Motor and sailing superyachts are invited to compete in the inaugural Hamilton Island Superyacht Series which will be staged between November 9 and 14, 2008 on courses around some of the most beautiful Great Barrier Reef islands Australia has to offer.
City Index Leopard will be looking to take line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, making her the first boat ever to take line honours in both the Rolex Fastnet Race and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in the same year.
Wild salmon on Canada’s west coast are being driven to extinction by parasites from nearby fish farms, a study claims. Wild pink salmon around the Broughton Archipelago are declining rapidly and will die out within 10 years if no action is taken, say researchers.
An inspection of the ship which delivers up to half of Guernsey’s food and other goods has revealed its hull is damaged after it almost ran aground. Strong winds forced caused the Commodore Goodwill to hit La Collette yacht basin in St Helier harbour.
The 25-foot yacht Ouzo disappeared in August 2006 with the loss of three lives. A ferry officer was charged over the incident, accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ and failing to raise the alarm after the Pride of Bilbao was involved in a near-miss with what was alleged to have been Ouzo. He was subsequ
‘We are treating the Statfjord spill with the greatest concern. I have today informed the board about the spill and the emergency actions implemented,’ says Helge Lund, chief executive officer of StatoilHydro.
The oil slick from the Statfjord oil spill on 12 December is moving towards the north-east. According to StatoilHydro’s calculations it has reached the Snorre field in the North Sea.
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract for approx EUR 30 million for the manufacture and supply of the main diesel generating sets and their auxiliary and support systems for the Royal Navy’s Future Aircraft Carriers (CVF) by Thales Naval Division on behalf of the Aircraft Carrier Alliance. The cont
A gang of Somali pirates has left a Japanese chemical tanker they hijacked six weeks ago, freeing its crew and ending a stand-off with US navy ships. The pirates ended their occupation of the vessel just days after demanding a $1m (£500,000) ransom.
Lundin Petroleum AB is pleased to announce that operations on development well 2/5-25 on the Broom Field in Block 2/5, production licence P242, on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS), have commenced. Well 2/5-25 will be drilled as a sidetrack of one of the three existing production wells on
The average daily production was about 2 201 000 barrels of oil, about 297 000 barrels of NGL (Natural Gas Liquids) and about 72 000 barrels of condensate, in total of 2 570 000 barrels liquid.
Royal Dutch Shell plc and HR Biopetroleum today announced the construction of a pilot facility in Hawaii to grow marine algae and produce vegetable oil for conversion into biofuel. The announcement is a further step in Shell’s ongoing effort to develop a new generation of biofuels using sustainable,
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Chinese archaeologists are hoping to recover the wreckage of an ancient merchant ship loaded with exquisite porcelain before the end of the year, says the Ministry of Communications. The vessel, which dates back more than 800 years, was supposed to have been raised from the seabed off south China in
