Talisman Energy (UK) Limited has chosen The Craig Group’s latest newbuild vessels to support operations in its Northern Business Area in the North Sea. The two IMT 948 designed vessels, currently under construction at the Balenciaga shipyard, will go on long-term charter next year to provide emergen
Aberdeen Harbour continues to cement its position as the centre of activity for the energy industry’s marine operations in North-west Europe, and remains one the UK’s busiest ports. Figures show more than 50 per cent of the port’s major activity is connected to the oil and gas industry.
Concordia Maritime has taken delivery of the product tanker Stena Progress from Brodosplit Shipyard, Croatia. The vessel is the seventh in the P-MAX series of ten units ordered and has been signed to a 5-year time charter with the French oil and energy company Total to transport refined petroleum pr
Mediterranean nations surprised industry commentators this week when they did not back a proposal to ban on bluefin tuna fishing. The European Commission (EC) has called on the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) to support a temporary ban on the bluefin tuna to let stocks replenish themselv
The Ministry of Agriculture noted in a report from 2007 that there had been a 20 percent demise in the fishing industry. Fishermen in Jaffa said that the depletion of fish stocks had made it difficult for them to make a living out of their chosen livelihoods. The report confirmed that some fishermen
The US Navy has released an urgent tender to build two OSVs for the Government of Iraq. The contracts call for the building of two vessel under Iraq’s future procurement programme, which the US Navy intends to expedite. Indeed, the US Navy is calling for an accelerated delivery schedule for the newb
Milestone in the development of the company’s own gas production The first gas production platform operated by E.ON left the shipyard a few days ago and is currently being installed on the Babbage gas field. The field is located some 80 km off the coast of the UK, in the Southern North Sea. Producti
– Contract signed with Songa Offshore Drilling Limited to secure a drilling rig for two wells in contract area JPDA 06-103 in the Timor Sea. – Drilling to commence following release of the rig from Woodside’s imminent 1 to 3 well program on North West Shelf, WA. – Oilex has funding for these wells u
A EUROPEAN Union representative here revealed that the Philippine government has not submitted its request for the extension of a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) scheme for canned tuna products being exported to Europe. “There’s no formal request from the Philippine government to extend the quota system,” s
A boat that fishes for tuna out of Gloucester was hit by a wave and capsized about three miles east of the Isles of Shoals off Portsmouth, N.H., yesterday. Two men, believed to be from Middleton, were rescued from the water early yesterday morning after the Coast Guard issued an emergency broadcast
Out of thirty submitted projects the international jury has selected seven nominees for the first ESPO Award on Societal Integration of Ports. The port of Rotterdam is one of the nominees. “The quality of the applications received was outstanding,” said John Richardson, chairman of the jury and form
The world’s leading maritime service network Wilhelmsen Ships Service has been awarded a contract to handle all the ships agency calls for the main contractor to the Belwind Project, one of the largest new green energy projects in the world. Wilhelmsen Ships Service Belgium has signed an agency agre
Aker Solutions has signed a contract with BP America Inc. to perform subsea construction activities at the operator’s Atlantis and Thunder Horse fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The Scope of work comprises planning and executing the installation of subsea hardware including manifolds, PLEMs (pipeline-e
General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, today began construction of the future USNS William McLean, the twelfth ship of the U.S. Navy’s T-AKE program. The William McLean is named in honor of the Navy physicist who conceived and developed the heat-seeking Sidewinder mi
