Rob Almeida

StealthGas Inc. (NASDAQ:GASS) announced today their plans to offer 8,000,000 shares of its common stock in order to partially fund the acquisition of five

 There are currently 94 LNG carrier new builds on order.  Here’s where they are being built, and who’s buying them. Data via: Petroleum

In front of one of the most packed audiences of last week’s LNG 17 conference in Houston, Texas, ExxonMobil’s Chief Offshore Engineer, Ro Lokken,

A fisherman pulls in his net as the 49k DWT product tanker, Alnasl Star transfers cargo at the northwestern Saudi Arabia port city of Duba on 20 April 2013.

It’s been a good couple days for Samsung Heavy Industries. After winning an order for two LNG carriers yesterday, they have just announced another big

Samsung Heavy Industries added another 462.3 billion won ($409.38 million) to their backlog today with the order of a pair of LNG carriers for a Joint

Since May 2010, Transocean’s Cajun Express has been drilling offshore Brazil for Petrobras at a healthy day-rate of $517k per day. UK-based energy firm

Located about 425 km off Western Australia’s northern coast, the Browse Basin was expected to be one of Australia’s next major LNG production

“Stand by for some big news,” mentioned Bob Burke when I ran into him in Connecticut this spring. I met Bob a little over a year ago when we

At 0540 local time on Wednesday 26 September 2012, the Indonesian ferry, KMP Bahuga Jaya, sank after colliding with the I.M. Skaugen-owned LPG/Chemical

Teekay Tankers (NYSE:TNK) announced today a $188 million order for four new 113,000 DWT Long Range 2 (LR2) product tankers from South Korea’s STX

PSV Far Strider (1999, VS 483, DWT 4,709) has been awarded a four year contract with a four year option in Brazil by Petrobras. Far Strider is currently

Malaysia’s largest offshore supply vessel (OSV) operator, Bumi Armada, has just awarded Wärtsilä the contract to design the series of four new

    Two of Technip’s deepwater construction vessels, the G1200 (Technip BV), a rigid pipe S-lay and heavy-lift construction vessel, and the

American inventor Thomas Edison would be quite pleased at the recent news from Zurich-based ABB. An early champion of direct-current (DC) electricity, Edison

Maersk announced today that the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) has approved an $800 million expansion of the Tyra Southeast development in the Danish

New York-based tanker company Overseas Shipholding Group announced last night that it has, in effect, fired its Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Mr.

For the many thousands of people who have followed the story of the ex-USS Guardian which ran up in a Philippine Reef this past January, the fate of the

While at the Connecticut Maritime Association Conference in Stamford, Connecticut, I met up with Tom Boardley, Marine Director at Lloyd’s Register.  

Jumbo Shipping’s Fairpartner called on Seattle, Washington recently to deliver a rather unique, and awesome piece of equipment… Nicknamed