Pipeline engineering specialist, STATS Group, is expanding in to the Asia Pacific region with the appointment of Chris Lilley as business development manager in Singapore. The Aberdeen isolation and intervention technology company has recently secured a number of key contracts in Asia and believes c
Begun in December 2007, development of the Pazflor oil field 150 kilometers offshore Angola is one of the biggest projects currently operated by Total. A number of technological challenges — including subsea gas/liquid separation, a world first — are being met to bring the field on stream successful
Talk about union between the energy industries is nothing new. But over the past six months, oil giants have demonstrated a renewed… (business7) [mappress] Source: business7 , March 11, 2011
DFDS, the Danish shipping company and one of the world’s largest ferry operators, recently signed a contract for the construction of two identical Ro-Ro vessels. Scheduled for delivery in 2012, the ships’ design is tailored towards operation on DFDS’ commercial network, but will also meet parameters
The plan to transform salt ponds into productive habitats took a step forward Tuesday when a local company was contracted to begin work… BY JEN LEBRON KUHNEY (signonsandiego) [mappress] Source: signonsandiego, March 11, 2011
The country’s economic growth is demanding more and more importance to investing in river dredging by formulating an integrated plan to improve the water-based traffic activities, experts said at a seminar Tuesday. They attached importance to increasing private investment in the dredging sector to i
The US Army Corps of Engineers is using an additional guide boat at Lock and Dam 25 near Winfield, Missouri to assist tows bound downriver after four loaded barges broke loose and sank Sunday. While the barges are not in the navigation channel, their location has altered the current enough that a sm
Samskip is pleased to advise that the company has taken ownership control over two newly-built Damen 800 container vessels. According to Jens Holger Nielsen, CEO, Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics, the 804TEU ships, “Samskip Innovator” and “Samskip Endeavour”, are already completed and will ent
Retailers in North Europe now have a faster and reliable connection for importing garments and textiles from one of the world’s largest sourcing area that exists in South Asia as Maersk Line launches its ICON Service. The service that offers a direct and dedicated call from Chennai in India to North
Korea provides setting for classification-society approval and subsequent, successful sea trial MAN Diesel & Turbo has announced that its latest, mark-9, 80-cm-bore engine recently passed its Type Approval Test (TAT). The super-long-stroke S80ME-C9 engine now powers a Maersk Line container vessel an
SeaVsat, a leader in wireless communication via the Vsat satellite system, opens a new head-office on the carribean Island of Curacao. The new head-office at the Dutch overseas Island will be used to deliver service and support to the increasing number of offshore customers in the Carribean. SeaVsat
Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of OAO Gazprom, and Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel, Board member of BASF, responsible for the Oil & Gas Division, signed in St. Petersburg a Memorandum which foresees possible development on a parity basis of two additional sites of the Achimov
Massachusetts regulators are adopting a new standard for approving utility mergers by requiring companies prove the merger will help the… By Steve LeBlanc (therepublic) [mappress] Source: therepublic , March 11, 2011
Massachusetts regulators are adopting a new standard for approving utility mergers by requiring companies prove the merger will help the… By Steve LeBlanc (therepublic) [mappress] Source: therepublic , March 11, 2011
