Enterprise Products Partners LP said Tuesday it is beginning the $40 million Phase 2 expansion of its natural gas liquid import/export terminal on the Houston Ship Channel. The import terminal will double, from a maximum operating rate of 240,000 barrels per day to 480,000 bpd and the export termina
The Senate yesterday narrowly defeated an effort to strike $500 million in hurricane-recovery funding for defense giant Northrop Grumman from a $106.5 billion emergency supplemental spending bill, voting 47-52 to reject an amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). The provision promises to be a point
The boom in the shipbuilding market has attracted a new player. L&T, one of India’s leading engineering and construction house, has decided to expand its business canvas by foraying into the booming shipbuilding market. L&T announced its foray into the ship building sector with the winning of a cont
The launch of the Sunreef 62, named Zappler III, took place last week, at Sunreef Yachts shipyard. This semi-owner fiberglass version of the Sunreef 62 was modified to provide two elegant, similar owner cabins, with comfortable bathrooms and separate showers, in the stern section of the hulls Two ca
The penultimate day of the Volvo Extreme 40 grand prix series saw a dramatic lead change as American Randy Smyth, sailing Tommy Hilfiger, overtook Team Holmatro, skippered by Mitch Booth, for the Baltimore series lead. Light wind challenged the five teams on the fourth day of racing as the sailors h
Port Alfred – A cargo ship was breaking up off the Eastern Cape coast on Wednesday night and the crew had abandoned ship, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said. “It has been confirmed that all 33 crew on board the Alexandros T have abandoned ship using life rafts, and the bulk carrier Fortun
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) announced on May 2 that it won US$550 million worth of order to build a drill ship from Norwegian ocean energy development firm Ferncliff Drilling AS. This will be the worlds largest drill ship ever to be built. A drill ship is an offshore drilling facility that prospe
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) and Keppel Verolme BV (Keppel Verolme) have each clinched a contract from Transocean Inc. (Transocean), worth a total of US$140 million. Each contract is for the upgrading of a Sedco 700-series semisubmersible drilling rig. The two Keppel yards reap substantial syne
APL has received a Letter of Intent from Tanker Pacific Offshore Terminals Pte Ltd for the supply of a Submerged Turret Production (STP) system for Maari. The STP system will be installed early 2008 and shall permanently moor the Andaman Sea, a tanker that Tanker Pacific shall convert to a FPSO. Maa
Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR), announced today that it has been awarded a contract from Bergesen Worldwide Offshore for supplying a safety and automation system (SAS), process instrumentation, and fiscal metering system for the FPSO BW Enterprise, one of the world’s la
One of the world’s most elegant cruise ships, the Queen Elizabeth 2, is being investigated for polluting the waters off Cape Breton. Transport Canada confirmed yesterday that the ship issued a pollution report to the Canadian Coast Guard on Sept. 9, 2005, the day after it dumped 3,000 litres of what
Activity at the Halterm container terminal was stepped up a notch Monday as Maersk Line resumed a scheduled weekly container service through the Port of Halifax. Some 80 to 90 longshoremen, checkers and gear men were busy with over 600 container lifts as the Maersk Duisburg, a vessel with a capacity
A supertanker which was held by Malaysian authorities following a flash fire that killed four people has been released on Tuesday, the ship’s Singapore-based manager BW Shipping Managers Pte. Ltd. said. The 280,000-tonne Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Suva, which was on its way to the Middle East w
Brasil 1 sailor Roberto Bermudez from Spain jumped ship for the day to make a guest appearance during the third day of the Volvo Extreme 40 grand prix series in Baltimore, aboard the form boat, Team Holmatro. Many of the sailors that are normally seen onboard the Volvo Open 70s have been attracted b
