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It’s simply amazing what website analytics will tell you these days… Update: …someone here needs to check their calendar.    

Keppel FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine, said Thursday that it has secured contracts from Mexican drilling company, Grupo R, to

ATHENS, March 27 (Reuters) – A makeshift bomb exploded outside the home of a prominent Greek ship owner in central Athens on Wednesday, shattering

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) on Tuesday announced that it has struck oil at the Coronado prospect off the coast of Louisiana in the deepwater Gulf of

Scorpio Tankers Inc. (NYSE: STNG) on Tuesday said it has agreed to construct six additional eco-friendly, LR2 product tankers for a total cost of $300 million,

By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, March 25 (Reuters) – The officer in charge of safety on Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, destroyed in a BP

HONG KONG, March 25 (Reuters) – China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd won its first orders to build two jack-up rigs worth more than $360

Effective April 1, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, will jointly establish MI LNG

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its long-awaited findings from a study examining the affects of modifying the Jones Act for

BP refrained today from bidding on any new oil-drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) following the US government’s recent decision to prevent the

Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said Wednesday that its surveyors will inspect Sea Shepherd Australia’s vessel, the SSS Sam Simon, and

Editor’s Note: We’ve heard it before; the number one cost faced by shipowners is the cost of fuel. With that in mind, A.P. Moller-Maersk, with an

COTONOU, March 20 (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen West and Central African nations have pledged to combat the growing threat of piracy and maritime crime in

On Tuesday March 19, 2013, Shell’s Kulluk drilling rig was loaded onboard the Chinese heavy lift ship, Xiang Rui Kou, in Captain’s Bay, Unalaska in

By Jonathan Saul and Asma Alsharif LONDON/CAIRO, March 20 (Reuters) – When it raises tolls in May, Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority will know that fuel

CALABAR, Nigeria, March 19 (Reuters) – At least 45 people died when a wooden boat carrying 166 people from southeastern Nigeria capsized off the coast, a

By Allen Johnson Jr. and Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. crew on the Deepwater Horizon “should have done more” to prevent

Speaking yesterday at Connecticut Maritime Association’s Shipping 2013 conference in USA, Mr Masamichi Morooka, Chairman of the International Chamber of

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Thursday released the findings of a Departmental review of Shell’s troubled 2012 Arctic operations,

By Sabrina Willmer and Devin Banerjee March 13 (Bloomberg) — Wilbur Ross Jr. is seeking $500 million for a new private-equity fund that will buy