As shipping turns to slow steaming to reduce costs and faces increased emissions control measures, the process and challenge of procuring marine lubricants has taken on greater complexity and significance, Total Lubmarine, one of the world’s leading global supplier of marine lubricants and greases,
Athens/Greece, Hamburg/Germany, 13 April 2011 – In order to improve their strategic and operational ship management activities, Greek oil and shipping company Aegean Bunkering Services decided to implement Germanischer Lloyd’s fleet management software suite GL ShipManager and GL FleetAnalyzer. Germ
FLEX LNG has come to an agreement with InterOil, Pacific LNG, LNGL and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to develop what is likely to become the first ever floating facility to produce LNG. The project would liquefy natural gas from the onshore Elk and Antelope gas fields in the Gulf Province in Papua
Ron Boswell, senator for the Australian state of Queensland, and member of the opposition Liberal National Party coalition today promised the Federal Labor Government “the mother of all campaigns” in every coastal seat in Australia over the government’s looming plans for “massive marine reserves”. A
It’s not just dolphins and whales that suffer from the noise of shipping, sonar and oil prospecting. Experiments on squid, cuttlefish and octopuses show that their balancing organs are so badly damaged by sound similar to submarine noise pollution that they become practically immobile. The consequen
The Sea Asia conference and exhibition, Asia’s iconic show for the maritime sector taking place in Singapore this week, continued at a pace this morning with sessions on finance, the global LNG fleet, and a high-powered array of technical sessions. While visitors to the exhibition at the Marina Bay
Deltamarin has signed an agreement with the Chinese Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. for the design of 4 Handymax Bulk Carriers to be built for the French shipowners Louis Dreyfus Armateurs. Deltamarin will take care of the Basic and Detail design of the vessels as well as Techn
The project manager of the South Pars gas field phase 12 at the Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), Rasoul Fallahnejad, says the phase’s gas pipe laying has been completed. He went on to say that, laying operation in lines A and B respectively with 149 and 140 kilometers had been completed and the [&he
Recently, DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering) held a ceremony for naming the first 400,000 DWT VLOC in the world. This newbuilding vessel is the largest bulk carrier in the world, with length of 360 meters, width of 65 meters and depth of 30.4 meters, and the order was signed in October
LNG Energy Ltd. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, BWB Exploration LLC, has entered into an agreement to sell all of its working interest in approximately 2,800 net acres of oil and gas lease holdings in Carter County, Oklahoma to an undisclosed buyer for approximately US$5,180,000 in cash
Sub-Saharan focused Tower Resources still plans its first offshore well in Namibia by the end of 2011, the company revealed today. By Giles Gwinnet (Proactive Investors) [mappress] Source:Proactiveinvestors , April 13, 2011
In response to the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, DSME has collected 700 million won. The company launched a donation campaign for Japan after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan, unleashing a massive tsunami. All of DSME’s employees participated in the c
TÜV Rheinland has received an order from RWE Innogy GmbH to supervise the production of wind turbines for the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm (tuv) [mappress] Source: tuv, April 13, 2011
Raytheon Company has delivered critical mission systems early for the U.S. Navy’s DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer. The ship’s first Total Ship Computing Environment (TSCE) data center and AN/SQS-60 mid-frequency sonar array were delivered two and eight months ahead of schedule, respectively. “The e
