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The wind farm installation vessel Innovation, owned by the HOCHTIEF subsidiary HGO InfraSea Solutions is currently installing rotor stars offshore Germany at

A rare occurrence recently in the Pacific Ocean as more than 40 international naval ships joined together for a single photo shoot.

An oil tanker has started loading a cargo of condensate, or ultra-light oil, the first such export from the United States since the easing of a 40-year-old ban

Phillips 66, the refining company that saw its shares drop last month on news of expanded U.S. oil exports, said second-quarter profit declined 9.9 percent as

Ireland finally found treasure at the end of the rainbow, or so it seemed in

By Mike Wackett, UK-based containership owner Global Ship Lease (GSL) has revealed it has contracted revenue of $900m in long-term charters on 15 of its fleet

Rick and his wife Wanda were in the Bay of Exploits, Newfoundland when the iceberg they were observing suddenly collapsed right before her eyes. Let's just say

A planned three-hour whale watching cruise off the Massachusetts coast turned into an all-night affair for 163 people aboard a boat that limped back into

Saipem announced today the award of four new offshore drilling contracts worth $540 million for clients operating offshore Indonesia, Nigeria, the Arabian

Luxury yacht builder Perini Navi completed the mast stepping operation today of Perseus3 a 60 meter sloop with one of the tallest masts in the world. Built of

Acting on a request from the central government in Iraq, a U.S. judge has signed an order telling the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a cargo of oil from Iraqi

A U.N. Security Council committee on Monday blacklisted the operator of a North Korean ship, which was seized near the Panama Canal last year for smuggling

Pelayaran Bahtera Adhiguna, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s state-owned power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PT PLN) has placed an order with Qingdao

Tor Olav Trøim, the financial wizard that helped enable the many successes of Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen announced today his intentions to step

An oil tanker floating off the coast of Texas is waiting to unload its cargo of oil from the Kurdish region of Iraq after receiving clearance

Six teenagers who survived South Korea's worst maritime disaster in 44 years told on Monday how classmates helped them float free as water flooded their cabins

ExxonMobil Corp., operator of a $19 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea, said the development is producing at full capacity after

40 days after leaving Samsung Heavy Industries, the 9,750-ton topsides structure for the Valemon platform offshore Norway was suspended in the air below the

Dryad Maritime has reported that 7 armed Indonesians boarded the anchored product tanker MT Ji Xiang around 2 nautical miles south of Teluk Ramunia, Johor,

The world’s 20th FSRU has commenced operation over the weekend. The Hoegh LNG-owned PGN FSRU Lampung completed receiving its first cargo of LNG through

Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd., whose shares have posted an 11-fold gain in Sydney trading this year, expects a proposed export project in Canada will cost about

Bergen-based NorYards BMV (previously Bergen Group) held a naming ceremony for the 142 meter offshore construction vessel North Sea Atlantic.  In

China should boost imports of food so it can dedicate more of its scarce water supplies to energy production, especially in arid but coal-rich regions like

The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner limped into its last port on Sunday, when it was towed to the northern Italian city of Genoa to be broken up for

Singapore LNG Corp., which operates the Asian city-state’s first receiving terminal, is set to get a liquefied natural gas cargo for its third tank delivered