A harbour in the Highlands could be upgraded at a cost of £15m to help it meet demands from the oil, gas and renewable energy sectors. Scrabster Harbour Trust said it would allow it to offer services found at ports in the north east.
A fisherman has died after falling overboard in the North Sea. The accident happened at about 1700 BST on Monday, when the 26-year-old fell from a fishing vessel about 100 miles north-east of Aberdeen.
A chance accident in bad weather has been blamed for the loss of a fishing boat and its four-man crew in the North Sea, BBC Scotland has learned. The Aberdeen-based Meridian, registered in Fife, had been doing observation work for an oil firm when it sank 160 miles off the coast last October.
Technip has been awarded by Petrobras three major contracts, totalizing approximately USD 270 million, for pipelines intended to deepwater development projects in Brazil.
Total announces a significant new gas condensate discovery in block 205/5a in approximately 610 metres of water, some 100 kilometres North West of the Sullom Voe Terminal on the Shetland Islands. Total, with a 47.5% interest, is the operator of this block awarded end 2004, alongside partners Eni UK
A total of 2,850 Cargotec class B shares were subscribed for with 2005B option rights in August 2007. The corresponding increase in Cargotec Corporation’s share capital will be, in accordance with the time schedule published earlier, entered into the Finnish Trade Register by October 31, 2007. Tradi
A Derbyshire man who was seriously injured when a glacier fell onto a sightseeing ship in the Arctic has spoken of his ordeal. David Bishop from Ambergate was left with a punctured lung and 10 broken bones as a wall of water, caused by ice falling from a glacier, hit the boat.
A fish that normally lives in the Caribbean has been caught by a fisherman in Cornish waters. The Almaco Jack was caught just off Crantock in north Cornwall by Newquay fisherman Phil Trebilcock.
Subsea 7’s new state-of-the-art deepwater rigid pipelay vessel ‘Seven Oceans’ has arrived in the Port of Leith, Edinburgh to commence operations for its first major installation project, for the Chevron Blind Faith development, in the Gulf of Mexico. Two (2) x 7km 7in pipelines have been fabricated
It is efficient, elegant, refined and easy to surf, just like a NAHEMA mega-catamaran. Because sometimes a picture means more than words, a large format view of the NAHEMAs appears on each new page. Exterior, interior 3Ds and layout renderings of the NAHEMA 120 are already available. The exterior vi
The first hull of the new CRN 43 displacement line, ‘Emerald Star’, launched last May, is the largest vessel ever produced by the CRN shipyard in composite materials. The mega-yacht presents a one-of-its-kind external layout, together with a masterful arrangement of the internal spaces. A joint effo
Malaysian shipping company Global Carriers Bhd said Monday it has awarded two shipbuilding contracts worth a combined 21.76 million US dollars to Ningbo Shipyard Co Ltd.
Total has sanctioned construction of a 1-million-ton-per-year desulfurization unit at its Leuna refinery in Germany. Scheduled for commissioning in fall 2009, the new unit will supply the domestic market with ultra-low sulfur home heating oil.
Environmental authorities in Wuhan, who have been closely monitoring water quality in the main drinking water source for the city of 8.31 million people, announced the water is safe to drink after one ship carrying 49 tons of methanol sank in the Hanjiang River, local media reported today.
