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This past weekend, Shell’s Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) left Kiewit shipyard in Ingleside, Texas,  and is now making its way to its future home in

The world's largest ship, the MV Mærsk McKinney-Møller, officially entered service today after commencing its maiden voyage in Busan, South Korea,

20-year charter contracts were executed last Friday by Brazilian offshore oil and gas subsidiary Tupi BV for the charter and operation of two new build FPSOs

The EU’s maritime ports handle 74 percent of the region’s total trade and are the primary gateways to the EU’s transportation network.  As

By Michael Grey I may have been taken to task for blaming the cargo (weights) for breaking the MOL Comfort in half, but I am probably on a safer

6 days ago, the hijacked ship MV Albedo sank off Somalia.  Reports at the time indicated that both hostages and captors had drowned in the sinking.  Only an

Kidnappings of sailors on merchant ships in waters off Nigeria and nearby countries surged in the first half as pirates attacked a broader range of vessels and

Seadrill has announced today that it has signed contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships from South Korean yards, DSME and Samsung Heavy

Although most emissions attributed to the maritime sector are released across vast expanses of ocean when a ship is navigating the scarcely populated area

July 12 (Bloomberg) — Bookings of the largest oil tankers jumped to the highest for the time of year since at least 2007 as demand for crude cargoes

Vancouver-based naval architecture firm, Robert Allan Ltd., unveiled their latest design for a the Canadian Coast Guard, a next generation High Endurance

The mighty Emma Maersk is ready to return to service nearly 6 months after a damaged stern thruster caused her to take on water and lose power in the Suez

By Edward McAllister and Oleg Vukmanovic NEW YORK/LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) – In signing up to buy all of Equatorial Guinea’s liquefied natural gas

Nigeria LNG Ltd., Africa’s biggest liquefied natural gas exporter, agreed to pay $140 million in disputed levies to the country’s maritime agency

Louisiana Representative Charles Boustany has a lot of reasons to support the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States.  His district

The general cargo ship Star Fraser arrives in the Port of Charleston with 28 fermentation tanks for Sierra Nevada Brewing Company's new Mills River, N.C.

Hearings in the trial over the 2002 Prestige oil spill, one of Europe's worst oil spills, wrapped up in Spain this week after eight months of

The U.S. Navy's first Mobile Landing Platform (MLP), USNS Montford Point (MLP 1), will depart San Diego today for Naval Station Everett, Washington, the Navy

In an emailed statement today, Japanese classification society ClassNK notes that their Casualty Investigation Team, established in response to the 17 June

Singapore-based offshore contractor EMAS AMC, a subsidiary of Ezra Holdings, has been awarded major new contracts around the world resulting in an increased