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SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- Sembcorp Marine Ltd. (S51.SG) Thursday said it secured a US$218.5 million contract to construct a jack-up rig for Gulf Drilling

BEIJING (AFP)–A Chinese shipping vessel was hijacked by pirates Friday in the Gulf of Oman, south of Iran, state media said, citing China’s embassy

Need to cut a 30 foot deep trench in the bottom of the ocean floor to run flowlines out to a new production rig? No problem.  Helix Energy Solutions’

Weekly Incidents by Region: MAR 29 – APR 4 WEST AFRICA TOGO: Petroleum products tank experienced an attempted boarding on 4 April while anchored at

LONDON (Dow Jones)–Saudi Arabia’s state shipping company, Vela, is set to ship more oil to the U.S. this month, after a flurry of activity in March

Valiant Petroleum announced today that it had entered into a contract to secure a firm rig slot on the Stena Carron drillship to drill the Handcross prospect

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Severe disruptions are hitting supply of North Sea Forties crude in April, following a serious gas leak on Total SA‘s (TOT) Elgin

Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has officially charged Greece-based Daina Shipping for the the “discharge of harmful substances from ships” in the

Yea right… Yuri van der Sluis interviews social media expert Scott Stratten at the B2B Marketing Forum in Amsterdam, on 20 March 2012. The interview was

Heavy swells off the coast of New Zealand beginning this weekend have caused the stricken M/V Rena’s stern section to further slip off the Astrolabe Reef

An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into

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

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

Both Somalia Report and the Tehran Times are reporting that the M/V Eglantine, a Bolivian-flagged and Iranian-owned bulk carrier hijacked by Somali pirates

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

Will the world’s fastest cruise liner soon be turned into an urban shopping mall? After over a decade sitting idle and collecting rust on a Delaware