A fishing vessel called the “Ladies Straight” has gone to rescue passengers of another vessel “Joyce Lane” which is stranded in the lagoon south east of Naqaqalevu at Udu Point in Vanua Levu. Savusavu police confirm five passengers are on board Joyce Lane, however, no other details are known.
The contracts are: OMV New Zealand Limited (on behalf of the Maari Joint Venture: Todd Maari Limited, Horizon Oil International Limited, Cue Energy Resources Limited)
ExxonMobil announced today that its affiliate, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), has started up the East Area Additional Oil Recovery project located approximately 17 miles (28 kilometers) offshore Nigeria. MPN (40 percent interest) is operator of the project with co-venture partner Nigerian
Tokyo, July 27, 2006 – Through the consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. and Zachry Construction Corporation, a major construction company in the U.S., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an engineering, procurement and construction contract for two LNG storage tan
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Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won a major contract for the construction of a gas pipeline in Taiwan. The work will be done in approximately five months from April 2007 on. The contract is worth approximately
TONNES of Queensland sugar had to be pumped overboard after a bulk carrier crashed into a coral reef in Papua New Guinea, but authorities are unsure what damage it might do to marine life. Marine salvagers dumped the spoiled sugar into the ocean in order to refloat the Zhi Qiang on July 13 after it
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Cougar Ace was thrown sideways when the massive ship’s ballast tank was adjusted in the open seas of the North Pacific, a representative of the vessel’s owner said yesterday. “There clearly was imbalance in the intake of ballast water. The company investigation ultimately wil
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Total announces that its wholly-owned Nigerian operating subsidiary, Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL), has signed a farm-in agreement with Amni International Petroleum Development Company Limited, for the Oil Mining Licences (OMLs) 112 and 117 offshore southeast Nigeria. With this agreement, EPN
PORTSMOUTH — A 2007 military construction and veterans spending bill was recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee and, if passed by the full Senate, would mean good news for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Per request of Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, t
When smoke filled the pilot’s cabins of the two Seattle fireboats fighting a pier fire on Lake Union earlier this month, firefighters donned oxygen masks so they could breathe. On the deck of one fireboat, the 80-year-old Alki, crew members twisted large, bright-red wheels by hand to aim water canno
The Steamship Authority’s Island Home, the 255-foot double-ended ferry built to replace the venerable Islander, slid sideways from builder VT Halter’s dock into the Escatawpa River at Moss Point, Miss., Friday morning, as a large crowd of shipyard workers and their families as well as local and Stea
Aker Kvaerner reports record high operating results in the period. The EBITDA for the second quarter was NOK 733 million, is an increase of 66 percent compared to the second quarter of 2005. New contract awards in the Subsea, Product & Technology segment and growth in existing contracts, resulted in
