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In this current oil and gas downturn it is tempting to view the maintenance of a certified HSEQ management system as a costly and unjustifiable overhead when seeking to cut costs and deliver balance sheet efficiency savings in these difficult times.

The certification used for equipment going to the Eurasian Community, which includes Russia, has changed from GOST to EAC. Here we take a closer look at some common questions from manufacturers.

Europe's most used standard for welding procedure qualifications (WPQ), EN ISO 15614-1 has been significantly amended as of the end of July 2017.

The oil and gas industry is evolving and readily embracing innovation and technology to realise and deliver operational efficiencies.

LR hosted the world’s first workshop on full scale hydrodynamic computer simulations at our Global Technology Centre in Southampton in November 2016.

The use of the EN 10204:2004 standard for inspection documents for metallic products has become more widespread, beyond even the European Union. As an independent third party, Lloyd’s Register is working to educate the manufacturing community about t

Since the introduction of MSC.1/Circ.1516 - Maintenance and inspection of fire protection and appliances there has been quite some debate with respect to the application of this on board yachts.

With only 0.13% of the global tonnage required to meet the entry in to force criteria, the IMO Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention will have an impact right across the yachting industry.

The past 70 years have seen the way we live and work transformed by two tiny inventions. The electronic transistor and the microchip are what make all modern electronics possible, and since their development in the 1940s they’ve been getting smaller.

At the end of 2015, the United States Coast Guard (USGC) released a policy letter focused on port state control (PSC) examinations for foreign flagged yachts.