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Hyundai Mipo Dockyard is on a roll with a just-announced newbuild order for eight, 38,000 m³ LPG-carriers from Belgium-based shipping company EXMAR.  The

Weekly Incidents by Region: MAR 22-28 CENTRAL AMERICA–CARIBBEAN CARIBBEAN: Petroleum products tanker boarded on 24 March while anchored at position 18:32

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (PRE) announced yesterday the signing of a natural gas/LNG Liquefaction, Regasification, Storage and Loading Services Agreement

India’s Kerala High Court on Thursday ordered the release of the Italian tanker, M/V Enrica Lexie, that has been embroiled in a diplomatic row between

Rolls-Royce today confirmed a £24 million order to design and equip four platform supply vessels to be built by COSCO Shipyard Co. in Guangdong, China for an

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–FMC Technologies Inc. (FTI) said Thursday it struck a $1.5 billion four-year deal with Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR) for the supply

WASHINGTON — Piracy along the coast of Somalia threatens one of the fundamental foundations of an interconnected global economic system: freedom of

(EUNAVFOR) EU Counter Piracy Naval Forces (EUNAVFOR) have tracked down and stopped a group of suspected pirates who were believed to have tried to attack a

The latest high tech arctic seismic vessel, Polarcus Amani, was delivered today by Polarcus Limited (OAX: PLCS).  This ship is seventh 3D seismic vessel to

MILAN – Saipem announced today they had signed $700 million in new offshore engineering and construction contracts offshore Brazil and Saudi Arabia. In

Bourbon Offshore has held a naming ceremony at Sinopacific Zhejiang shipyard in China for two landmark vessels soon to be added to their fleet: the Bourbon

BIMCO, an international shipping association that shipowners controlling approximately 65 percent of the world’s tonnage, announced today the publication

Statoil has awarded Sevan Marine a study of the potential application of a Sevan FPSO for Statoil’s Skrugard / Havis development in the Norwegian Barents

(Dow Jones) Iraq’s new single-point mooring, or SPM, terminal in the south is loading a third tanker Tuesday at a rate of 800,000-900,000 barrels a day,

UPDATE: We are saddened to report that the injured crewmember, the boat’s chief engineer, died in a Toronto hospital Wednesday morning.  The man, along

MOSCOW (Dow Jones)–Russian state gas firm OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) will begin production at its massive Sakhalin-3 offshore gas project in the Far East in

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Weak demand for North Sea Forties crude due to refinery maintenance season and the availability of cheaper alternatives have prevented

Salvage crews have successfully refloated the tug Invader over a week after it became partially submerged after the drydock housing it sank at Vigor’s

– By Captain Richard Madden Depending on the source, piracy in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa (GOA/HOA) region is estimated to be costing the world