divers, a stand-alone company [...]
Country: CANADA – North America Location: — Incident Date: 22 June 2008 Time: — Type of Activity: Lifting, crane, rigging, deck operations Type of Injury: Struck by Function: — Applicabale Filter Categories: Struck by,System/Equipment failure
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