At 8:30 am Cyprus time, the Free Gaza and the Liberty rounded the last corner of this lovely island, escorted by the Cypriot Coast Guard, and pulled into the Northern side of the commercial port in Larnaca. “We’ve been waiting a long time to unify our group, which has been split between Cyprus and C
Ramco has appointed Mark Groves Gidney to the Board of Ramco as a Non-Executive Director. Groves Gidney is currently managing director of Environmental Geosciences Limited and will shortly resign to take up his new post. Ramco said in a statement: “Mark is a proven explorer with over 25 years of exp
StatoilHydro says lessons have been learnt after an investigation was carried out into an incident on the Statfjord A platform when an internal leak in the platform hull led to gas accumulation inside the shaft and discharge of oily water to sea. The investigation report into the incident on 24 May,
Norway’s Grenland Group broke a record in the second quarter with gross operating revenues hitting NOK 500 million, up 54% compared with the same quarter in 2007. Grenland also posted a 23% rise in operating profit, delivering an EBITDA for the quarter of NOK 22.1 million, compared with NOK 17.9 mil
Lloyd’s Register EMEA has made its most significant move yet in becoming the leading authority in the provision of risk management services to the nuclear, oil and gas, and transportation sectors, having signed Heads of Terms to acquire 100% of the share capital of Scandpower AS. The acquisition wil
Jochen Wolfram (GER), Jeremy Elliott (IRE), Andy Meiklejohn (NZL) and Nick Bubb (UK) have taken their places onboard Kosatka, Team Russia’s VO70 competing in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. This will be 33 year-old Andy Meiklejohn’s third Volvo Ocean Race. He was a rigger on News Corp in the 2001-02 r
For those who arrived halfway through the event, talk of the morning has been the surprise at seeing islands offshore and mountains inland. The heavy humid conditions that have shrouded the city and the horizon for the last few days were proceeded by monsoon rains so fierce you might as well have be
RSX WOMEN Bryony Shaw crossed the line in second place to take bronze medal in the RSX women’s medal race. China took gold and the Italian sailor Alessandra Sensini, who led throughout the race took silver. RSX MEN But for Nick Dempsey it was heartache. Finishing in 7th in a very short race with lit
News – August 20, 2008 Van Oord in The Netherlands reports that the upgrade of its trailing suction hopper dredger HAM 318 has recently been completed, and the vessel is now back in operation. The vessel now has a hopper capacity of 37,293m³, making it the largest operational trailing suction hopper
News – August 20, 2008 New South Wales’ Minister for Ports & Waterways has confirmed that dredging is about to commence at Port Botany in Australia as part of the first stage of the A$1 billion port expansion. In a statement, Ports and Waterways Minister Joe Tripodi said the dredging process would t
StatoilHydro has been given the go-ahead to carry out major modification work at the Mongstad refinery. The project will involve installing a new sour water stripper A4300, a new sulphur facility and work on an “Amine regeneration system” (H2S recovery unit). T he project will be carried out under t
ODIM has upped its revenue forecast for the year to NOK 2.2 billion after a record second quarter saw the company bringing in NOK 502.1 million. A record order intake of NOK 969 million lead by a strong quarter for the seismic segment, put the order backlog at an all-time high of NOK 2,629 million [
Operator Dong E&P Norge has hit pay in its Ipswich exploration well near the Oselvar discovery in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said. Wildcat well 1/3-11 and sidetrack 1/3-11 T2 were drilled around 10km south of the 1/3-6 Oselvar find, with the aim
******UPDATE******** Paul Goodison lifted Great Britain’s medal tally to four this morning winning gold in a light weather race in which he finished second to last. While the picture may have looked confusing to those who haven’t followed the build up to the medal races, Goodison’s medal winning str
