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LONDON (Dow Jones)–Oil prices traded lower Tuesday as some investors took profits from a 2% surge in prices the previous day and others stayed on the

Getting updates from your weather routing service can be helpful but many mariners prefer to do their own forecasting at sea. The problem is the maps

Total’s interview with William Andrew Cardno, the Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) of the Elgin Platform.  He describes the evacuation of the

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–About 630 gallons of oil were discharged Monday from a production facility near Head of Passes in the Gulf of Mexico due the failure

A Greenpeace ship is currently hovering around the exclusion zone surrounding the Elgin platform, the site of a large gas leak in the North Sea. “We want

The USCG says it has started to track the Japanese fishing trawler RYOU-UN MARU, aka the Tsunami Ghost Ship, after the weathered vessel drifted into U.S.

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Oil market speculators were bullish on Brent crude prices in the week ended March 27, as fears about supply disruptions increased, though

As we reported early last month, the crew of the 150-meter ship Italian tanker Gelso M was evacuated by helicopter in a heroic fight against fierce wind and

– By Amie Pascoe, Director, BLUE Communications The way that we communicate is fundamentally changing. As a society, our appetite for information and

Reaching from Chile up to the Bering Sea, then down again to New Zealand, the fault lines circling the Pacific Ocean are named The Pacific Ring of Fire and

On the morning of March 24th at 08.00 CET SMIT Salvage successfully completed the removal of fuel from the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia leaving many to

According to Danish media, Maersk has ordered a halt to all man overboard (MOB) drills aboard their container ships following news of a fatality aboard the

Hamilton, Bermuda – Oil and gas companies have increased their level of activity in harsh environment and arctic areas considerably during the last

Auctioneers have unearthed an original photograph of the gigantic iceberg that sunk the Titanic nearly 100 years ago, or at least so they claim. The photo was

It’ll take about 5 hours,  but it IS possible according to the folks at Harris Pye. Harris Pye reports that it has successfully used a 3D scanner to

A new naval weapon has attracted hundreds of thousands of views on Youtube and left most people scratching their heads… is this thing real, or is the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f678c_k4SUc Here is some on-the-water footage of Shell’s new 360-foot ice-class AHTS, the M/V Aiviq, said to be one of

Hamworthy Oil & Gas Systems has secured a contract to supply its innovative LNG regasification technology for the third Hoegh LNG Floating Storage and

The Royal Navy’s newest Type 45 destroyer, HMS Dauntless, departed on her maiden deployment to the south Atlantic where she and her crew will maintain a

STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)–Negotiations on a capital injection to save troubled Danish tanker and bulk vessel operator Torm A/S (TORM.KO) have collapsed,

TOKYO (Dow Jones)–Mitsubishi Corp. (8058.TO) said Monday that it and two other companies have signed contracts to charter and operate a floating

Keppel AmFELS, a Brownsville, Texas-based subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has won a contract from Mexico’s Perforadora Central SA de CV

NEW DELHI (Dow Jones)–India will look to increase imports of crude oil, liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas from Qatar in the coming years,

MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has reassured the chief executives of France’s Total SA (TOT) and Norway’s Statoil

ABERDEEN, Scotland (Dow Jones)–Total SA‘s (TOT) efforts to stem a natural gas leak on a North Sea platform gathered pace Sunday after an onboard