Lukoil, Vanco and state oil company partners GNPC and PETROCI, are preparing for an intensive West African exploration and appraisal drilling program for two contract areas in the Gulf of Guinea, including Cape Three Points Deep Water (CTPDW, Republic of Ghana) and CI-401 (Republic of Cóte d’Ivoire)
Apache Corporation said today that three successful wells appraising the Balnaves-1 discovery in License WA-356-P offshore Western Australia will trigger development planning by subsidiary Apache Julimar Ltd Pty. Balnaves is an oil accumulation in the Mungaroo formation in a separate reservoir benea
When Portlethen Academy pupil Darren Bragg popped along the road for a job interview at a local engineering firm, little did he realise that he would be heading up the company’s new US base just seven years later. Darren left school a fortnight before his 16th birthday and secured employment at near
The Kazakh-Russian joint working group is expected to present soon a proposal for the construction of a “Eurasia” canal linking the Caspian… By Roman Muzalevsky (atimes) [mappress] Source: atimes, October 15, 2010
Santos today announced the successful launch and pricing of a €300 million follow-on hybrid issue (approximately A$420 million). This follows Santos’ debut issue of a €700 million 100% equity credit Euro hybrid which settled on 22 September 2010. This will bring the total amount of hybrid capital ra
Egypt’s Prime Minister HE Ahmed Nazif and DP World Chairman HE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem today officiated at a signing ceremony of an … (thisismoney) [mappress] Source: thisismoney, October 15, 2010;
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ project to dredge the Merrimack River channel and use the sand to replenish part of Plum Island’s beach… By Victor Tine (newburyportnews) [mappress] Source: newburyportnews, October 15, 2010;
Ennore Port, India’s only corporatised major port, is in talks with the Centre for an initial public offer (IPO) to raise funds for its … (news) [mappress] Source: news, October 15, 2010;
Angry residents of the Upper Long Lake Woods Subdivision spoke out to the West Bloomfield Board of Trustees on Monday, Oct. 4 regarding the… By Michael Shelton (spinalcolumnonline) [mappress] Source: spinalcolumnonline, October 15, 2010;
Namibia’s port authority Namport plans to spend R2.7 billion (N$2.7bn) on upgrading the port of Walvis Bay within the next three to four years, says Walvis Bay Corridor Group CEO, Johny Smith. As has been previously reported in PORTS & SHIPS, Walvis Bay is to be expanded with a new container termina
Entitled “Working in the Dredging Sector” Young CEDA is organising a series of evening meetings for students and young professionals this October and November. During the evenings various enthusiastic speakers talk about their educative and also interesting experiences during the first years of thei
President Aquino has disapproved a project to dredge Laguna de Bay, saying he found it pointless to spend P18.5 billion just to move dredged… (philstar) [mappress] Source: philstar, October 15, 2010;
General Electric Co. said Wednesday it will remove PCBs from the Housatonic River in western Massachusetts, but still maintained it would be… By Stephen Singer (google) [mappress] Source: google, October 15, 2010;
Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, has allayed fears of the public over delay in the dredging of River Niger, saying much of the… (sunnewsonline) [mappress] Source: sunnewsonline, October 15, 2010;
