The DNR is asking for residential input on a proposal to use river sediment at the Lincoln County landfill… [mappress] Source: wsau, July 13, 2010;
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, confirms that the Toroa F61/5-1 exploration well has been drilled to a total depth of 2476 metres and logging operations have now been completed. The well did not encounter
While the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to wreak havoc and make headlines, Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil industry… [mappress] Source: QMIagency,July 12, 2010;
A coalition of six environmental groups and three private citizens last week filed suit in federal court, claiming that federal agencies… [mappress] Source: capenews, July 12, 2010;
State-owned Chinese oil producer Sinopec said Monday its Addax subsidiary has struck oil offshore Nigeria after the unit was acquired last… [mappress] Source: AP, July 12, 2010;
US super-major Chevron has announced a new deepwater natural gas discovery in a Chevron-operated block in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia, Australia’s premier hydrocarbon basin. The Clio-3 discovery well is located in the WA-205-P permit area approximately 150 kilometres northwest of
Fargo-Moorhead officials are lobbying hard for federal funding for a Red River diversion project. The goal is to get the $1.4 billion … by Dan Gunderson [mappress] Source: minnesota.publicradio, July 12, 2010;
APM Terminals, a unit of Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), agreed to sell its stake in a port terminal in France to a unit of French rival CMA CGM, while buying CMA’s stake in a terminal in the United States, the companies said on Friday. APM Terminals’ spokesman decline
China took number one position in new order volumes for the first half of 2010, according to statistics from the Korea Shipbuilders Association (KOSHIPA) and Clarkson Research Services. China inked new ship orders totaling 5.02 million gross tonnes, or 41 percent of the global total.
Julia Gillard faces demands to wind back the Fair Work Act for businesses reeling from an explosion in shipping costs. The cost of shipping cargo has escalated because of Labor’s workplace policy. Shippers are passing on the costs of regulations that require them to pay local wages to foreign seafar
U.K. natural gas grid operator National Grid PLC (NGG) Monday said the Al Kharsaah liquefied natural gas ship berthed at its Isle of Grain… [mappress] Source: automatedtrader , July 6, 2010;
A European Union official has called for a temporary drilling ban in the North Sea to be imposed until the exact cause of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the US Gulf of Mexico is uncovered. Gunther Oettinger, the European Union’s Energy Commissioner has called for the temporary drilling ban – echo
Oil giant Shell has put its Gibraltar branch up for sale. Part of a global strategy to focus on ‘upstream’ business and emerging markets, the sell-off package includes two petrol stations — and a major superyacht fuel supply outlet. “We believe that this package offers an attractive opportunity for
While SMM in Hamburg is traditionally associated most closely with advanced marine technology, this year the exhibition – which moves from its traditional end-of-September time slot to the beginning of September, is planning a variety of companion conferences and events. Ship financing is a focal is
