The Sheboygan County Planning and Resources Department will hold a public meeting tonight to discuss plans to resume dredging of… [mappress] Source: sheboyganpress, June 29, 2010;
RESOURCE industry sources are expecting the imminent announcement of a separate tax regime to apply to coal seam gas-to-liquefied natural ga… [mappress] Source: Courier Mail, June 29, 2010;
The Stena Forth deep sea drilling vessel, which has been undergoing maintenance repairs off the Maine coast since June 17, is scheduled to depart the area today to continue its global mission of oil exploration. Late last week, Cianbro finished installing the last of three new propulsion units on th
Salamander Energy plc, the Asia focussed independent oil and gas exploration and production company, announces that it has plugged and abandoned the Tom Su Lua-1X exploration well in Block DBSCL-01, in the Vinh Chau Graben system, offshore southern Vietnam. The DBSCL01-TSL-1X well, the first explora
Eastern China’s Anhui Province will invest 16 billion yuan (2.35 billion U.S. dollars) for flood control work on one of China’s most flood… [mappress] Source: english.anhuinews, June 29, 2010;
Ship Equip announced the 1000th order for its SEVSAT system. The SEVSAT solution (which stands for Ship Equip VSAT) provides reliable and cost-effective satellite communications for a wide variety of vessels at sea. Core markets for Ship Equip include shipping, commercial fisheries, offshore oil/gas
These days, everybody wants a new port, with the help of some government cash and perhaps a chunk of change from the federal Atlantic… [mappress] Source: thechronicleherald, June 29, 2010;
The fishing ban has expanded in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the oil spill. All commercial and recreational fishing including catch and release is prohibited in the closed area; however, transit through the area is allowed.
Costa Cruises, the largest Italian travel group and Europe’s n.1 cruise line, inaugurated on 26 June 2010 the new international cruise terminal in Tianjin with the first port call of the Costa Romantica (53,000 gross tonnage and total Guest capacity of about 1,700). The opening of the new terminal i
Pirates have taken control of the tanker Golden Blessing 90 nautical miles off the northern Somali coast. The vessel has a crew of 19 Chinese citizens; there are no reports of injuries. The 14,445 DWT Singapore-flagged tanker was carrying a cargo of ethylene glycol when hijacked.
EnCore Oil plc provides an update on the Catcher East side-track well located in UK Central North Sea block 28/9. The 28/9-1Z well has successfully encountered excellent quality oil bearing sandstones very similar to those in the Catcher discovery well, with average porosity of approximately 34 per
Two new quay cranes (QC) at Tartous International Container Terminal (TICT) in the Port of Tartous in Syria have recently been innaurgurated. Manufactured by Konecranes, each QC has a capacity load under spreader of 50 tons and a load under hook boom of 70 tons. It can move boxes at over 30 moves pe
Riga City Council announced a tender for contract for the transfer of the port of Riga from downtown to the Russian island (Krievu sala). Total project cost is estimated at 130 million lats (about EUR183.5 million), including 75 million lats of Port Riga’s fund, the rest – of the EU’s fund. Only sev
BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. Subsea Source Control and Containment Two systems continue to collect oil and gas flowing from the Deepwater Horizon’s failed blow-out preventer (BOP) and transport them to vessels on th
