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Iron ore climbed to the highest in a month on speculation China’s plans to speed up $1.1 trillion of infrastructure projects this year will boost demand amid

It’s been an interesting and tumultuous year in the maritime and offshore sector with both regulatory and commercial drivers contributing to really

Brazil's prosecutor-general Rodrigo Janot on Tuesday called for the replacement of state-controlled oil company Petrobras' top management and punishment of

Chevron made the official announcement today that oil and natural gas production has begun at their massive Jack/St. Malo floating production

A corpse found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia is thought to be that of the last person unaccounted for almost three years after the luxury liner sank,

The Johan Sverdrup field holds 1.8 billion to 2.9 billion barrels of oil equivalent and is one of the five largest discoveries offshore

The remaining seven Indian crewmembers of the MV Asphalt Venture have been released by Somali pirates more than four years after the cargo ship was hijacked

Pirates have launched a spate of attacks in the creeks of Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region since last Thursday, killing three policemen and abducting

Toronto-headquartered Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. announced today that it has entered into a three year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and cooperation

Despite falling oil prices, traders in recent weeks have booked just a few tankers to store cargoes at sea as higher freight costs outweigh any profit play for

Malaysia’s largest builder of offshore support vessels, Nam Cheong Limited announced today a planned $30.7 million investment into PT Pelayaran Nasional

The Shell-initiated "Joint Shipping Initiative" has announced $1.5 million in funds to a United Nations Development Program aimed at fighting Somali piracy by

WASHINGTON – The United States on Tuesday became 20th nation to join the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships

The Norwegian government said on Monday it would outline plans in spring next year regarding the electrification of the $20 billion Johan Sverdrup oil field in

U.K. oil companies can stop fretting about Scottish independence and go back to combating a slump in output that’s the steepest of any major

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Even as it faces $50 billion in potential liabilities from the worst U.S. offshore oil spill, BP Plc is leading the effort to extract crude from deep below the

BP Plc, which has paid more than $28 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, seeks to get $750 million of that back by convincing a Texas court that a

Brazilian federal prosecutors accused Batista of financial- market crimes and are seeking to freeze his assets valued at as much as 1.5 billion reais ($641

There are about 300 rigs in the UK North Sea and the cost of decommissioning is expected to exceed 40 billion pounds ($65 billion) until 2040, with expenditure