THE CRUISE shipping industry will get a major boost this year, with a massive expansion of the island’s two main ports.
Southern Ocean icebergs will have to be negotiated by the Volvo Ocean Race yachting fleet after it leaves Cape Town at midnight tonight (NZT) and heads to Melbourne.
Suriname’s state oil company Staatsolie has launched its 2006 international bid round for three exploration blocks in the southeast of the country’s offshore territory in the Suriname-Guyana Basin, the company said in a statement.
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) today announced the first crude oil shipment from the Bonga deepwater oil and gas field offshore Nigeria.
AN asbestos-insulated French aircraft carrier at the centre of court battles with environmental groups has been stalled by heavy seas at the start of its final voyage to an Indian breaker’s yard, an executive said overnight.
The Australian team of Loki and Quantum Racing have won the Rolex Challenge international offshore teams racing series that ended with the 61st Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
It has been a remarkable year for Brian Thompson, who came to the rescue of the Oryx Trophy race last February and won it.
One day before the start of leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race, the members of the Ericsson Racing Team are enjoying their last moments of peace before entering a whole new wild world: the Southern Ocean.
Among the crew of the Greenpeace ships in the harsh waters of the Southern Ocean, he is known as the whale rider. Australian activist Mikey Rosato’s defiant action of standing on the back of a harpooned whale
China’s largest sino-foreign capital investment project, the petrochemical project off South China Sea has completed construction and will go into production soon, said sources with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China’s largest offshore oil producer.
KOLKATA: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is expected to assess the commercial viability of the Bengal Offshore deposit within the next two to three weeks.
Solo sailor Dee Caffari has repaired her autopilots and is making full speed towards Cape Horn in an attempt to get round the treacherous area on Monday with favourable northerly winds.
BAE Systems has sold its German sonar business Atlas Elektronik to the European aerospace group EADS and Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Technologies. They will pay about
The Indian Navy spent the year 2005 furthering its policy of ‘Reaching Out to Maritime Neighbours’ to enhance peace and security in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and demonstrate its role as a stabilising force in the area.
