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Federal prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges against BP’s two top employees on the Transocean oil rig Deepwater Horizon that blew up in 2010, the

By Joyce Koh (Bloomberg) — CMA CGM SA, the world’s No. 3 container shipping company, is in talks with lenders to finance its potential takeover bid for

by Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) Transocean Ltd., the biggest offshore-rig operator, won a contract to drill four wells off Norway for Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. was ordered to pay almost $160 million for its role as part-owner of the doomed Gulf of Mexico well that in 2010 caused the biggest

The Pacific Ocean is warm. Very warm. Last week, NOAA‘s U.S. Climate Prediction Center announced temperatures reached 3 degrees Celsius

By Jasmine Ng (Bloomberg) — Most-active iron ore futures in Singapore sank below $40 a metric ton for the first time on concern that the economic

by Lily Nonomiya  (Bloomberg) Japan plans to renew its research hunt for whales in the Antarctic, ending an almost two-year hiatus prompted by an

By Dulue Mbachu (Bloomberg) — Nigeria is investigating the abduction of five Polish crew members after their vessel was attacked by gunmen in the

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The top-ranked analyst covering A.P. Moeller-Maersk has turned bullish on the stock. Investors who listened to Frans

   by Carol Matlack (Bloomberg) – As Europe hastens to find housing for a tidal wave of refugees, some countries

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Seadrill Ltd., the offshore driller controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen, reported its first quarterly loss since

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. surged to its highest in almost seven months in Singapore trading after Southeast Asia’s

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — The number of Norwegian offshore vessels with nothing to do has gone from zero to 100 in just a year. And the woes are

by Michael Heath (Bloomberg) – Japan’s foreign and defense ministers reiterated concerns about China’s strengthening position in the South

by David Wethe and Saleha Mohsin (Bloomberg) – The number of jobs gutted from oil and gas companies around the world has now passed the 250,000

By David Tweed (Bloomberg) – China refuted claims it is militarizing the disputed South China Sea, saying it needs to build facilities on

By Isabel Reynolds (Bloomberg) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told President Barack Obama he’ll consider sending the country’s maritime forces

By Joyce Koh Pooja Thakur Mahrotri (Bloomberg) France’s CMA CGM SA is in exclusive talks to buy Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., as global shipping

By Manisha Jha and Naomi Christie (Bloomberg) — The cost of shipping commodities fell to a record, amid signs that Chinese demand growth for iron ore and

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — U.S. liquefied natural gas producers face an unlikely challenge as they prepare to enter global markets: China has more