RasGas Company Limited’s Operations Group (Onshore) recently achieved 20 million man hours without a single lost time incident (LTI) – a safety milestone considered unparalleled in the energy industry. Speaking on behalf of RasGas, Hamad Mubarak Al Muhannadi, RasGas’ Operations Group Manager and Act
With the recent introduction of stringent environmental regulations, such as those from the IMO, shipowners and operators are increasingly obliged to operate their MAN B&W two-stroke main engines on ultra-low sulphur fuels in defined marine zones. CARB (the Californian Air Resource Board) has enforc
Pro Ship , an innovative and dynamic Italian design and engineering bureau, presents the new 28 meter long displacement vessel specifically created for a Singapore – based company “Sea2Sea” for charters in Asian seas.
Cruise ship companies will save up to $100,000 on a single New Zealand visit when levies are slashed this week. The October 1 change to the passenger levy means instead of getting charged $8.29 for every passenger at every port, cruise ships will only pay $3.30.
Containerization may have cut the number of longshoremen on the waterfront, but union dockworkers issued a stinging reminder of their importance to the shipping trade with a wildcat strike Tuesday that shut down the Port of New York and New Jersey.
The Indian shipbuilding industry currently accounts for about 1 per cent of the global shipbuilding market and is targeting a world share of 5 per cent by 2017, the union shipping minister said here on Tuesday.
Statoil thinks it is possible to increase the recovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf with the equivalent of an entire Statfjord field. corresponds to 4.25 billion barrels of oil at a value of 1860 billion kroner, with an oil price of 75 dollars per barrel.
The Netherlands: Dockwise has been selected as the contractor of choice for the transport of 15 onshore modules for the Koniambo Nickel Project in New Caledonia. The project is being developed by Koniambo Nickel SAS, a joint venture between Société Minière du Sud Pacifique (SMSP), and Xstrata Nickel
The five year bond is issued in the international market, and the size is believed to be in the range of 2-400 million dollars. Investors have already committed 200 million, according to a stock exchange notice.
Sakhalin Energy’s LNG plant is now producing at its design capacity, 9.6 million tonnes, company head Andrei Galaev told journalists… (interfax) [mappress] Source: interfax, September 29, 2010;
The latest figures from the Namibian Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources indicate that total fish catches have remained low at 106,100 tonnes during the second quarter of 2010. Comparing these figures with the first six months of last year, there has been a decline of 11.5 percent.
Western India Shipyard today announced that it has secured a new order from its client Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) worth Rs 56.3 million.
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of the management of risk, health, safety, working environment and emergency preparedness in connection with simultaneous operations and modifications on Troll A. The audit was carried out through meetings, interviews and verificat
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today the startup of production from the Odoptu field at the Sakhalin-1 project offshore northeastern Russia. ExxonMobil subsidiary Exxon Neftegas Limited (ENL) is operator on behalf of the five-company international Sakhalin-1 Consortium. “The project applies indus
