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Oil/Petroleum

Port activities linked to oil and petroleum. Includes imports, exports and storage.

Savona port authority to renew Esso and Alkion concessions

Savona, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – By the end of the year, Porti di Savona e Vado Ligure (Autorità di sistema portuale del Mar Ligure...

Port-Sète Frontignan: BP plans embankment in Zifmar harbour

Sète, France (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – UK-based BP and its local subsidiary GDH are planning to build a breakwater in the industrial zone...

Spain’s ODC to invest €35 million in construction of storage complex at Punta Langosteira

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) November 24, 2017 – Spanish company Oil Deposit Corunna (ODC), former Deep Water Oil Transhipment Hub, plans to invest €35...

Cypriot government buys land for Zygi port development

Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – The Cypriot government is set to purchase a stretch of land from the UK government near Vassilikos in...

Petrogress sets up subsidiary to operate Limassol port facility

Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – Petrogress, Inc. is to set up PG Cypyard & Offshore Service Terminal Ltd. (Cypyard) to operate...

Bilbao port attends UK offshore Europe fair

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) and Foro Marítimo Vasco (The Basque Maritime...

Medserv Cyprus completes shore base for ENI

Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) September 30, 2017 – Medserv Cyprus has announced it has completed the development of a shore base for ENI S.p.A....

Constanta port receives ultra-deepwater semi-submersible offshore drilling rig

Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Scarabeo 9, an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned and operated by...

Tenerife city council asks port to move oil rigs away from coast

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 30, 2017 – The Santa Cruz de Tenerife city council has asked the port authority to study the possibility of moving...

BP Oil España applies for expansion of concession at Las Palmas port

Las Palmas, Spain (PortS Europe) August 29, 2017 – BP Oil España, which holds a concession at Las Palmas port for a fuel supply station and a series of...

Cepsa becomes first supplier of RMK500 marine fuel in the port of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – Cepsa, the energy company, has started marketing RMK500 fuel in the port of Barcelona to meet customer...

Repsol voices worries about Punta Langosteira rail link 

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Spanish oil giant Repsol has called on A Coruña port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña) to...

Ukraine diversifies petroleum product imports through its harbours

Mykolaiv, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Ukrainian ports are an instrument of market diversification, a backup against any excesses with...

LBC Tank Terminals applies for extension of concession at Cartagena port

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Spanish company LBC Tank Terminals has applied for an extension of its current concession in the port of...

Azeri oil exports through Novorossiysk port rise 31% y/y in H1 2017

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The exports of Azeri oil through Russia’s Novorossiysk port rose by 31% on the year in the first...

Pemex officially abandons terminal construction at A Coruña port

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Mexico’s state-owned oil company Pemex has officially announced its intention to abandon...

ODN TAY IV platform leaves for Almería after undergoing improvements in Tenerife

Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2017 – The platform  ODN TAY IV has left the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife after undergoing repairs, and is now...

Oryx to operate normally at Las Palmas port by end-September

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Swiss multinational company Oryx Energies, which operates in Las Palmas port as fuel supplier, will be...

Turkey’s Petlim port receives Green Port certificate

Petlim, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Petlim harbour has become the tenth Turkish port to receive a Green Port certificate. The work on the first phase...

KMG International to develop Midia Marine Terminal into Black Sea energy hub

Midia, Romania (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Shareholders of Midia Marine Terminal (MMT), part of KazMunaiGaz International Group, plan to transform the...

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