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By Marianna Parraga and Alexandra Alper HOUSTON/RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Brazil and Mexico are competing for a diminishing resource: the

By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Navy has three aircraft carriers and their assorted missile-carrying vessels deployed to the western Pacific

By Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — Turkey is getting a giant helper to avoid last December’s gas shortages. The world’s biggest

The Canadian Coast Guard and its federal and local partners are holding a large-scale on-the-water emergency preparedness exercise in the Gulf Islands area in

The U.S. Department of Interior has proposed the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States, which will offer up over 79.9 million acres in

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross sent a report to the White House on Wednesday

A hurricane-force low-pressure system in the northwestern Pacific Ocean is living up to the hype, generating massive heights measured at over 57 feet!

By Christopher Sell (Bloomberg) — Michael Poulsen, senior oil risk manager at Global Risk Management, says U.S. shale producers have demonstrated

Researchers at the University of Warwick have identified what is believed to be the earliest known marine navigation tool ever discovered.  The artifact,

CALGARY, Alberta, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Arctic sea ice may be thinning faster than predicted because salty snow on the surface of the ice skews the accuracy

LONDON (Reuters) – A personal letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic sold at auction on Saturday for 126,000 pounds

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The Asia-North Europe trade will be almost entirely operated by ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) during the

By Ryan Collins and Lucia Kassai (Bloomberg) — Since the first shale gas export terminal opened in Louisiana last year, America’s drillers

By Joe Ryan (Bloomberg) — After years of being sidelined by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, wind farm developers are dusting off plans for

A Unified Command made up of representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, Texas General Land Office, and Bouchard Transportation continue to respond to an oil

By Anna Hirtenstein (Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest oil companies are closing more clean energy deals as pressure to diversify their businesses

BERLIN, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Six crew from a German container vessel have been kidnapped in Nigerian waters, a shipping company said on Tuesday. Four of

The SUNY Maritime College training ship, TS Empire State VI, will return to Ft. Schuyler, New York on Tuesday, October 24, after nearly two months at sea in

Update: This storm has produced significant wave heights in excess of 57.8 feet (19.6 m)! Read the update here. Post-Tropical Hurricane Force Storm Lan will

Is Temporary Jones Act Relief Possible for Reconstruction? By Eric Lee and J. Michael Cavanaugh (Holland & Knight) – Four bills