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Houston-based American Ethane Company has unveiled plans to build 17 very large ethane carriers (VLECs) to transport U.S. ethane to China. The 150,000 cbm

Sporadic discharges that have been observed coming from the grounded car carrier Golden Ray in St. Simons Sound, Georgia, as authorities continue to refine the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The implementation of the IMO 2020 0.5% sulphur cap on shipping from 1 January next year is “a challenge and an

DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) – The detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is “free to leave,” Iran’s ambassador to the United

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Leading ports, banks, oil and shipping companies on Monday launched an initiative which aims to have ships

For the first time ever, scientists will use a modern research icebreaker to drift in the ice for an entire year, allowing scientists to investigate the Arctic

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest offshore wind park planned off the coast of England will probably in the next decade generate power

Top management of US-based salvage and offshore decommissioning company Ardent will buy-out the company from founding partners Svitzer and Crowley after

By Rania El Gamal and Stephen Kalin ABQAIQ, Saudi Arabia, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Saudi state oil company Aramco said it will bring back by end September

By Collin Eaton and Jonathan Saul HOUSTON/LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – A disruption in global oil flows following attacks on Saudi Arabian facilities has

By Christopher Martin and David R. Baker (Bloomberg) –Dominion Energy Inc.’s customers have been pressing the Virginia utility giant for years to

Virginia-based electric utility provider Dominion Energy is proposing the United States’ largest offshore wind development off Virginia’s coast. The

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Energy infrastructure on the U.S. Gulf Coast was hit hard by Tropical Storm Imelda on Thursday, as flooding

Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku is postponing delivery of Costa Cruise’s new flagship vessel, the LNG-powered Costa Smeralda, by one month, the

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) –The U.K. is set to open the first contest in a decade intended to draw as much as 20 billion pounds ($25 billion) of

The Unified Command responsible the Golden Ray incident in Georgia’s St. Simon Sound is developing plans to remove fuel from the vessel as crews come up with

By Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) –The tallest, most powerful wind turbines ever made are coming to U.S. waters care of General Electric Co.

By Susanna Twidale LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Britain has launched its first major auction of offshore wind farm leases in a decade, offering sites with

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A wave of ULCV deliveries this year has pushed the total containership fleet capacity over the 23m teu mark, with the

Danish offshore wind developer Ørsted has agreed to divest its power distribution and two other businesses to focus on renewable energy. Ørsted said the deal