RIO Tinto will spend $US230 million ($A242 million) to expand its iron ore capacity at Dampier Port by 5 million tonnes a year. The investment takes total Pilbara annual capacity to 230 million tonnes a year in the first quarter of 2012 and is in addition to the $US91 million allocated earlier this
A Kenyan judge sentenced seven Somalis to five years in jail yesterday for attempting to hijack a cargo vessel last year, the European Union’s anti-piracy mission known as EU Navfor said. The group was detained on May 7, 2009, by the Spanish navy after officers fired warning shots from a helicopter
American Cruise Lines will offer eight riverboat cruises between New Orleans and Memphis beginning in 2012 with stops in Vicksburg and Natchez. Officials said American Cruises new sternwheeler will follow much of the routes run by the old Delta Queen and Mississippi Queen steamers.
THE Scottish Government has reopened talks with Iceland in an effort to resolve a bitter fishing row being dubbed the “mackerel wars”, it was confirmed today.
A new platform is trying to find solutions: TGAV. Research suggests that some 10 to 15 percent of all import containers may have too high a concentration of hazardous gases or vapours. This could for example be due to pest control-related fumigation, but increasingly it turns out that the gases and
Work has finally begun on a $5.4 million project to dredge Mission Bay Channel. The channel has not been dredged since 1984 and so much sand shoaled up between the jetties that breaking waves posed a hazard to recreational boaters.
Hamworthy in the UK has secured a £20m contract from Nantong Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering in China to supply equipment for liquid ethylene gas carriers. Under the contract, Hamworthy will supply cargo-handling systems for six ethylene vessels, a reliquefaction plant and cargo pumps.
The Mekaines LNG carrier, with a capacity of 266,000 cubic metres, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal September 26, according to the Milford Haven Port Authority website. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and is capable of delivering 21 billion cubic
The new lock, with dimensions of 225 m x 25 m, will make the Meuse between Namur and Liège more accessible for vessels up to 4,500 ton. The construction of the lock is challenging because it is located in the middle of the river Meuse. The first, existing lock in Ivoz-Ramet has to stay into [&hellip
Countries bordering the north-east Atlantic rejected a ban proposal on deep-sea offshore drilling destined to avoid an environmental disaster comparable to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Norway said Friday. The ban was proposed by Germany at a meeting in the western Norwegian city of Bergen of the OS
Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, reports the following update from the recent flow test on well 14/10-2: “Sea Lion 1”. The test was carried out over four perforated intervals totalling 77m between 2,403m and 2,566m (below drill-floor). Upon retri
Lundin Petroleum AB (“Lundin Petroleum”) announces that drilling of exploration well 16/1-14 in PL338, has commenced. The well will target the Apollo structure, which is situated immediately to the south of the Draupne field in PL001B, and some 5 kms northwest of and down-dip from the Luno field loc
Queensland based oil and gas company, Icon Energy Limited (Icon Energy), today announced that it had been successful in bidding for key onshore acreage in the Gippsland Basin. Gazettal Block VIC/G-10(5), to be known on award as Petroleum Exploration Permit 170, includes the township of Darriman, in
Professor Curtis Hays Whitson has been awarded Statoil’s research prize 2010 for his major input to boosting knowledge about recovery of gas and gas condensate fields and improved recovery of oil fields by the use of gas injection. Consisting of NOK 200,000 and a work of art by Håkon Gullvåg the pri
