Technip has been awarded by Mariner Energy, Inc. a contract for an electro-hydraulic control umbilical(1) for the Bass Lite field development in the Gulf of Mexico. This contract follows the pipeline contract awarded to Technip in 2006 for the same field.
Today, at Gazprom’s headquarters, Gazprom’s acting Chief Executive Officer Alexander Ananenkov, General Director of OOO Sevmorneftegaz Yury Komarov, and Chief Executive Officer of Total Christophe de Margerie have signed a Framework Agreement for Cooperation in the Development of the First Phase of
Hiab, the business area providing load handling solutions within Cargotec, has signed an agreement to acquire a service company in Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. Bay Equipment Repairs Inc. is a long-term service partner of Hiab and it offers shop and mobile services in Florida to a variety of customers, mos
The Spanish Civil Guard has intercepted a boat operated by a US company amid a row over treasure from a shipwreck. The guard had been ordered by a Spanish judge to seize the vessel as soon as it left the British colony of Gibraltar.
Attempts are being made to break the stricken container ship MSC Napoli in two in east Devon. The container vessel was rebeached on Thursday after earlier being refloated when a diving survey revealed it was more severely damaged than feared.
On July 11 PRISCO has launched the second Suezmax type ship named “PRISCO Alcor”. Tanker of 166 00 DWT is under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard in South Korea.
Today Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) announced the incorporation of Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Limited (4), a joint venture between an affiliate of QP (70%) and an affiliate of Shell (30%), which will own the Qatargas 4 project’s onshore and offshore assets. At the same even
Amels announces the delivery of Deniki, the first in its highly successful LIMITED EDITIONS AMELS 171 semi-custom series. The LIMITED EDITIONS series was introduced just two years ago, at the Monaco show in September 2005, when preliminary data, drawings, and a model of the AMELS 171 were shown to t
A ship carrying the first delivery of fuel to North Korea, under a key nuclear disarmament deal, has left a South Korean port. The ship, carrying 6,200 tons of oil, is expected to arrive in North Korea on Saturday.
A team of explorers has set sail from the US for Spain in a 12-metre-long (40ft) reed boat, hoping to spend about two months sailing across the Atlantic. They are trying to prove that Stone Age people crossed the ocean thousands of years before Christopher Columbus in the 15th Century.
DP World is set to build and manage a container terminal in Rotterdam, the biggest port in Europe, as part of a consortium with four other shipping companies.
A South Korean cargo ship was sinking Thursday in waters off Oman, leaving a dozen crew members missing, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said.
China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC), one of the nation’s leading shipbuilding groups, will seek an initial public offering (IPO) in 2007, according to sources close to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC). Headquartered in Beijing, CSIC is reportedly planning
The Jan De Nul Group has placed orders with Tianjin Xinhe Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Co.Ltd. in Tianjin, China for 8 new vessels. With these orders the cooperation between Tianjin Xinhe Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Co.Ltd. and the Jan De Nul Group continues. Since 2003 Xinhe Shipyard has built a
