Husky Operations Limited has awarded AKCS Offshore Partner the EPC and Maintenance Support Services contract in connection with the Production and Operations of the White Rose Field. The contract is valued at approximately CAN$75 million for a period of five years, with option for renewals for fifte
A Royal Navy frigate is returning to its Devon base after a nine-month deployment. HMS Monmouth has sailed 40,000 miles, been involved in foreign warship exercises and visited 28 ports in 19 countries.
The Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday for a missing 77-year-old cruise ship passenger. The search began Saturday after Carnival Corp.’s Fantasy reported that the passenger was unaccounted for after mooring at the Port of New Orleans following a five-day cruise.
A detailed salvage effort is under way in Central Queensland to try to move a 75,000-tonne bulk carrier that ran aground in the Gladstone Harbour. The Endeavour River ran aground yesterday afternoon while loaded with bauxite.
A ship that has run aground in Gladstone Harbour off the central Queensland coast may not be refloated until Wednesday. The 75,000-tonne bauxite carrier ‘Endeavour River’ is stuck fast in mud, after striking a navigational buoy while on its way to berth.
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and Total E&P Angola, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total, announce a new oil discovery with the fourteenth exploration well, Alho-1, drilled on Block 32 in the ultra deep waters of the Angolan offshore.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says it hopes to interview the captain of a foreign merchant ship, suspected of colliding with a fishing trawler off Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
To meet the needs and support the growth of offshore newbuilding work in China, DNV is committing extensive resources and moving its Asia head office from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Shanghai, China
Imtech (technical services provider in Europe) announces its acquisition of Metubsa S.A., a Spanish specialist in industrial maintenance. With 70 employees, Metubsa’s estimated revenue in 2007 is 4 million euro. The acquisition sum (including earn-out) is based on five times the EBITA for 2007. This
In this newly created function, John Harrison will as General Counsel be responsible in the Executive Committee for all group legal, corporate and compliance matters and will report to the Chairman and CEO of TECHNIP, Thierry Pilenko. Prior to his appointment and since 2003, John Harrison was Genera
Golden Ocean Group Limited is pleased to advise that the Company has fixed out on time charter the two Panamax vessels Mulberry Paris and Mulberry Wilton. The vessels presently traded in the spot market will be delivered to their Charterer by the end of the first quarter of 2008 and will be on time
With over half of its population living below sea level, the Netherlands is particularly at risk from the effects of climate change. One new idea is to build an island in the North Sea — in the shape of a Tulip.
The California state pilots board suspended the license Friday of Capt. John Cota, who was the pilot onboard the container ship Cosco Busan when it sideswiped the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Nov. 7 and spilled about 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into the water.
Is it a bird? Is is a plane? No it’s a yacht – well sort of….. Appearing recently in the International Yacht Show, it’s the Focus 21 from France and it can not only sail the seven seas, it can fly over them as well. The Yacht’s design is one of a giant wing with […]
