BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state-controlled oil company CNOOC Ltd. is paying $2.3 billion for a 45 percent stakea in a Nigerian oil field in its first major investment since its failed bid last year to take over U.S. oil company Unocal Corp.
Five years and one month after her keel was laid in a New Orleans shipyard, the first Navy warship named for the city of San Antonio was commissioned Saturday in a 1-hour, 20-minute ceremony at Naval Station Ingleside that featured former President Bush.
Spain said on Friday it would go ahead with the sale of military aircraft to Venezuela in spite of a US ban on the export of US technology to the country.
Egypt said it could not allow the Clemenceau — whose final destination is an Indian scrapyard — to enter the Suez canal without the documents requested under the Basel convention banning the export of toxic waste.
At the latest position report ABN AMRO TWO leads ABN AMRO ONE by seven nautical miles. The boats behind last night
Following the loss of their huge lead and the surrender of first place to ABN AMRO TWO, Mike Sanderson
Five oil workers were injured Sunday in an attack by suspected separatist gunmen on a plant of Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
When the leak was announced at around 14.00 on Sunday, all personnel without an emergency response role mustered to the lifeboats. Just over one hour later the leak had been stopped and the crew could leave the lifeboats.
The Dubai Cruise Terminal has received German Cruise liner, MS Vistamar, recently. The cruise ship docked for three days from January 5 to 7 and carried on board 285 passengers and 110 crew members.
According to this report on volvooceanrace.org the Spanish Volvo Open 70 movistar, currently lying third in the VOR, has reported a fault with the keel hydraulics on their Farr-designed boat.
ABN AMRO ONE has only 473 nautical miles to go before reaching the second scoring gate at Eclipse Island this morning, but in the last six hours the yacht has slowed to below ten knots, with wind speeds of around five knots from the north.
Finesse and patience has replaced power, aggression and brute force as the leading pack coax their boats through the dying breeze. The sea is now flat apart from a slow rolling swell which is assisting their progress to the northeast just a little.
(AP) DUNDALK A global power supplier is planning to build a $400 million liquefied natural gas terminal on the site of the former Sparrows Point shipyard in Baltimore County.
KOLKATA: India played a “passive role” in stopping the toxic French aircraft carrier Clemenceau from going to a ship-breaking yard in Gujarat, says Greenpeace, an international environment group which halted the ship in Egypt.
