Global Marine Group Keeping Busy in 2017
Offshore engineering firm the Global Marine Group (GMG) reported a busy first five months of 2017 with a strong outlook for the rest of the year. The company said all key assets from the GMG fleet are currently mobilized, either supporting maintenance zone agreements around the world, or on installation, maintenance or repair contracts. “As we head into the summer months…
OPOL Announces Executive Team Appointments
The body responsible for the offshore oil and gas industry’s voluntary pollution compensation scheme has announced two appointments to its executive team. The Offshore Pollution Liability Association Limited (OPOL) has appointed a new managing director, Jacquelynn Craw, with effect from December 1. OPOL also confirmed the reappointment of its current chairman, Colin Wannell, with effect from January 1, 2017.
Spectra's Platte Pipeline Resumes Operations After Floods
Spectra's Platte pipeline, which runs from Guernsey, Wyoming to Wood River, Illinois, resumed normal operations on Jan. 3 after shutting last week as a precaution due to flooding on the Mississippi River, according to a shipper notice. The 932-mile Platte Pipeline transports up to 164,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Casper, Wyoming, to Guernsey and 145,000 bpd from Guernsey to Wood River.
Pony Express Crude Shipments Exceed Capacity
Tallgrass Energy's Pony Express pipeline, which transports crude from Guernsey, Wyoming to Cushing, Oklahoma, delivered 1 million barrels of oil in the past three days, roughly 3.1 percent above its nameplate capacity, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Crude shipments on the 320,000 barrels per day pipeline have been at records in November, according to trade sources.
Dakota Plains to Build Third Oil Storage Tank at Rail Terminal
Dakota Plains Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it would build a third, 90,000-barrel storage tank for Bakken crude oil at its Pioneer Rail Terminal in North Dakota. The expansion, which will cost $5.5 million, will boost the terminal's storage capacity to 270,000 barrels. The Pioneer terminal in New Town, North Dakota, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation…
Oil-Rich Shetland Elbows into Scotland's Independence Vote
Twelve hours by ferry from the Scottish mainland, hundreds of miles from Edinburgh and closer to Oslo than London, the windswept Shetland islands have their own aspirations about Scottish independence. Some of the 23,000 inhabitants even want their own. Many Shetlanders see the Sept. 18 vote on whether Scotland should end the 307-year-old union with England…
