The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has invited nations to submit proposals to limit shipping’s impact on Antarctica’s unique environment. The IMO’s environment committee recognised campaigners’ fears that the continent’s waters were at risk from the rising number of ships in the area.
Providence is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of its seismic acquisition programme in the Celtic Sea and St. Georges Channel area, offshore Ireland. The programme, first announced on 15 September, 2006 was carried out by Gardline Surveys Limited utilising the MV Sea Surveyor. In total,
The deepest port in Africa with a draft of 17 meters is to be constructed by Lagos Port LFTZ Enterprises along Atlantic coast at Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos by the first quarter of 2009, Mr. A Sivaram, Managing Director of the company, has said. The port which is expected to gulp a total sum of [&hell
Design Unlimited are delighted to announce their first project with Dubois Naval Architects. The brief for the new 36M building in New Zealand was for a modern interior with little or no wooden finishes. This has involved a challenging search for innovative and striking finishes and fabrics includin
Total announces today that it has sold a 20% stake in the Taoudenni Ta7 and Ta8 permits in Mauritania to Qatar Petroleum International. Total is the operator, with a 60% stake now. The blocks represent a total surface of 58,000 square kilometres. The assignment agreement was signed yesterday by his
Royal Dutch Shell Plc chief executive Jeroen van der Veer will today ask governments to act swiftly to adopt new policies and mechanisms that promote lower CO2 emissions as part of society’s response to the threat of climate change. Speaking in Brussels at the European launch of the Shell Energy Sce
BP and ConocoPhillips today announced they have combined resources to start Denali – The Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately four billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets, and will be the largest private sector construction project ever built in North America. The p
Italian film star Sophia Loren has named a giant luxury cruise liner at a launch party at the Port of Dover. The Oscar-winning actress joined Prince and Princess Michael of Kent on board MSC Poesia for the event before it sailed from the Kent port for Venice.
Airport taxes and delays have led motoring tourists to return to ferries ‘in their thousands’, according to Dover Harbour Board. The board said tourist car journeys reached nearly 2.84m last year – the highest annual total since 1999.
The world’s fourth-largest container port operator, Dubai Ports World, has seen its profits rise by 52% in 2007. It earnt $419.7m (£210m) from ongoing operations and was also upbeat on its performance so far in 2008.
A new 115,000-tonne cruise ship has arrived in its home port of Southampton ahead of its official entry into passenger service. The £300m Ventura, which can carry up to 3,600 passengers, will be named by actress Dame Helen Mirren at the Hampshire port on Wednesday 16 April.
Lundin Petroleum AB is pleased to announce that it has started mobilisation and installation of the marine drilling complex that will drill the Morskaya-1 exploration well in the Lagansky block, situated in the northern Caspian Sea. Lundin Petroleum has currently a 70 percent net interest in the Lag
Lundin Petroleum AB is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Lundin Malaysia BV, has signed three new PSCs with PETRONAS in Kuala Lumpur on April 7, 2008. The PSCs cover Blocks PM308A and PM308B in the Penyu Basin offshore Peninsular Malaysia and Block SB303, offshore Sabah.
The French Government says it has made contact with Somali pirates who seized a luxury French megayacht Le Ponant and its 32 crew on Friday. The 88 metre 850-tonne three-masted megayacht was sailing to Malta in the Mediterranean from the Seychelles when it was seized with its crew of 22 French natio
