Per Harald Kongelf (photo) has been appointed executive vice president (EVP) for the Energy Development & Services (ED&S) business area in Aker Solutions with immediate effect. He replaces Jarle Tautra who will continue to work for Aker Solutions as a special advisor to the CEO. Kongelf comes from t
Russia will invest over $400 billion in the development of its gas sector by 2030, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Monday… (rian.ru) [mappress] Source: rian.ru, October 12, 2010;
Claydon Reeves is a new, UK-based design consultancy specialising in creating distinctive, bespoke exterior designs for superyachts up to and over 100 metres. Directors James Claydon and Mike Reeves share 15 years’ design experience during which they have worked for some of the world’s top superyach
As from today the Danish tug operator Nordane Shipping offers harbour towage and escort towage in the Swedish port of Göteborg. The Danish company has stationed their two latest tug newbuildings at Göteborg, manned and ready for work 24/7. The two tugs will have permanent station at a private pier n
Cypriot container vessel, the Jork Ranger, and a Greek tanker, the Mindoro, have collided some 30 kilometres off the Dutch port Scheveningen, Dutch media reports. No person was injured but the tanker sustained a hole of five times six metres. Some of its cargo of kerosene, jet fuel, was spilled and
US container imports are likely to decline for the remainder of the year after reaching their peak in August, according to the most recent Global Port Tracker report from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Hackett Associates.
Foster Wheeler AG,announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Cardon IV, S.A., for new production facilities at the Perla field, located in the Gulf of Venezuela,
The Israeli Department of Defense has cooked up the world’s smallest gyroscope—powered by lasers and as small as a single grain of sand. The new gyros are sensitive enough to track your position and movements anywhere—no GPS required.
Sub-Atlantic Ltd has netted orders for six electric remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems with five different international customers during an unprecedented week of sales activity. The orders are for a Comanche Light/Medium Work Class system for a Far East diving contractor; a second Comanche sys
Wilhelmsen Ships Service has arranged a substantial logistics service for the ‘Latitude’, a 51.8-metre vessel, which was used by the non-profit environmental organization Oceana to study the after-effects of the oil spill from the ‘Deepwater Horizon’ offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
WorleyParsons’ Nigerian joint venture company, DeltaAfrik Engineering Limited, has received notification of a contract extension from ExxonMobil subsidiary Mobil Producing Nigeria for provision of engineering and project delivery services for the “Satellites Phase 2” project as part of its ongoing o
Somali pirates have seized a Taiwanese fishing vessel with 14 crewmembers onboard in the Indian Ocean, near Mauritius, an international maritime organisation said on October 8. The Kenya-based Ecoterra International said that contact was lost with the vessel ‘Feng Guo’ on October 4 and very likely i
DP World has commissioned a $500m port in the Callao district of Peru. The Muelle Sur port can handle around 850,000teu annually. The port has two berths of 350m each and can handle two post-Panamax vessels of 8,000teu at the same time.
The reconstruction of Berth 10 has won the Management of Engineering award at the 2010 WA Engineering Excellence Awards held by Engineers Australia in Perth on 18 September. The berth, previously unsuitable for container shipping, now provides an additional 180 metres of operational wharf space for
