A rescue operation has been launched after a large container ship ran aground off Haisboro sands in the early hours of this morning. The vessel, called The City of Sunderland, is believed to be carrying a cargo of cars and is currently lying on a sand bar eight miles off the north Norfolk coast.
Gas production has increased in 2007. As expected, oil production is somewhat lower than in the previous year. 32 exploration wells were spudded in 2007, up from 26 in 2006. Twelve new discoveries were made, most of which appear to be fairly small. The shelf is characterized by vigorous activity and
A 61-year-old yachtsman who had to be rescued from his boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean first raised the alarm by calling his local pub. Alan Thompson fell on the deck of the vessel and is believed to have broken his pelvis. He managed to reach a satellite phone and immediately called Roger
Twenty crew have been rescued after a cargo ship got into difficulties about 35 miles off the coast of Devon. The Greek-registered Ice Prince, which is carrying 5,260 tonnes of timber, is now drifting in the English Channel.
Total announces the commercial start-up of a large scale liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import and underground storage terminal located in Visakhapatnam, in the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. This facility is owned and operated by South Asia LPG Limited (SALPG), a company equally owned
StatoilHydro Petroleum AS, operator of production licences 090 and 090D, has concluded drilling of a development well with an exploration target, well 35/11-B-23-H in the Fram area. The well is located 10 km north of Troll.
TOTAL, SUEZ and AREVA have signed a partnership agreement to submit a nuclear power plant project to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates. Local partners will take part in the project. TOTAL, SUEZ and AREVA intend to submit a proposal for an integrated nuclear power generation solution compri
One of the men involved in an operation to save 20 crew from a cargo ship off the Devon coast says it was the most difficult rescue he has carried out. Mark Criddle, coxswain of the Torbay lifeboat, described how rough seas and gale-force winds made the operation one of their toughest missions.
A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast is at risk of sinking if weather deteriorates over the next few days. The Greek-registered Ice Prince is about 35 miles off the Start Point, and has shed most of its load of 5,260 tonnes of timber.
Greenpeace conservation activists say they have disrupted the Japanese whale hunt near Antarctica’s coast by chasing a factory ship out of the whaling zone. Crew from protest ship Esperanza said they were maintaining the chase as the whalers cannot hunt at the same time.
Remember Victor Kiam? The American entrepreneur of the 70s liked Remington shavers so much he bought the company. He then went on to make a career as a talking head in Remington TV commercials extolling the virtues of his acquisition. For Victor Kiam read Oleg Zherebtsov. The St Petersburg businessm
The consortium formed by Petrobras (35.15%), Repsol (41% – Operator) and Burlington Resources (23.85%) has discovered gas in Peru, in exploratory well Kinteroni X1, in Block 57, in the Cuzco province. The first production tests, which are still in progress, registered a flow of 1,000,000 cubic meter
This is the brand new J Class yacht Lionheart after successfully being turned over at Freddie Bloemsma’s yard in Holland. The aluminium hulled J has been developed by designer Andre Hoek who has undertaken extensive research into the performance of 20 J Class designs some of which have been built an
Construction of two new vessels created by CRN was begun in recent days. The first blocks of the two new steel hulls have been assembled in the shipyard, which handles all the various phases of the construction process. The first block of the 58-metre mega-yacht, project number 125 of the shipbuildi
