Just when we thought the Deepwater Horizon disaster had almost been sorted out… it’s apparent we have a long way to go. Today’s scheduled

Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry fell to their lowest level for three and a half years in the three months ended August 2011, according to

Details of Weekly Incidents By Region – Via U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence WEST AFRICA TOGO: Bulk carrier experienced an attempted boarding on 16

Hyundai Heavy Industries said today that its Korean shipyard has clinched a $530 million order from Noble Corporation for the construction of a new deepwater

  Great Lakes Shipyard of Cleveland, OH has landed $23 million in construction contracts from an affiliate of SEACOR Holdings to build two new

RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Brazil’s emergence as a hot frontier for oil and natural gas was boosted Wednesday by two fresh discoveries, with

By Isabel Ordonez And Alexis Flynn, Wall Street Journal Apache Corp. is substantially expanding its U.K. presence by buying a number of ExxonMobil’s

The Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) says it has taken delivery of an integral part of its expanded containment system, a new Aframax tanker. The 107,500

Maersk Line, Limited and Rickmers-Linie this week announced a joint venture to provide U.S. customers with heavy-lift breakbulk and project cargo shipping

(Dow Jones) US offshore regulators are issuing deepwater drilling permits under new regulations like it was 2009–before the disastrous oil spill in the

Congressman Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, last week reintroduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require all vessels

Pirates set a cargo ship ablaze yesterday after an unsuccessful hijacking attempt. The International Maritime Bureau reports that pirates aboard two skiffs

USNS Spearhead, the first of the Navy’s joint high-speed vessels designed for rapid intra-theater transport of troops and military equipment, was

NOAA’s development of a new navigational chart processing system, designed to meet the changing needs of the maritime community, moves into initial

By Cassandra Sweet, The Wall Street Journal Online The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed a longtime obstacle to Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Arctic

Federal and state government officials said Monday they reached a $44.4 million settlement with the operator of a oil tanker container ship that crashed into

The U.S. offshore regulator, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), has completed its first post-Macondo unannounced spill

Hyundai Heavy Industries says it has won a $400 million order to build two 155,000 cbm LNG carriers for Singapore-based BW Maritime. These membrane-type LNG

MSC Luciana, a 363-meter containership outbound from Antwerp lost engine power this morning and ran aground on a sandbar in the Westerschelde, approximately

A former US Navy SEAL was reported to have been arrested by Mozambique officials yesterday for illegal weapons possession while attempting to free a vessel