St. Johns Ship Building of Palatka, Fla. delivered two custom built twin screw push tugs, the Lady Shayne and the Lady Dashelle, for Smithbridge of Brisbane Australia. These 25-ft tugs feature twin John Deere model diesel engines with a combined rating of 600hp and conventional shaft drives with rev
Shipping line Safmarine has taken delivery of the 4500 teu Safmarine Chilka, the first of three new Safmarine-branded WAFMAX containerships to join the A.P Moller-Maersk fleet in 2012. The vessel has been purpose-built for the trade with Africa and has been deployed on the Far East – Africa trade. T
BMT Group (BMT) the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy announces the opening of its new offices in Houston, Texas. BMT Scientific Marine Services has had operations in Houston since 1996. Their expanding business has necessitated the move to larger and
A new service has been launched by four companies, Stonetrans, Rickmers-Linie, Antwerp Breakbulk Agencies and DP World Breakbulk, to ship rough blocks of granite and sandstone from India to Antwerp. The four partners, who are all highly qualified in their own fields of activity, will perform specifi
Saint Petersburg hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Christophe de Margerie, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Total. The meeting discussed the main issues of Phase 1 implementation at the Shtokman field and, inter alia, the sc
French based Technip, in partnership with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co, was awarded by DONG E&P and BAYERNGAS, a contract for the HEJRE project development, offshore Denmark, at a water depth of 70 meters. This contract covers engineering, procurement, fabrication, hook-
A proposed scheme, according to which a major power cable would be built under the Adriatic Sea, will obtain essential backing from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), reports UTILITYWEEK. The transmission line would be built between Italy and Montenegro, thus it would account
Turner Designs is excited to introduce a 6000 meter version of our very popular Cyclops-7 Submersible Fluorometer. The Cyclops-6K is presently available for Chlorophyll, Crude Oil, and CDOM detection with more optical configurations available soon. The reinforced Titanium housing and specialized opt
MEO Australia Limited advises that the S/R Veritas Viking II completed acquisition of the Floyd 3D seismic survey in WA-454-P in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf region of the Timor Sea (Petrel sub-basin) at 16:31 (WST) on 27 th February 2012. A total of 601 km 2 of full fold data was recorded. The survey
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a leading wave energy technology company, announced the appointment of Timothy Stiven as Managing Director of Ocean Power Technologies Limited, the Company’s UK-based wholly-owned subsidiary, effective March 1, 2012. He succeeds Angus Norman, who is stepping down from
Dril-Quip, Inc.announced net income of $28.1 million, or $0.70 per diluted share for the three months ended December 31, 2011, versus net income of $20.9 million, or $0.52 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2010. Total revenues were $171.6 million during the quarter ended December 31, 2011
Pelamis Wave Power has recently developed a unique system for quickly and safely installing and removing the machine from its anchoring system and electrical connection. The system allows the machine to be connected to its mooring and electrical system in around 90 minutes and disconnected in less t
Operations over the weekend saw the number of containers recovered from Rena rise to 561. 1 reefer container has been removed in two sections and as scrap onto a barge. 4 x 20 foot containers from Hold No.6 recovered on Sunday. 76 big bags of mussels removed to a barge on Saturday 50 big bags [&hell
Statoil together with operator Repsol Sinopec and partner Petrobras has confirmed a high-impact discovery (*) in the Pão de Açúcar prospect offshore Brazil. The partnership announced today that it has made a high impact discovery in the Pão de Açúcar prospect located in the BM-C-33 block in the Camp
