Dry Film Thickness and the 80/20 Rule
Film thickness is the one coating parameter everybody measures and almost nobody agrees on. The argument always arrives after the scaffolding is down and the money is spent, and it is nearly always about criteria that were never written int…
When a coating fails early, the paint gets the blame. Most of the time the cause was settled before the first coat went on, in a blast that met one of…
Both terms get used as though they meant the same thing, usually by people commissioning one and receiving the other. They sit on different standards,…
When a container ship burns, the investigation usually ends at a document rather than at the firefighting equipment. A box declared as machinery parts…
Tanker Traffic Faces Growing Peril in Strait of Hormuz as Weekly Attacks Surge
Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid a bigger…
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Petrobras Taps TechnipFMC for Flexible Pipe
October 7, 2026 · 15 hours ago Managing Editor TechnipFMC has won a subsea contract from Brazil's oil & gas company Petrobras to supply flexible pipe systems for developments in Brazilian waters.
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Launch of New Qatar LNG Train Moves to Counter Iranian Attack Losses
The first liquefied natural gas train under QatarEnergy's North Field East expansion project will be ready to start operation in November, two people aware of the company's plans said, offering Qatar a…
Read more →MISC and QatarEnergy Name First of Three New LNG Vessels for Greener Seas Era
October 6, 2026 · 1 day ago MISC has held a naming ceremony for its newest LNG carrier, kicking off a 15-year charter with QatarEnergy and advancing a low-carbon maritime epoch.
Read more →Equinor’s Emissions Project at LNG Plant Becomes Increasingly Costly
The cost of Equinor's project to cut local emissions from Norway's Hammerfest LNG plant and extend the facility's lifetime has risen by more than 30 per cent since last December, the company…
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