BP and ConocoPhillips today announced they have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets, and will be the largest private sector construction project ever built in North America. The p
Italian film star Sophia Loren has named a giant luxury cruise liner at a launch party at the Port of Dover. The Oscar-winning actress joined Prince and Princess Michael of Kent on board MSC Poesia for the event before it sailed from the Kent port for Venice.
Airport taxes and delays have led motoring tourists to return to ferries ‘in their thousands’, according to Dover Harbour Board. The board said tourist car journeys reached nearly 2.84m last year – the highest annual total since 1999.
The world’s fourth-largest container port operator, Dubai Ports World, has seen its profits rise by 52% in 2007. It earnt $419.7m (£210m) from ongoing operations and was also upbeat on its performance so far in 2008.
A new 115,000-tonne cruise ship has arrived in its home port of Southampton ahead of its official entry into passenger service. The £300m Ventura, which can carry up to 3,600 passengers, will be named by actress Dame Helen Mirren at the Hampshire port on Wednesday 16 April.
Lundin Petroleum AB is pleased to announce that it has started mobilisation and installation of the marine drilling complex that will drill the Morskaya-1 exploration well in the Lagansky block, situated in the northern Caspian Sea. Lundin Petroleum has currently a 70 percent net interest in the Lag
Lundin Petroleum AB is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lundin Malaysia BV, has signed three new PSCs with PETRONAS in Kuala Lumpur on April 7, 2008. The PSCs cover Blocks PM308A and PM308B in the Penyu Basin offshore Peninsular Malaysia and Block SB303, offshore Sabah.
The French Government says it has made contact with Somali pirates who seized a luxury French megayacht Le Ponant and its 32 crew on Friday. The 88 metre 850-tonne three-masted megayacht was sailing to Malta in the Mediterranean from the Seychelles when it was seized with its crew of 22 French natio
Transocean Inc. today announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 (formerly Deepwater Pacific 2), which is owned by a joint venture in which the company has 50 percent interest, has been awarded a five-year drilling contract from Reliance Industries. The contract is expected
A giant crane which will be used to help build a wind farm off the north Wales coast is expected to anchor after high winds forced a delay. The 80m (262ft) crane – known as the Svanen – has been brought in to lay foundations off Rhyl, Denbighshire.
The latest episode in Campbell Field’s long association with the Whitbread/Volvo could feature in one of those daytime television shows where a family uproots, pets included, and relocates to a foreign land. In this scenario Field takes up the job of shore manager to the Spanish team.
Cruise liner passengers who had been stranded in Madeira for two days at the end of a three-month cruise are back in British waters – a day late. Nearly 500 holidaymakers on the MV Van Gogh were in the Portuguese island port of Funchal from Tuesday as a result of a legal dispute.
Cargotec’s MacGREGOR business area providing marine cargo handling and offshore load handling solutions has received significant bulk handling crane orders. Altogether 276 cranes will be delivered during 2009-2011 and the value of the orders is more than EUR 90 million. The orders have been booked i
The three process modules for the FPSO Sevan Voyageur have left the GKSI shipyard at Karmøy, Norway onboard a barge, heading for the Keppel Verolme shipyard in Rotterdam. Estimated time of arrival is Saturday April 5, 2008. The delivery was according to schedule.
