Three men have been rescued by lifeboat after their motor cruiser sank 11 miles east of Southend Pier in Essex. Southend RNLI lifeboat was called to a drifting boat and as it arrived the men were seen in the water clinging to the structure of their sinking craft.
Total, as operator of the Block 17, announces the award of the principal contracts for the giant Pazflor oil development, the third development centre on Block 17, deep offshore Angola, following Girassol and Dalia. Drilling operations are planned to commence in 2009 and oil production is scheduled
Pioneer Natural Resources Company (NYSE:PXD) (“Pioneer”) announced today that during December the Company closed three previously announced acquisitions, expanding its substantial position in the Spraberry and Raton fields and gaining additional acreage in the Barnett Shale, a new focus area for Pio
Brazil’s state-controlled oil multinational Petrobras announced Wednesday, December 26, in its end of the year summing up, that it has set another daily oil-production record in Brazil: 2.238,000 barrels, a mark only eight companies in the world have reached.
Light winds appear to have robbed the British maxi City Index Leopard of any chance to challenge Wild Oats XI for line honours in the 63rd Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Wild Oats XI started the day with a nine nautical mile lead over the British boat but with the wind swinging from the north [&hel
A second crewman has been injured and a third yacht has this afternoon retired from the 63rd Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. The NSW yacht Pretty Fly II, skippered by Colin Woods, is heading for Eden this afternoon after crew member Derek Brown suffered a suspected broken nose and cheek bone when he
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL, President: Akimitsu Ashida) today announced the start of new service that consolidates the Singapore-Durban shuttle service (ZAX) and the Shanghai-Singapore service (CS1), effective January 2008. With this consolidation, the new service will call at major ports in Chi
‘We’re hoping to catch skate and sole’, barked skipper Paul Klyne over the din of the catamaran’s diesel motor, ‘all cod would be an absolute disaster!’ EU quotas meant only 10,000 tonnes of cod could be taken legally from the North Sea by British boats this year.
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. (042660.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, said on Thursday it has won a combined $3 billion order to build four ships for three different companies.
The apparent wreckage of a cargo ship that disappeared along with 14 sailors has been found, but lay too deep in the water to raise immediately, South Korean officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the search continued for the missing. The ship, carrying 2,000 tons of nitric acid, was feared sunk after
Following the delivery of the ‘Transporter’ in May 2007, heavy lift vessel ‘Target’, one of the former Sealift vessels, now joins the fleet of Dockwise Transport BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dockwise Ltd. The “Target” is the second of six single-hull tankers to be converted into heavy lift vesse
Prosafe has been awarded a contract by Aker Kværner Offshore Partner AS for the provision of the MSV Regalia accommodation and construction support rig at the TOTAL E&P UK operated platform MCP-01 in the British sector of the North Sea.
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that Aker Exploration AS will acquire an interest in production licence PL 304, located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) in the North Sea. Aker Exploration will supply the Aker Barents drilling rig to drill the Aegis prospect in P
For the second consecutive year Europe’s leading cruise operator Costa Cruises has made Dubai its regional cruise hub and deployed two ships offering a total of six weekly packages to destinations in the UAE, Arabian Gulf and the Middle East regions.
