Lebanese parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday urged his government to begin exploring offshore natural gas reserves, warning… [mappress] Source:France24, June 10, 2010:
The Department of the Interior issued a directive to oil and gas lessees and operators on the Outer Continental Shelf implementing stronger safety requirements that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recommended in his 30-day safety report to the President. The Notice to Lessees focusing on safet
ECT, EMO and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have made agreements for the further development of their commercial activities on the existing Maasvlakte. At the beginning of 2011, a start will be made on widening the Amazonehaven. At the same time, EMO will relocate some of its operations to the Hart
BP announced that it will donate the net revenue from oil recovered from the MC252 spill to create a new wildlife fund to create, restore, improve and protect wildlife habitat along the coastline of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala., and Fla. The creation of this fund is over and above BP’s obligations u
Bengal moved aggressively in fiscal 2010 to establish a platform for significant international growth. Within the past two years, the Company has now increased its undeveloped land position by 250% to 2.3 million net acres, 87% of which is operated by Bengal. Recent highlights: – Through rigorous ge
With construction on hard-fought tunnels to the Port of Miami under way, local leaders have turned their attention to dredging, another… [mappress] Source: miamitodaynews, June 10, 2010;
A bill that would set the Deepwater Wind offshore-turbine project back on course was expected to run into some strong opposition in the… [mappress] Source: projo, June 10, 2010;
Sand dredgers have resumed large-scale operations in Koh Kong province’s salt-water estuaries since June 2 after a drop-off in dredging activities as a result of a sand-export ban last year, local fishermen said Tuesday.
Knight & Carver YachtCenter in the US has acquired a 4,000-tonne dry dock for its refit and repair operations in San Diego, California. The company now claims to have the largest lifting capacity for superyachts and commercial vessels on the US west coast — and one of the largest in the country. Nam
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE:ANW) today announced that it has taken delivery of the Nisyros, a 6,270 dwt double-hull bunkering tanker newbuild from Qingdao Hyundai Shipyard in China. The vessel is expected to be deployed to the Company’s market in Greece.
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announces that 62.4 percent of the shareholders have elected a stock dividend distributed in the form of ordinary shares. As a result, 2,322,974 new ordinary shares will be issued today. The admission of these shares to trading on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam is
North Sea drilling rigs anchoring up in Scotland helped Cromarty Firth Port Authority to post a 40% rise in turnover to £4.5 million for 2009 up from £3.2 m the previous year. The Scottish port authority also posted a record £0.96 m pre-tax profit for the year, compared with £367,000 in 2008.
Israel-based shipping company, Zim, is going to sell its overseas marine services business for between US$130 million to US$170 million following two years during which the company struggled to overcome the container shipping downturn. According to a report in American Shipper, Zim’s parent company,
The lower marine riser package (LMRP) containment cap, installed on June 3, continues to collect oil and gas flowing from the MC252 well and transport them to the Discoverer Enterprise drillship on the surface. In the first 12 hours of June 9 (midnight to noon), approximately 7,920 barrels of oil we
