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Friday, April 24, 2015
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News

CNOOC Keeps Annual Output Target as Sales Slump

Cnooc Ltd., China’s biggest offshore oil and gas explorer, will keep its annual production target, undeterred by a 40 percent plunge in first-quarter

April 24, 2015
Total Views: 4

Ballast Water Treatment Spending Set to ‘Explode’
Maritime News

Ballast Water Treatment Spending Set to ‘Explode’

Investments in ballast water treatment are set to surge on the ratification of global environmental legislation that would help regulate vessels’ water

April 24, 2015
Total Views: 24

Thursday, April 23, 2015
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News

Saudi Arabia’s Solution to Global Oil Glut: Pump Ever More Crude

Saudi Arabia has a response to the global surplus of oil: Raise output to near-record levels and then pump even

April 23, 2015
Total Views: 36

NATO to Open Anti-Piracy Office in Djibouti
News

NATO to Open Anti-Piracy Office in Djibouti

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed to establish a liaison office in Djibouti to boost anti- piracy efforts off the Horn of Africa, the 28-nation

April 23, 2015
Total Views: 16

Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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Maritime News

BP Readies Defenses as Oil Industry Responds to Shell-BG Deal

(Bloomberg) — As the oil industry takes stock of Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s $70 billion move for BG Group Plc, one company has more to chew on than most.

April 21, 2015
Total Views: 11

Monday, April 20, 2015
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News

Royal Caribbean Tumbles After Reducing Profit Forecast

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. dropped as much as 6.5 percent after the cruise line cut its annual profit forecast, blaming fuel prices and the stronger

April 20, 2015
Total Views: 4

Saturday, April 18, 2015
vitoria 10000 drillship
Finance

Offshore Drilling Contractor Schahin Seeking Bankruptcy Protection

Grupo Schahin filed for Brazil’s equivalent of Chapter 11, becoming the latest Petroleo Brasileiro SA contractor to seek protection from creditors as a

April 18, 2015
Total Views: 126

Friday, April 17, 2015
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News

Santos Nears Start of its $18.5 Billion Australian LNG Export Development

Santos Ltd. expects its $18.5 billion liquefied natural gas project in Australia to start production in about five months, pushing the country closer to

April 17, 2015
Total Views: 5

Thursday, April 16, 2015
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News

Asian Crude Buyers Realize Mexican Oil May Not Have Been Such a Bargain

A few months after snapping up the most heavily discounted Mexican oil in 20 years, Asian refiners are discovering some of these bargains may have been

April 16, 2015
Total Views: 67

Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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News

Oil Trades Near 2015 High on Signs U.S. Shale Boom Is Easing

Oil traded near the highest price this year amid speculation a slowdown in the U.S. shale boom will ease the biggest supply glut since

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 2

South Korea Response to Ferry Disaster Has Been a Tragedy – View
News

South Korea Response to Ferry Disaster Has Been a Tragedy – View

(Bloomberg View) — On April 16, 2014, more than 300 people died when a passenger ferry carrying mostly high-school students sank off the coast of South

April 15, 2015
Total Views: 29

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
LNG Carrier ‘British Sapphire’ Odyssey Shows LNG Market Going Local
Maritime News

LNG Carrier ‘British Sapphire’ Odyssey Shows LNG Market Going Local

The tanker British Sapphire just finished its own version of Homer’s

April 14, 2015
Total Views: 70

Monday, April 13, 2015
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Offshore

Obama Proposes Tighter Rules for Blowout Preventers Five Years After Deepwater Horizon Disaster

The Obama administration proposed tighter rules for the offshore drilling equipment designed to be a last line of defense against oil-well blowouts, five years

April 13, 2015
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Brazil Lawmakers Push for Easing of Deepwater Oil Restraints
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Brazil Lawmakers Push for Easing of Deepwater Oil Restraints

There’s a growing chorus of lawmakers advocating a bigger role for foreign oil companies in Brazil’s prized deepwater discoveries as the national producer

April 13, 2015
Total Views: 8

Sunday, April 12, 2015
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Seen Pursuing Faulted Strategy
Maritime News

BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Seen Pursuing Faulted Strategy

The biggest iron ore producers including BHP Billiton Ltd. and Rio Tinto Group are pursuing a flawed strategy by flooding an oversupplied market and they

April 12, 2015
Total Views: 15

Friday, April 10, 2015
Satellite image of dredgers depositing sand on the northern rim of the Mischief Reef
News

Obama ‘Concerned’ Over China Bullying Others in South China Sea

U.S. President Barack Obama said the U.S. is concerned that China is using its “muscle and power” to dominate smaller countries, hours after China defended

April 10, 2015
Total Views: 11

Thursday, April 9, 2015
Private Equity’s Big Bet on Shipping Falters as Deal Boom Ends
Finance

Private Equity’s Big Bet on Shipping Falters as Deal Boom Ends

“We are all just prisoners here of our own

April 9, 2015
Total Views: 1128

Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Shell-BG Deal Adds to North Sea Job Concern After Oil Collapse
Offshore

Shell-BG Deal Adds to North Sea Job Concern After Oil Collapse

Royal Dutch Shell Plc says its proposed $70 billion takeover of BG Group Plc will boost dividends and share buybacks for investors. North Sea workers in fear

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 3

Shell Will Buy BG Group for $70 Billion, Creating LNG Giant
Maritime News

Shell Will Buy BG Group for $70 Billion, Creating LNG Giant

Royal Dutch Shell Plc agreed to buy BG Group Plc for about 47 billion pounds ($70 billion), making Europe’s largest oil company the pre-eminent player in

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 8

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Maritime News

Grain Silos Torched at Port of Aden

Fighting between Yemen’s warring factions spread on Wednesday, as the country’s main seaport of Aden was engulfed by violence and some of its grain silos

April 8, 2015
Total Views: 49
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