The f.Diamond, the global TV station’s 140-meter mega-yacht, will pass through 10 major cities in China, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sanya. The yacht will stop for one week in each host city, invite local talented young designers, models and photographers on board and select a winner af
At the end of December 2007, No Limit Ships shipyard delivered a No Limit 1640 survey vessel to Belgian dredging contrator Jan De Nul.
Sea Shepherd environmentalists say they have caught up with the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and will do everything possible to stop the hunt. The discovery came as the Federal Court outlawed whaling in Australian Antarctic waters in a ruling the government said it would not try to e
Aminex PLC, the oil and gas company listed in London and Dublin provides the following progress report on the GU#38 well at South Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas. GU#38 was spudded on 23 December 2007 and achieved planned total depth of 11,000 feet (3,352 metres) on 9 January in deep Frio sands which
The Schooner Western Union, built in Key West in 1939, is the oldest working wooden schooner in the United States. She is currently at Merrill-Stevens Shipyard receiving some restoration work.
A cargo vessel carrying 643 cars has run aground off the Norfolk coast at Happisburgh Sands. The City of Sunderland is not leaking fuel but she is listing in the high winds, a spokesman for the Yarmouth Coastguard said.
A rescue operation has been launched after a large container ship ran aground off Haisboro sands in the early hours of this morning. The vessel, called The City of Sunderland, is believed to be carrying a cargo of cars and is currently lying on a sand bar eight miles off the north Norfolk coast.
Gas production has increased in 2007. As expected, oil production is somewhat lower than in the previous year. 32 exploration wells were spudded in 2007, up from 26 in 2006. Twelve new discoveries were made, most of which appear to be fairly small. The shelf is characterized by vigorous activity and
A 61-year-old yachtsman who had to be rescued from his boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean first raised the alarm by calling his local pub. Alan Thompson fell on the deck of the vessel and is believed to have broken his pelvis. He managed to reach a satellite phone and immediately called Roger
Twenty crew have been rescued after a cargo ship got into difficulties about 35 miles off the coast of Devon. The Greek-registered Ice Prince, which is carrying 5,260 tonnes of timber, is now drifting in the English Channel.
Total announces the commercial start-up of a large scale liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import and underground storage terminal located in Visakhapatnam, in the south eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. This facility is owned and operated by South Asia LPG Limited (SALPG), a company equally owned
StatoilHydro Petroleum AS, operator of production licences 090 and 090D, has concluded drilling of a development well with an exploration target, well 35/11-B-23-H in the Fram area. The well is located 10 km north of Troll.
TOTAL, SUEZ and AREVA have signed a partnership agreement to submit a nuclear power plant project to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates. Local partners will take part in the project. TOTAL, SUEZ and AREVA intend to submit a proposal for an integrated nuclear power generation solution compri
One of the men involved in an operation to save 20 crew from a cargo ship off the Devon coast says it was the most difficult rescue he has carried out. Mark Criddle, coxswain of the Torbay lifeboat, described how rough seas and gale-force winds made the operation one of their toughest missions.
