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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Falkland Islands Revisited – Deepwater Well Found Dry
News

Falkland Islands Revisited – Deepwater Well Found Dry

Argentina’s largest oil and gas producer, YPF SA, said Tuesday that a deep-water well it drilled off Argentina’s coast came up dry. YPF invested

July 5, 2011
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IMO awards Exceptional Bravery at Sea Award to piracy survivor
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IMO awards Exceptional Bravery at Sea Award to piracy survivor

The Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has unanimously endorsed the decision of a Panel of Judges that the 2011 IMO Award for Exceptional

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 15

MARAN GAS ASCLEPIUS - IMO 9302499 Gilbert Cailler
News

Hyundai to build a pair of LNG ships for Greece’s Maran Gas

MARAN GAS ASCLEPIUS – photo by Gilbert CAILLER SEOUL –  South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries has inked an order for two 164,000m³

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 12

GE LM2500
Engineering News

GE Awarded Chevron Contract To Deliver 3 Gas Turbine Modules

The General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engine Energy giant Chevron Corp. (CVX) awarded General Electric Co. (GE) a contract in the Gulf of Mexico, in which

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 333

COSCO shipping china overseas shipping
News

Cosco Shipping Plans To Spend Around US$1.5 Bln To Buy Up To 40 Ships [Report]

HONG KONG (Dow Jones)–Cosco Shipping Co. (600428.SH), the heavy-lift and project cargo unit of state-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co., plans to

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 7

Extraction Impossible? Rare-Earth Mineral Reserves Found in Pacific
Engineering News

Extraction Impossible? Rare-Earth Mineral Reserves Found in Pacific

SINGAPORE — Japanese explorers have found large deposits of rare-earth minerals on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, British journal Nature Geoscience

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 23

Hyundai provides a quarter of the world’s total shipbuilding capacity [INTERVIEW]
Engineering News

Hyundai provides a quarter of the world’s total shipbuilding capacity [INTERVIEW]

The following article originally appeared in DNV’s Tanker update No. 1 2011. by Magne A. Røe, DNV The Hyundai group of shipyards has the combined

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 7

Maersk drilling drillship
News

Maersk places $1.3B drillship order from Samsung Heavy Industries

Maersk Drilling, a business unit within the A.P. Moller- Maersk group, has declared its option to build two ultra deepwater drillships at Samsung Heavy

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 61

Songa Offshore logo
News

Songa Wins $2.5 Billion Rig Pact

Norwegian oil-rig operator Songa Offshore SE said Tuesday it has been awarded a $2.5 billion contract to charter two new semisubmersible drilling rigs to

July 5, 2011
Total Views: 9

Monday, July 4, 2011
jackup windfarm installation A2SEA
News

Teekay to enter the offshore windfarm installation business

Hamilton, Bermuda, June 29, 2011 – Teekay Corporation (NYSE: TK) (Teekay) today announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with A2SEA

July 4, 2011
Total Views: 14

Royal Navy Fort Victoria support ship
Defense

Royal Navy Thwarts Pirate Attack

Support ship Fort Victoria helped thwart an attack as pirates fired rockets at a merchant ship off Oman. 04 July 2011 Ten pirates in a couple of skiffs made

July 4, 2011
Total Views: 31

Sunday, July 3, 2011
Thad Allen USCG
Defense

US Senate approves resolution honoring retired USCG Admiral Thad Allen

Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran Offers Resolution, Expresses Appreciation to Coast Guard Leader WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate today approved a

July 3, 2011
Total Views: 23

Friday, July 1, 2011
Moonpool offshore drilling riser flex joint
Defense

Coast Guard to use risk-based targeting to enhance oversight of offshore drilling

WASHINGTON – To complement its existing safety inspection regime for foreign-flagged vessels operating in U.S. waters, the U.S. Coast Guard Friday

July 1, 2011
Total Views: 45

Maersk Line, Limited Wins Ice-Strengthened Tanker Time Charter From MSC
Navy

Maersk Line, Limited Wins Ice-Strengthened Tanker Time Charter From MSC

Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) has been awarded a long-term time charter of an ice-strengthened tanker to support the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command

July 1, 2011
Total Views: 20

USCG completes 25,000th search and rescue mission using Rescue 21 system
News

USCG completes 25,000th search and rescue mission using Rescue 21 system

Rescue 21 coverage map courtesy USCG General Dynamics C4 Systems announces that the U.S. Coast Guard completed the 25,000th Rescue 21 search and rescue mission

July 1, 2011
Total Views: 15

ThyssenKrupp MEKO CSL
Engineering News

ThyssenKrupp Drops Parts Of Shipyards Sale To Abu Dhabi Mar

FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)–German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG (TKA.XE) Friday said it had cancelled a large part of the sale of its shipbuilding

July 1, 2011
Total Views: 33

Thursday, June 30, 2011
US Navy Joint High Speed Vessel JHSV
Defense

US Navy Orders More Warships From Austal

MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)–The U.S. Navy has ordered two more Joint High Speed Vessels from Australian shipbuilder Austal Ltd. (ASB.AU) as part of a

June 30, 2011
Total Views: 61

indian ocean piracy
Incidents

Weekly Maritime Crime and Piracy Update: Week of 22 June 2011

Summary of Worldwide Crime and Piracy, week of 22 June 2011 (Source: ONI) GULF OF GUINEA: A chemical tanker was hijacked 26 June at 0245 UTC off of Cotonou,

June 30, 2011
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BOEMRE raises fines for offshore violations
Offshore

BOEMRE raises fines for offshore violations

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Interior Department is asking Congress to increase fines for oil and natural gas companies that break offshore drilling laws, with

June 30, 2011
Total Views: 3

Robert Allan delivers first-in-class designed escort tug
Engineering News

Robert Allan delivers first-in-class designed escort tug

Photo courtesy Robert Allan Ltd. IRSHAD, a joint venture between ADNOC and Lamnalco, have taken delivery of their latest high-performance terminal

June 30, 2011
Total Views: 127
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