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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Statoil Awards Hull Contract for Giant Aasta Hansteen Spar
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Statoil Awards Hull Contract for Giant Aasta Hansteen Spar

Statoil has awarded Technip a letter of intent for construction of the hull for the world’s largest Spar platform on the Aasta Hansteen field. This will

July 11, 2012
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
$60 Million Worth of Sudan Crude Marooned Off Singapore
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$60 Million Worth of Sudan Crude Marooned Off Singapore

(Bloomberg) — More than 15 miles offshore Singapore a black-and-red hulled tanker has been stranded for about 150 days holding South Sudanese crude worth

July 10, 2012
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News

Iranian Oil Breaks the Gauntlet with Indian Tankers, and Insurance

MUMBAI–United India Insurance Co. has agreed to provide protection and indemnity cover to Indian tankers carrying oil from Iran with General Insurance

July 10, 2012
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News

ExxonMobil Starts Production at Kizomba, Offshore Angola

IRVING, Texas- Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited (Esso Angola), has started

July 10, 2012
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Summer Marches Relentlessly Onward While Shell Faces Further Delay to Arctic Drilling Campaign

LONDON–Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSB.LN) controversial plan to drill for oil in waters off Alaska’s Arctic coast faces delays as the company

July 10, 2012
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Incidents

LPG Carrier Rescues Chinese Fishermen in South China Sea

On June 30, Linden Pride, an NYK-owned LPG carrier rescued four Chinese fishermen in the vicinity of a fishing trawler sinking in the South China Sea. Linden

July 10, 2012
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News

Oil Prices Fall as Offshore Strike Ends, China Shows Lower Crude Imports

(Bloomberg) — Oil fell after Norway ended a strike that threatened to halt output by western Europe’s largest crude exporter and as China reduced

July 10, 2012
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News

Shipping Rally Set to Fall off Another Cliff

(Bloomberg) — Record coal stocks at power plants in China, the biggest consumer of the fuel, are threatening to reverse the rally in rates for commodity

July 10, 2012
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Monday, July 9, 2012
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News

Lockout Averted on Norwegian Continental Shelf, Strike Ends

(Bloomberg) — Norway’s government ended a 16-day dispute between offshore oil and gas workers and their employers, averting a lockout that had

July 9, 2012
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Blog

Ship Video of the Week! Quadcopter Plus HD GoPro = AWESOME

On board the MV Pioneer, Australian marine engineer and videographer Luke Annells captured some very unique perspectives of his ship by using a

July 9, 2012
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News

Jack-Up Rig Rates Show No Signs of Letdown with Latest Contract from Glencore

For those analysts who were predicting jack-up day rates to remain flat for the forseeable future, international offshore drilling contractor, Atwood Oceanic

July 9, 2012
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Danaos’ Fleet of Containerships Expands with Latest 13,100 TEU Monster, Hyundai Ambition

ATHENS – Greek containership owner, Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC), announced today that on June 29, 2012, it took delivery of its fifth and final 13,100

July 9, 2012
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News

Chevron Plans to Invest Billions in Rosebank, Harsh Environment North Sea Field

LONDON–Chevron Corp. (CVX) will invest billions of dollars developing a giant offshore project in a remote and technically challenging corner of the

July 9, 2012
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News

Lower US Gasoline Demand Creates Glut of Medium Range Tankers

(Bloomberg) — The surplus of tankers available to haul European gasoline across the Atlantic Ocean is set to remain at the highest in at least a year as

July 9, 2012
Total Views: 37

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News

Saudi Arabia Imports Cheap Oil from Europe

SINGAPORE–Saudi Arabian Oil Co., or Saudi Aramco, is shipping fuel oil from Northwest Europe to the Red Sea to meet Saudi Arabia’s peak domestic

July 9, 2012
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News

Chinese Demand for Iron Ore Points Lower

SYDNEY (Dow Jones) –Iron ore exports from Australia’s Port Hedland in June slipped 4.4% from May to 21.5 million metric tons, but were 16% higher

July 9, 2012
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News

Maersk Oil Goes Underground, Danish Underground that is

(Dow Jones) Maersk Oil, the oil and gas arm of Danish conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S (MAERSK-B.KO), Monday said the state-run oil and gas company

July 9, 2012
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News

No Progress Made Over the Weekend, Offshore Lockout Imminent

STOCKHOLM–No new meetings have been scheduled between parties in the Norwegian oil strike, and a costly shutdown of all production in Western

July 9, 2012
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Friday, July 6, 2012
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Defense

ONI Issues Maritime Warning for the Indian Ocean

Via the US Office of Naval Intelligence: The following is a maritime warning for mariners operating in the Gulf of Oman, North Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and

July 6, 2012
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News

Supply of North Sea Forties Crude Sharply Lower [REPORT]

LONDON (Dow Jones)–The volume of North Sea Forties Blend crude available for August is sharply lower than in July, a trader who had seen the loading

July 6, 2012
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