Nigerian militants holding four foreign hostages disassociated themselves on Monday from “bounty hunters” talking with the government on their behalf, and said the captive oil workers would not be released.
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. (NYSE: HOS) announced today that the gasoline discharge from one of its barges reported over the weekend has been addressed and the barge is now en route from New Haven, CT to a repair facility in New York harbor.
CNOOC Limited’s total budgeted net production volume in 2006 is approximately 168-170 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), approximately a 9% year-on-year (YOY) increase over the estimated 153-157 million BOE in 2005.
Pirates of the Caribbean is now at Mornington Buoy and has 24 miles to go to the finish. She is doing 12 knots and the breeze is 19-20 kts from the southwest, tending southerly.
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered ENSCO 107, a KFELS B Class design jackup drilling rig to ENSCO International Inc (ENSCO) one month ahead of contractual schedule and within budget.
France is reportedly on a collision course with the UK over a
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, which typically handles just one aircraft carrier at a time, will be home to three carriers at once this fall, said Navy Capt. Joseph Campbell, the yard’s commanding officer.
The Forrest Sherman will be ready to operate and deploy with a battle group in 2008, he said. There is more training to do and shipyard work to complete.
AHMEDABAD, India — Foreign shipping and offshore logistics companies are sailing to Indian shipyards which are fast emerging as the preferred destinations for building smaller and medium sized vessels (up to 30,000 DWT).
Pirates of the Caribbean skipper Paul Cayard has managed to get his Volvo Open 70,The Black Pearl , across the Melbourne finishing line, after struggling with winds that varied from almost nothing to 30 knots, over the last few hours.
The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the Netherlands national Institute for oceanographic research and KONGSBERG have signed a contract for the delivery and installation of a KONGSBERG EM 302 1×2 degree multibeam echo sounder
First Admiral Abdul Malik Yusuf, the chief spokesman for the Indonesian Navy was quoted by RIA-Novosti news agency as saying combat submarines were strategic armaments allowing the country to maintain security in its territorial waters.
The mts. Mistral was delivered to owners on 17 December 2005 after a building period of approx 20 months. The newly designed vessel is a respond of the demand for modern bunker vessels in seaports in Europe.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced Sunday that a smugglers’ boat carrying some 120 Ethiopians and Somalis capsized off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 22 people dead and 28 others missing, according to survivors
