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UDPATE The hurricane force storm that was over the western North Atlantic shipping lanes Feb. 23rd-24th has weakened and turned northward towards Greenland,

By Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — BP Plc heads into a sprawling trial Monday over who is liable for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history

ANCHORAGE, AK — The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said it has lifted the order restricting the movement of Shell’s Kulluk drilling rig from Kiliuda

By Captain Paul Watson The captain of the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru lost his temper, and unfortunately road rage with an 8,000 ton ship in remote

As piracy off the coast of Nigeria and in the Gulf of Guinea continues to dominate headlines in 2013, this latest update from the European Union Naval Force

By Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. won court approval of its $1 billion settlement with the U.S. of pollution claims stemming from the

Malaysia-based international offshore oil and gas services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad announced today that its jointly controlled entity, SP Armada Oil

Mercy Ships, the international nonprofit organization that operates hospital ships and provides medical aid to those in need, will be featured on CBS’

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Maritime carbon capture and storage (CCS) “feasible and can reduce emissions by 65%” OSLO and LONDON – Classification society Det Norske

In fact, Shell is sending both Alaskan rigs to Asia for repairs By Brian Swint (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc sent two of its drill rigs in Alaska

(Bloomberg) — A South Korean shipping company with 10 vessels hired out to Vale SA, the world’s largest iron-ore producer, bought an 11th vessel

JUNEAU, Alaska — A research vessel under contract with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was discovered to have sunk early Friday morning while tied to

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said that response crews have completed oil spill cleanup operations on a section of the Lower Mississippi

(Bloomberg) — Deep-water oil exploration has been disrupted from the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil by the discovery of faulty bolts used in safety equipment

A Filipino crewmember aboard the chemical tanker, Pyxis Delta, was shot and killed Monday during an attack by pirates off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria,

By Michelle Wiese Bockmann (Bloomberg) — Some merchant ships are using illegal armed guards to deter pirates off West Africa, prompting at least one

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Iran has taken delivery of several new tankers from Chinese shipyards, giving it greater flexibility in maintaining

YENAGOA (Reuters) – Gunmen ambushed an Indian-owned oil barge on Tuesday as it was being escorted by the military through Nigeria’s Niger Delta

(Bloomberg) — A Chinese patrol boat targeted a Japanese naval vessel with a radar system designed to calculate a range to fire a weapon, Japanese Defense