The arrival of the Queen Victoria cruise ship in New Zealand marks massive increases in cruise ship volume, and potentially big problems for under-equipped ports. The 294-metre ship is on its inaugural global tour as the Cunard cruise line’s latest liner and will replace the Queen Elizabeth 2, which
If you’re hoping to sail around the Hawaiian islands this summer on Norwegian Cruise Lines, be prepared for fewer ships and fewer bargains. The Miami-based line is dropping another ship from its Hawaii fleet, leaving only the 2,138-passenger Pride of America to ply the island waters starting in May.
Aker Kvaerner ASA, the Norwegian engineering powerhouse has announced its commitment to further invest in its Process & Construction business by relocating and expanding the company’s technology fabricationarm; Aker Kvaerner Chemetics in Toronto, Canada.
Twenty-eight Chinese sailors are missing after their ship sank off the northern Philippines, the coastguard here said on Monday. The China-flagged Jinshan went down about 68 nautical miles northwest of Cape Bojeador on the northern tip of the main Philippine island of Luzon, coastguard spokesman Lie
Saturday’s strong winds helped disperse diesel fuel that spilled in the Gulf of Mexico when an offshore supply ship collided with a drilling rig early Saturday morning. The spill occurred before dawn about 140 miles southeast of Galveston and about 30 miles south of the Flower Garden Banks National
Experience from the Kristin field is essential to develop the Morvin field in the Norwegian Sea. The Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) was today submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.
Sibir today announces that it has spudded the first development well at the Orekhovskoye oil field in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District of western Siberia. The field is operated by Sibir subsidiary OAO Magma (‘Magma’) and holds 49 million barrels of C1 and 5.3 million barrels C2 under the Russ
Transocean Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Hercules Offshore, Inc. to sell three of its U.S. Gulf of Mexico jackup drilling rigs and related equipment for $320 million. The sales of the GSF Adriatic III, GSF High Island I and GSF High Island VIII will mark T
Transocean Inc. today announced the award of a 689-day contract by a consortium headed by Marathon International Petroleum Indonesia Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marathon Oil Corporation, for the ultra-deepwater drillship GSF Explorer to drill a series of exploration wells in a deepwater provin
Stena Bulk and Sonangol have expanded their shipping collaboration and are now also operating a pool with Panamax tankers. These vessels transport crude oil and petroleum products in Atlantic trade as well as sailing in a round-the-world service. Initially, the pool consists of five Panamax tankers
Further to a previous announcement dated 8th of January 2008, SBM Offshore now advises that the formal contract has been signed with Petrobras for the turnkey supply of the P-57 FPSO to be installed on Jubarte field offshore Brazil.
With the release of the 4th generation of the computerized control system APC, for the core drill rig Diamec, Atlas Copco takes another step to increase productivity for core drillers around the world.
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, the Damen ASD Tug 2411 ‘Tiaki’ arrived in Wellington after a long journey from Haiphong (Vietnam) at the pilot station in Wellington (New Zealand). As shown below, the vessel looked excellent upon arrival! The clients of CentrePort Wellington were most impressed afte
Search and rescue operations continued Friday for five crewmembers of a cargo ship which sank in the San Bernardino Strait off the coasts of Bulusan and Matnog, Sorsogon late Thursday afternoon. The missing persons were part of the 19-man crew of the LCT Don Wilfredo which capsized and then sank aft
