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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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Drillers Seen Gaining From Oil-State Senators Atop Committee

They’re senior senators from two of the nation’s top oil-producing states, longtime friends who are about to begin a partnership that has environmentalists

February 11, 2014
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Pentagon Responds to Iranian Naval Plans In Atlantic

The Pentagon said on Monday it was unconcerned by an Iranian announcement that it would send naval vessels toward U.S. maritime borders, noting that lots of

February 11, 2014
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Singapore Reinforcing Safety of Navigation Following Recent Vessel Collisions
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Singapore Reinforcing Safety of Navigation Following Recent Vessel Collisions

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore says it is conducting investigations into three separate collisions involving commercial vessels in and around

February 11, 2014
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Cameron LNG Terminal Gains U.S. Export Approval

The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday approved exports from Sempra Energy's Cameron liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Louisiana as the Obama

February 11, 2014
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Inmarsat Promotes SatComms Australia to Gold Service Provider Status

Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT.L), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, today announced that SatComms Australia, a provider of mobile

February 11, 2014
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Power Failure Causes Seven Week Backlog of Ships at Richards Bay Coal Terminal

At the end of January, a municipal power failure caused South Africa’s Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) to shut down while shipments of coal continued

February 11, 2014
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News

Island Innovator Comes Up Dry Near Johan Sverdrup

Island Innovator, the Marrac ASA-owned and Odfjell-managed semi-submersible drilling unit, has come up dry on a well drilled for Lundin Petroleum offshore

February 11, 2014
Total Views: 83

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Total Expands Offshore Drilling as $7.3B Campaign Finds Dry Hole

Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Total SA began life as Cie Francaise des Petroles, or CFP, almost a century ago. Thirty years since changing its name, the French

February 11, 2014
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Castaway Jose Salvador: Blame the Tehuantepecer?
Blog

Castaway Jose Salvador: Blame the Tehuantepecer?

By Surfline/Buoyweather Chief Meteorologist Mark Willis By now you have likely seen the media coverage of Jose Salvador’s story. If not, Jose is the famous

February 11, 2014
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Monday, February 10, 2014
U.S. to Drop Charges Against CEC Future Pirate Negotiator
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U.S. to Drop Charges Against CEC Future Pirate Negotiator

U.S. federal prosecutors are dropping their case against a Somali man who was accused of negotiating a $1.7 million ransom payment for the release of the CEC

February 10, 2014
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Crew Rescued From Sinking Cargo Ship in Black Sea
Shipping News

Crew Rescued From Sinking Cargo Ship in Black Sea

A general cargo ship carrying timber from Romania to Turkey has sunk in the Black Sea but not before all eleven crewmembers safely abandoned the vessel in life

February 10, 2014
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Incidents

NTSB Releases Sinking of Tall Ship Bounty Incident Report

A captain's "reckless decision to sail into the well-forecasted path of Hurricane Sandy" was the probable cause of the sinking of a ship off the North Carolina

February 10, 2014
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New Zealand Protests Japanese Whalers Creeping Into EEZ
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New Zealand Protests Japanese Whalers Creeping Into EEZ

New Zealand summoned Japan's ambassador on Monday to protest the entry of a Japanese whaling ship into its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), after clashes earlier

February 10, 2014
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Defense

Asylum Seekers Detail Abuse by Australian Navy as Boat Towed To Indonesia

By Aubrey Belford KUPANG, Indonesia, Feb 10 (Reuters) – On New Year’s day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small

February 10, 2014
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Maersk Tankers Orders More MRs from Sungdong
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Maersk Tankers Orders More MRs from Sungdong

In an emailed statement this morning, Maersk Tankers announced their plans exercise their option to order an additional two medium range product tankers from

February 10, 2014
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Sunday, February 9, 2014
Italy Scorns Indian Decision To Try Marines With Anti-Piracy Law
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Italy Scorns Indian Decision To Try Marines With Anti-Piracy Law

Rome harshly criticized an Indian decision to try two Italian marines accused of killing two fisherman under an anti-piracy and anti-terrorism act, in a case

February 9, 2014
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Iran Says Warships Sailing Towards U.S. as ‘Message’
Navy

Iran Says Warships Sailing Towards U.S. as ‘Message’

An Iranian naval officer said a number of warships had been ordered to approach U.S. maritime borders as a response to the stationing of U.S. vessels in the

February 9, 2014
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Icy Illinois River Impedes Barge Traffic
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Icy Illinois River Impedes Barge Traffic

Icy waters on the Illinois River brought barge traffic to a virtual halt this week, slowing transportation of grains and other raw materials to export

February 8, 2014
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New Proposals to Rescue Panama Canal Expansion
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New Proposals to Rescue Panama Canal Expansion

The companies working to widen the Panama Canal and the waterway's administrator on Friday each made new proposals aimed at reviving the multibillion dollar

February 8, 2014
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Rosneft to Develop New Russian Arctic Shipbuilding Complex

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced on Saturday that Russia’s Ministry of Defense had given Rosneft the approval to go ahead with a

February 8, 2014
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