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Friday, March 13, 2015
Big Boy Toys: AHTS Anchor Handling Ops Tilt-Shift Timelapse
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Big Boy Toys: AHTS Anchor Handling Ops Tilt-Shift Timelapse

Here is some tilt-shift video showing a anchor handling operations aboard an AHTS. Tilt-shift photography uses a special high angle lens that creates the

March 13, 2015
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Glencore Ordered to Pay Millions Over Decades-Old Oil Fraud
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Glencore Ordered to Pay Millions Over Decades-Old Oil Fraud

Glencore Plc was ordered to pay just over $40 million to OMV Petrom SA by a U.K. court for fraudulently shipping oil of a lower-than-purported quality to

March 13, 2015
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Turkey Fires On Cargo Ship Carrying Hundreds of Syrian Refugees
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Turkey Fires On Cargo Ship Carrying Hundreds of Syrian Refugees

Turkish coastguards found more than 300 refugees, mostly Syrians, when they seized a cargo ship they had opened fired on for failing to obey an order to stop

March 13, 2015
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Incident Photos: Tanker and Containership in Head-On Collision Off Jebel Ali
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Incident Photos: Tanker and Containership in Head-On Collision Off Jebel Ali

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has released some new photos showing the damage to the containership MV Ever Smart and oil tanker Alexandra 1

March 13, 2015
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Oil CEOs Said to Ask Obama Administration to Lift Crude Export Ban

About a dozen U.S. drilling executives, including ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Ryan Lance, were in Washington this week trying to persuade White

March 13, 2015
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Local Support to Drill Offshore South Carolina Gains Traction

"Offshore energy exploration and production could be an economic game changer for South Carolina," says Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) in a press statement

March 13, 2015
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Shipbreakers Prepare for Record Year

Owners may demolish 40 million deadweight tons of dry bulk carriers, more than double last year’s total, according to Arctic Securities ASA in Oslo.

March 13, 2015
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Anadarko to Terminate Contract for Belford Dolphin Drillship

Dolphin Drilling Ltd says today they have received a termination for convenience notice from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for the contract of their Belford

March 13, 2015
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CGG Open to Technip Partnership After Spurning Takeover Approach

CGG SA Chief Executive Officer Jean-Georges Malcor said he would welcome a commercial partnership deal for seismic oil surveys with Technip SA, after spurning

March 13, 2015
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Momentum Continues For Tugbuilder Sanmar Following Record Year

Turkish shipbuilder Sanmar built 17 tugboats last year, including one pictured above, the Yenicay 1.  It was the most tugs ever built by Sanmar in a calendar

March 12, 2015
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Video: USCGC Polar Star Rescues Australian Fishing Vessel from Antarctic Ice
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Video: USCGC Polar Star Rescues Australian Fishing Vessel from Antarctic Ice

New video just released by the U.S. Coast Guard showing the rescue of 26 fishermen trapped in Antarctic ice back in

March 12, 2015
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AKPS-Crowley Joint Venture Secures Financing for Jones Act Tankers
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AKPS-Crowley Joint Venture Secures Financing for Jones Act Tankers

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA says that its joint venture with Crowley Maritime Corp. has secured a US $325 million credit facility to help pay for a quartet

March 12, 2015
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Oakland Port Terminal Stalls in Labor Dispute After Settlement
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Oakland Port Terminal Stalls in Labor Dispute After Settlement

The Port of Oakland, the fourth-busiest container port on the West Coast, partially shut down in a dispute between dockworkers and management, more than two

March 12, 2015
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Houston Ship Channel Fully Reopened
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Houston Ship Channel Fully Reopened

The Houston Ship Channel was fully reopened Thursday morning after initial salvage plans on a damaged chemical tanker were completed and the ship was

March 12, 2015
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Asia Dry Bulk | Capesize Rates Hold Down as Tonnage Glut Continues
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Asia Dry Bulk | Capesize Rates Hold Down as Tonnage Glut Continues

Rates for capesize bulk carriers, which have been close to six-year lows for the last two months, will remain under pressure as a tonnage glut continues to

March 12, 2015
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Skandi Protector Done With Government Work, Heads Offshore Australia

After four years of contract work for the Australian government, the Skandi Protector (ex Ocean Protector) will now be headed to work for Chevron Australia on

March 12, 2015
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Dampier Port Shuts as Cyclone Olwyn Nears Australian Coast
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Dampier Port Shuts as Cyclone Olwyn Nears Australian Coast

Two ports in Western Australia closed as a strengthening tropical cyclone approached the coast. The system isn’t affecting Port Hedland, the biggest-bulk

March 12, 2015
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DNV GL: Transparent Aluminum Isn’t Science Fiction

In the 1986 movie Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott went back in time, along with the rest of the Enterprise crew to capture a

March 12, 2015
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More Than Half of Mercuria’s South Korean Bunker Traders Jump Ship
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More Than Half of Mercuria’s South Korean Bunker Traders Jump Ship

The nine traders who have left are now in talks to join World Fuel

March 12, 2015
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Paul Allen Live-Streams Musashi Battleship Tour
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Paul Allen Live-Streams Musashi Battleship Tour

In just a few hours from now, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his team of researchers will broadcast a live-stream tour of the wreckage of the Japanese

March 12, 2015
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