The deployment of booms to help collect the oil spill in the North Sea has been called off because the slick is too thin for recovery to the collection vessels. During the afternoon of 14 December, ships carrying two oil collection systems were active in the sea areas where the slick was thought to
Two Somali pirates accused of hijacking a Japanese tanker have been arrested in northeastern Somalia, but up to a dozen more were still on the run, police said Thursday. The chemical tanker Golden Nori, seized off the Somali coast six weeks ago, was released Wednesday along with its 22 crew, who app
About 1700 passengers, including Australians, from the cruise ship Norwegian Dream are stranded in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, days after the accident-prone boat collided with a barge.
Shetland Islands Council (SIC) is being asked to pay more than £5 million towards the biggest harbour dredging contract in the islands’ history after losing a legal battle against the work going ahead. Yesterday (Wednesday) Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) announced they had awarded a contract to Hampsh
Technip has been awarded by Grupa Lotos a project management services contract for the Gdansk refinery in Poland. In this framework, Technip will manage several projects aimed at upgrading the Gdansk refinery and increasing its capacity, ensuring their proper, safe and internally coordinated executi
Lerwick Port Authority has awarded a contract for the largest dredging project in the harbour’s history, which will open the port up to the decommissioning of offshore platforms. The work will be carried out by Hampshire-based Westminster Dredging Company, part of Royal Boskalis Westminster of the N
NOIL Energy ASA, operator of production licence 341, has concluded drilling of appraisal well 24/12-5 S. The well was drilled on the 24/12-3 S discovery in the central part of the North Sea.
Green Team has been confirmed as the seventh entry in the 2008-09 race. The boat, designed by Reichel Pugh and in build at McConaghy Boats in China, will be skippered by British Olympian Ian Walker. The team’s participation is twinned with a race stopover in the west Irish port of Galway. Green Team
Motor and sailing superyachts are invited to compete in the inaugural Hamilton Island Superyacht Series which will be staged between November 9 and 14, 2008 on courses around some of the most beautiful Great Barrier Reef islands Australia has to offer.
City Index Leopard will be looking to take line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, making her the first boat ever to take line honours in both the Rolex Fastnet Race and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in the same year.
Wild salmon on Canada’s west coast are being driven to extinction by parasites from nearby fish farms, a study claims. Wild pink salmon around the Broughton Archipelago are declining rapidly and will die out within 10 years if no action is taken, say researchers.
An inspection of the ship which delivers up to half of Guernsey’s food and other goods has revealed its hull is damaged after it almost ran aground. Strong winds forced caused the Commodore Goodwill to hit La Collette yacht basin in St Helier harbour.
The 25-foot yacht Ouzo disappeared in August 2006 with the loss of three lives. A ferry officer was charged over the incident, accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ and failing to raise the alarm after the Pride of Bilbao was involved in a near-miss with what was alleged to have been Ouzo. He was subsequ
‘We are treating the Statfjord spill with the greatest concern. I have today informed the board about the spill and the emergency actions implemented,’ says Helge Lund, chief executive officer of StatoilHydro.
