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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
ships at anchor
News

Limit Sulphur in Shipping Fuel, But No So Fast -Opinion

By Philip K. Verleger (Bloomberg View) — In “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” Ben Franklin imparts a centuries-old proverb about a kingdom lost by a

April 18, 2018
Total Views: 56

Tuesday, April 17, 2018
First Commercial LNG Cargo from U.S. East Coast Sets Sail
Shipping News

First Commercial LNG Cargo from U.S. East Coast Sets Sail

(Bloomberg) – The first export of natural gas from the U.S. East Coast has set sail. Dominion Energy Inc.’s Cove Point terminal in Maryland shipped its

April 17, 2018
Total Views: 30

Monday, April 16, 2018
qe2 final cruise
News

QE2 to Open as Floating Hotel in Dubai

By Zainab Fattah (Bloomberg) — The Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner may finally start generating returns for Dubai after the emirate spent $100 million

April 16, 2018
Total Views: 109

Friday, April 13, 2018
atlantic city coast
News

New Jersey Revives Plan for Wind Farm Off Atlantic City Coast

By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Jim Polson and Elise Young (Bloomberg) — New Jersey lawmakers have revived a long-stalled plan to build a wind farm off the coast

April 13, 2018
Total Views: 65

Thursday, April 12, 2018
semisubmersible drilling rig at sea
Shipping News

New Zealand Steps Up Climate Change Fight With Offshore Exploration Ban

By Tracy Withers (Bloomberg) — New Zealand will stop granting offshore oil and gas exploration permits, saying it is committed to playing its

April 12, 2018
Total Views: 26

Tuesday, April 10, 2018
offshore platforms
Offshore

Editorial: Bahrain Shale Find Should Put Oil Market on Notice

By Robin M. Mills (Bloomberg Prophets) — Bahrain discovered the first oil on the Arab side of the Gulf in 1932. It took a long time for the small

April 10, 2018
Total Views: 75

maersk ship
News

Maersk Considering Female CFO Amid Gender Gap in Top Management

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is considering hiring its first female chief financial officer, as the century-old

April 10, 2018
Total Views: 91

offshore wind farm
News

Offshore Wind Churns Out Big Bank Payoff as Deals Jump to Record

By Anna Hirtenstein (Bloomberg) — The expanding network of giant windmills in the North Sea — the largest such collection in the world — is

April 10, 2018
Total Views: 1185

Monday, April 9, 2018
Deepwater Wind block island wind farm installation
News

The Biggest Problem for Offshore Wind in the United States Might Be the Ports

By Jim Efstathiou Jr. (Bloomberg) — U.S. offshore wind developers have a space problem. Giant windmills with rotors that can stretch as high as 600 feet

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 87

Shell’s Climate Push Fails to Cut Emissions as U.S. Plants Added
Offshore

Shell’s Climate Push Fails to Cut Emissions as U.S. Plants Added

By Kelly Gilblom (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc is demonstrating how tough it is for a massive, 100-year-old oil company to become a

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 21

offshore rig north sea
Offshore

Offshore Giant Awakens: Exxon’s Sweetheart Deal in Guyana Sparks IMF Concern as Deepwater Potential Grows

By Kevin Crowley (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. got such a “favorable” deal from Guyana, home to the biggest new deepwater oil play, that the tiny

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 95

Bosporus Strait Bulker Crash Hits Barley Supply to Top Buyer
Shipping News

Bosporus Strait Bulker Crash Hits Barley Supply to Top Buyer

By Isis Almeida, Cagan Koc and Anatoly Medetsky (Bloomberg) — A ship that crashed into an historic building at Turkey’s Bosporus Strait this weekend

April 9, 2018
Total Views: 86

Sunday, April 8, 2018
News

Pavilion Energy Imports First LNG Cargo for Use in Singapore

by Dan Murtaugh and Klaus Wille (Bloomberg) Singapore’s state-owned natural gas importer brought in its first cargo of a super-chilled form of the fuel for

April 8, 2018
Total Views: 93

Saturday, April 7, 2018
Sea Trials of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier
Navy

Navy Backs Down On Carrier Shock-Testing

By Anthony Capaccio (Bloomberg) The Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian has said the Navy should perform shock-testing soon to determine how well its new $12.9 billion

April 7, 2018
Total Views: 178

Friday, April 6, 2018
Johan Sverdrup jacket installation
Offshore

Mega-Projects Seen Becoming Less Mega as Oil Giants Rein In Costs

By Dan Murtaugh (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest energy companies are ready for big projects again. They just need to be cheaper this time around.

April 6, 2018
Total Views: 23

Harvey Peak Intensity
Shipping News

After Worst Hurricane Season Ever, 2018 Will Be Above Average

Colorado State University’s initial Atlantic seasonal hurricane forecast is calling for a slightly above-average 2018 hurricane season with 14 named

April 6, 2018
Total Views: 78

Thursday, April 5, 2018
sabine pass lng exports
Shipping News

After Targeting U.S. Farmers, Could China Strike American Shale Next?

By Heesu Lee and Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — China’s tariffs in one corner of the energy market signal U.S. shale fields may follow the

April 5, 2018
Total Views: 18

ship emissions
News

Global Shipping Is Part of the Climate Problem, Too: Editorial

By James Gibney and Clive Crook (Bloomberg View) — When almost all the world’s governments agreed in Paris more than two years ago to address

April 5, 2018
Total Views: 15

maersk ship
News

Donald Trump’s Megaphone is Deafening for Shipping Giant -Opinion

By Chris Bryant (Bloomberg Gadfly) — It’s hard to imagine Soren Skou and President Donald Trump getting along terribly well. The softly-spoken boss

April 5, 2018
Total Views: 47

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
jack-up rig
News

Bahrain Seeks Big Oil’s Help to Develop New Shale Discovery

By Wael Mahdi and Mohammed Aly Sergie (Bloomberg) — Bahrain will invite international oil companies to help it develop its first major discovery in

April 4, 2018
Total Views: 47