The giant support structure of an offshore drilling platform, the largest ever launched in Asia, has commenced its voyage from Shenzhen city in South China’s Guangdong Province, the state media reported Sunday.
With launch site operations now underway at 154 degrees West Longitude on the Equator, the Odyssey Launch Platform is ballasted to its launch depth and stationed alongside the Sea Launch Commander (Assembly and Command Ship).
The floating port is a 250-metres long ship with 123,705 metric tonne of cargo capacity. This ship would help in loading and unloading of cargo from big ships which are unable to drop anchor close to ports owing to draught constraints.
Five tall ships and a government research vessel are slated to dock in at the Inner Harbor during visits late this month and in early May as part of the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Baltimore, according to Sail Baltimore, a local nonprofit group that welcomes visiting ships.
A Singapore-flagged container ship is being towed to Salalah after it was severely damaged in a blaze during a voyage through the Indian Ocean, the Oman Daily Observer reported yesterday. The huge vessel, ‘MV Hyundai Fortune’, carrying some 4,000 containers
Savings of NOK 400 million have been made by Statoil over three years through more efficient working in the Tampen area together with contractor Aker Offshore Partner (AOP).
On April 10th, H.N 5259, a 105,000 DWT Product Oil Carrier for Chandris was named
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, said today it has won contracts worth $110 million in total to supply propulsion and power systems for 12 vessels and five offshore drilling rigs.
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Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) won a US$170 million-worth contract to build a gas turbine power generation plant for Saudi ARAMCO, the state-run oil company.
Evergreen Marine Corp, Hapag-Lloyd Container Line and Wan Hai Lines are to launch a weekly service linking India with Hong Kong, Shekou and Kaohsiung at the end of April. This will be known as the CIX (China – India Express) service.
Aker Floating Production ASA today announces that it has successfully priced a USD 15O million private placement at NOK 81.0 per share. The placement was well oversubscribed, with strong demand from investors, internationally and in Norway.
Production has been restored from all five wells on Dragon Oil
Speeds eased slightly overnight as the winds went five degrees or so astern. From a few hours of 20 knots plus, the fleet is now down to 19.9 for ABN AMRO ONE at the front and 17.8 for ABN AMRO TWO at the back.
