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New Jersey Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R) this week introduced a bill to Congress aimed at clearly defining U.S. policy on the surpression of piracy on the high seas

This week’s interesting ship is the new “Ramform W” class seismic vessel, two of which were ordered by Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) earlier

The Maritime Administration has released a new video in honor of the merchant mariners that responded to the September 11th attacks, evacuating hundreds of

ABERDEEN, Scotland (Dow Jones)–The organization tasked with policing safety on U.K. North Sea oil and gas installations said Wednesday it is prepared to

British defense contractor BAE Systems says it has successfully tested an “invisibility cloak” that allows a vehicle, ship or even a building, to

Today, at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen, Britain Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, announced that a new piece of equipment said to be

By Andrew Galbraith in Shanghai and Jason Dean in Beijing, Wall Street Journal A spat over contracts between China’s biggest shipping company and foreign

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CEO), also known as CNOOC, said Tuesday that it is willing to establish a marine environmental

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–The Asian crude tanker market will likely stay weak due to persistent oversupply, while vessels carrying clean petroleum products

By Mohan Malik, Wall Street Journal, above: INS Trishul, an Indian Talwar-class, guided missile frigate Media reports last week of a Chinese warship

Just got an update from our Forum that the recently commissioned Noble Bully I left Keppel Shipyard in Singapore the other day bound for the Gulf of Mexico.

Nordic Sprite, image by Olivier Vitre Nordic American Tankers Ltd. (NAT) said it agreed to buy a double-hull suezmax tanker built at Samsung Heavy

SHANGHAI—China’s coastal waters regulator on Friday ordered ConocoPhillips to suspend production in the country’s largest off-shore oil

JEAN LAFITTE, Louisiana—The center of Tropical Storm Lee stretched across the central Gulf Coast early Sunday, dumping torrential rains that threatened

Liberian-flagged and DNV-classed, Scarabeo 9 is a semi-submersible drilling vessel recently built by Yantai Raffles.  It will be on contract by Repsol YPF for

On December 21st, 2004, former President Bush signed the National Security Presidential Directive NSPD-41 that stated: It is critical that the United States

The UK’s National Archive says it is releasing the records of 1 million Merchant Navy seafarers serving from 1918 to 1941 who were part of

Halliburton Co. (HAL) yesterday filed a lawsuit against BP PLC in Texas state court claiming negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation

Noble Corporation said today that it has exercised its option with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the construction of an additional ultra-deepwater drillship,

(Dow Jones) Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) said Wednesday that it has removed nonessential workers from the company’s Gunnison, Nansen and Boomvang oil