Apache Corporation today announced that a subsidiary has signed an agreement with a Chevron Corp. subsidiary and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) regarding sales of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone project in Western Australia. Apache Julimar Pty Ltd, an Apache su
The Japanese owned Panama-flagged cargo vessel Mv Izumi has been hijacked in the Somali Basin. In the early hours of October 11 the captain of the Mv Izumi made contact with the Danish Nato warship Hdms Esbern Snare, stating that pirates were in charge of the vessel.
UK based oil and gas engineering and fabrication contractor OGN Group is the new name for former SLP Production after it emerged from a financial crisis. One of the company’s subsidiaries SLP Engineering went into administration in November 2009, and that entity based in Lowestoft was bought by a su
Statoil will together with Talisman Energy acquire 97,000 net acres of shale resources in Texas. shale formation Eagle Ford is located in Southwest Texas, Statoil reports. The acquisition costs US$ 1.325 billion.
“This is a great occasion for Cunard Line and a great occasion for Britain,” said Peter Shanks, president and managing director of Cunard Line, a day ahead of the christening of the new 90,900-ton, 2,068-passenger Queen Elizabeth by Her Majesty The Queen.
Aluminium boat builder Alnmaritec has announced the successful launch of its one-hundredth vessel. ‘Endurance’ was launched in August of this year nearly a century after Shackleton’s original boat and it is has been built for duties in windfarm maintenance support roles.
United States: The Port of San Francisco has became the first Californian port, and one of only a handful of ports in the world, to provide shoreside electrical power for cruise ships while at berth.
First gas began to flow on 10 October through the Gjøa Gas Pipe (GGP) tying this Norwegian North Sea field and its Vega satellite to Britain’s Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System (Flags). The 28-inch line runs for 130 kilometres from Gjøa to the tie-in point with the Shell-operated Flags-pip
IHC Dredgers has commissioned Siemens Industry Solutions in The Hague, the Netherlands, to provide the electrical installation on board DEME’s cutter suction dredger Ambiorix – under construction at the Hardinxveld-Giessendam yard. Apart from the electrical components, to be delivered to the yard in
Jan De Nul Group is pleased to inform that on September 28th a contract was signed with the Peruvian Government for the further deepening of the access channel to the port of Callao. The scope of works consists in deepening the port from current 14 meters to 16 meters, converting Callao in one of th
The Rooster EI 28 Well #6 encountered 60’ of high quality pay in two zones of stacked Cib Carst reservoir sands. Pressure data indicates that these zones are part of the same accumulations. The Well #6 was drilled to a total depth of 10,950’ in 15 feet of water. Initial production from the lower Cib
DP World has commissioned a $500m port in the Callao district of Peru. The Muelle Sur port can handle around 850,000teu annually… (ship-technology) [mappress] Source: ship-technology, October 11, 2010;
Good progress is being made by the two dredges being used for Phase 2 of the dredging and, at this stage, this phase of the dredging should be completed well before the contracted completion date of 19 November. Specialist dredging company Boskalis Australia Pty Ltd is using two of its most sophisti
The Rajang River has become navigable again after a massive logjam caused by widespread landslides upriver cleared, bringing relief to operators of passenger and cargo vessels. The long stretch of logs and wooden debris floating from Balleh in the Kapit Division over the past two days has drifted to
