Seychelles (SEYPEC), Fugro and Geomahakarsa have this morning signed a Cooperation Agreement for the acquisition, processing, interpretation and license of geoscientific data within the Seychelles EEZ on a multi client basis. Under this Agreement, Fugro Data Services AG, a company incorporated under
No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy. Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which killed 11 people and caused widespread pollution in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. A report released by BP today concludes that decision
NSK Shipping AS, a coastal vessel operator based in northern Norway, has recently placed an order for a state-of-the-art LNG-fuelled multi purpose vessel at the Turkish shipyard, Tersan. The vessel, designed by Nordnorsk Skipskonsult AS, will be classed to DNV. Scheduled for delivery in 2012, the ge
Aker Solutions’ new deepwater intervention vessel, Skandi Aker, has today been announced winner of the coveted international “Ship of the Year 2010” award. The award was today presented to Stig Antonsen, VP Marine in Aker Solutions, by Rikke Lind, state secretary of the Norwegian Ministry for Trade
The Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference, the largest petroleum and gas event in the Southern Hemisphere, will have its largest edition to date on September 13th-16th at the Riocentro, in Rio Janeiro. It is expected that 40 thousand visitors will pass through the event during the four days it will be t
Hyperdynamics Corporation announced the results of a resource evaluation conducted by Netherland Sewell and Associates Inc. (NSAI) of the Company’s oil and gas concession offshore Republic of Guinea. NSAI, a leading provider of reserve audits and exploration resource assessments, conducted a three-m
The National Development and Reform Commission said on Wednesday it had approved the first phase of Sinopec Corp’s liquefied natural gas pro… (yahoo news) [mappress] Source: yahoo news, September 8, 2010;
At SMM 2010, Tognum company MTU Friedrichshafen launched a new, standardised genset for diesel-electric propulsion and onboard power… (motorship) [mappress] Source: motorship, September 08, 2010;
At SMM 2010, Tognum company MTU Friedrichshafen launched a new, standardised genset for diesel-electric propulsion and onboard power… (motorship) [mappress] Source: motorship, September 08, 2010;
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposes to grant conditional authorisation to the joint venture partners in the North West Shelf Gas Project to jointly market and sell their individual domestic gas entitlements for supply in Western Australia. Since 1984, when the North West Shel
The inordinate delay in completing the capital dredging work for the Vallarpadam ICTT project may lead to the postponement of the soft … (steelguru) [mappress] Source: steelguru, September 8, 2010;
Thirty four workers have been saved and two are still missing after strong wind brougt by typhoon Malou tilted an oil drilling platform … by Chinadaily [mappress] Source: Chinadaily,September 8, 2010,
The St. Martin Parish Council voted Tuesday to hire Sellers and Associates, of Abbeville, as the engineers on the Bayou Du Portage, locally… By Robert R. Jones III (2theadvocate) [mappress] Source: 2theadvocate, September 8, 2010;
Together with DNV and other partners, DNV customer Reederei Stefan Patjens is ready to retrofit LNG on board a 5,000 TEU container vessel. When completed, this would be the very first use of LNG as fuel on board a container ship and of LNG as fuel in worldwide trading. The vessel in mind is a [&hell
