PG Marine Group announced that it has secured a contract to equip Solstad’s new STX 06L-design OSCV. STX OSV H/N 811 a novel vessel, of type OSCV 06L, has been designed by STX OSV and Solstad, in close cooperation with Ocean Installer. This combination has resulted in a high-capacity CSV with a tota
BP has completed its sale of a number of oil and gas fields in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico to Plains Exploration & Production Company (‘PXP’). BP on September 10, 2012 agreed to sell the fields to PXP for $5.55 billion in cash subject to customary post-closing adjustments, with an effective date
Damen Shiprepair Den Helder (The Netherlands) was rewarded a contract for modification activities on the ‘Polarcus Adira’ operated by Dubai-based Polarcus, a company owning one of the biggest fleets of Seismic Vessels. Polarcus is operating an ultra-modern seismic fleet incorporating advanced mariti
Damen Shiprepair Den Helder (The Netherlands) was rewarded a contract for modification activities on the ‘Polarcus Adira’ operated by Dubai-based Polarcus, a company owning one of the biggest fleets of Seismic Vessels. Polarcus is operating an ultra-modern seismic fleet incorporating advanced mariti
The Port of Barcelona will host the next Sino European Freight Forwarders Conference, from 18 to 21 June 2013, which will bring together executives and senior managers of logistics and transport companies, mainly from China and Europe, but also from the rest of the world. Barcelona, which will be ho
Attendees from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand successfully completed an International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) capacity building workshop on Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI), hosted by the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration (KH
At the IMO Maritime Safety Committee meeting just held, it was decided to introduce mandatory regulations on the protection of seafarers against noise. One of the goals of the Danish Maritime Authority is to turn all important Danish regulations within marine engineering into international regulatio
On Monday 3rd December 2012 Regs4ships Limited is set to launch the sixteenth flag based product for their Digital Maritime Regulations service. Thousands of users worldwide currently subscribe to Digital Maritime Regulations, with numbers growing monthly. The new Denmark flag product contains flag
Directorate of the State Customer for Marine Transport Development Programmes and Nevsky Shipyard, LLC signed, on November 29th 2012, the State Contract for the construction of multipurpose salvage vessel, capacity 4 MW. Nevsky Shipyard, LLC got the right to conclude the given State Contract having
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) summoned shipowners, drilling contractors and drilling service contractors to a joint meeting on Wednesday last week. The topic was the responsibilities and roles of the contractors in connection with risk of well control incidents on the Norwegian shelf.
Marine Scotland Science invites tenders for the supply of a sonar altimeter range, depth and distance run system. The system will be used for measuring the height a towed camera platform is above the seabed, the depth of the towed camera platform is below the surface and the distance the towed camer
KONGSBERG will debut its latest integrated naval training solution at I/ITSEC 2012, Dec 3 – Dec 6 in Orlando, Florida. PROTEUS INTERACT (Integrated Naval Training Environment for Resource management And Crew Teamwork) is a joint development between the simulation and training departments of KONGSBER
Leading classification society ClassNK announced that it has certified the type specific ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) training course provided by Philippine Standard Shipmanagement Inc. (PSSI), an affiliate of Japanese ship management company NS United Marine Corp., a part
MEO Australia Limited advises that Pearl Oil Offshore Limited (an affiliate of Mubadala Petroleum) commenced drilling Sainampueng-1 in the Gulf of Thailand G2/48 Concession at 8:30am (local time) on 23rd November. At 13:00hrs local time on 29th November, the well had reached 2,237mMDRT and was drill
