Granby Oil and Gas plc provides an operations update for the Tristan NW gas development project in the UK Southern North Sea. The 49/29b-11 well has now been drilled to a Total Depth of 11,514 feet (3,509 m) Measured Depth which includes a 778 feet (237 m) horizontal section in the reservoir.
During a planned disconnection from the well due to deteriorating weather, the drillship West Navigator suffered damages to the BOP (Blow Out Preventor) and the sub sea equipment. As a result, the drilling on West Navigator is temporarily halted. The extent of the damages and the subsequent repair t
Horizon Group is proud to announce the completion of its first Premier 130+. On the behalf of the Horizon Group, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the Premier 130+ Debut Open House which will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from February 25~29, 2008.
StatoilHydro is ranked as a Gold Class company in the oil and gas category in the Sustainability Yearbook 2008, and identified as a Sector Leader among the competitors.
Port stopovers in the 2008-09 race are far removed from the pontoon parties of the early Whitbread days. These days they are big business. It is 1977. Heath’s Condor sails into Auckland Harbour, to be greeted at the quayside by more than 10,000 spectators, who have travelled from all over New Zealan
VOSTA LMG in The Netherlands has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a complete engineering and component package for 3 hopper barges for Van Oord in The Netherlands. The complete order consists of the design and engineering of 10.000 m3 hopper barges, including the delivery of the bottom do
Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited today announced three-year time- charters for Panamax newbuildings ‘Selecao’ and ‘Socrates’ to a major South American state oil company. The charters are expected to generate gross revenues in excess of $57 million for the Company over the corresponding charter perio
The Dutch company that will dredge Port Phillip Bay’s shipping channels says it will reap half a billion dollars for its work. After repeated refusals by the Brumby Government to disclose how much it will pay to have the dredging done, the company has blown the whistle by telling a European stock ex
Shipowners will soon be paying more services they require when ships transit the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) says rates for tug services will increase 8% and those for line handling services will rise 7%. Additionally, a US$300-per-wire fee will be charged for ancillary locomotive
HAMPSHIRE hovercraft manufacturer Reaction International is set to see a four-fold increase in production after coming up with a radical new production technique. The small Baker’s Wharf, Southampton, firm is looking to ramp up production to 240 hovercraft a year and is launching a push into the luc
Bomb disposal experts have blown up a torpedo head which was trawled up in the nets of a fishing boat off the Devon coast.
Prosafe has entered into an agreement to purchase the M/T Takama. The vessel, a VLCC, has a dead weight of 266,286 DWT and was delivered in 1987 by MHI Nagasaki, Japan.
Yacht Solutions plans to upgrade its customisation service by modifying and refitting old commercial vessels into super-yachts. ‘I would like to enlarge this business in Thailand. So my company will set up a big facility in Bangkok in order to complete our objective,’ managing director Gareth Twist
The Philippines will ban single-hull oil tankers from its waters from April, two years earlier than planned, after the worst oil spill in the country’s history and a separate leak in South Korea.
