BHP Billiton today announced that its operated Stybarrow project offshore northwest has achieved sustained production levels at planned capacity. It was brought on stream in November approximately two months ahead of schedule. Stybarrow has been producing consistently at design capacity of 80,000 ba
In December 2007 Radio Holland installed and commissioned the first Fleet Broadband terminal on MOV Van Kinsbergen. Radio Holland Netherlands was contacted by Stratos to arrange the installation of a Thrane & Thrane SAILOR-500 Fleet Broadband terminal on board this vessel of the Royal Netherlands Na
Maersk Detroit vessel has berthed at Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), the Kingdom’s sole container terminal, registering the highest record for container handling with a total amount of 3360 TEU in discharged and loaded cargo during 30 working hours.
Mr Torbjørn Andersen has been employed as head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations in Aker Yards. Andersen comes from a position as head of Corporate Communications in Aker Kværner.
Production was suspended following a fire in one of the Thistle Alpha installation’s three power generation turbine enclosures on the 25th November 2007. Lundin Britain Limited (Lundin), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum, holds a 99 percent interest in the Thistle field. Petrofac Facilit
A stricken cargo ship has sunk in rough weather off Devon, a day after its crew were rescued during an earlier storm. The Greek-registered Ice Prince went down about 26 miles (42km) off Portland Bill after shedding much of its load of nearly 5,260 tonnes of sawn timber.
An Australian court has ruled that the activities of the Japanese whaling fleet are illegal and ordered it to halt its operations. The Federal Court said Japan had broken domestic law by killing whales in Australian waters off Antarctica.
A cargo vessel carrying 643 cars has been refloated after running aground eight miles off the Norfolk coast, the Coastguard has said. The City of Sunderland was pulled free of the sandbank at Haisborough Sands, near Cromer, at about 2040 GMT.
The f.Diamond, the global TV station’s 140-meter mega-yacht, will pass through 10 major cities in China, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sanya. The yacht will stop for one week in each host city, invite local talented young designers, models and photographers on board and select a winner af
At the end of December 2007, No Limit Ships shipyard delivered a No Limit 1640 survey vessel to Belgian dredging contrator Jan De Nul.
Sea Shepherd environmentalists say they have caught up with the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and will do everything possible to stop the hunt. The discovery came as the Federal Court outlawed whaling in Australian Antarctic waters in a ruling the government said it would not try to e
Aminex PLC, the oil and gas company listed in London and Dublin provides the following progress report on the GU#38 well at South Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas. GU#38 was spudded on 23 December 2007 and achieved planned total depth of 11,000 feet (3,352 metres) on 9 January in deep Frio sands which
The Schooner Western Union, built in Key West in 1939, is the oldest working wooden schooner in the United States. She is currently at Merrill-Stevens Shipyard receiving some restoration work.
A cargo vessel carrying 643 cars has run aground off the Norfolk coast at Happisburgh Sands. The City of Sunderland is not leaking fuel but she is listing in the high winds, a spokesman for the Yarmouth Coastguard said.
