An MIT researcher has a vision: Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them. The trick? The wind turbines are floating on platforms a hundred miles out to sea, where
Total announces the signature of an agreement with Japanese energy company INPEX to acquire a 24% interest in Block WA 285-P, located in approximately 250 meters of water offshore northwestern Australia. The proposed transaction is subject to the approval of the Australian authorities in the near fu
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Another 170 Electric Boat employees received lay off notices this week, bringing the total number workers to be let go this year to nearly 800. The latest round of jobs cuts affects shipyard workers, 154 hourly employees and 16 salaried workers. They were notified Monday that their last day will be
Ocean Yacht Systems Limited (OYS), one of the world’s leading suppliers to the Superyacht market is proud to announce the launch of OYS Thrusters
A remote-operated probe on Thursday found a sunken tanker in an upright position with little sign that it is continuing to leak oil that has tainted coastlines in the central Philippines, coast guard officials said. “It’s still upright, its not overturned … it is only leaning on the starboard side,”
The fishing vessel Zodiak flying the flag of Belize was arrested in southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk on suspicion of poaching on August 30, the head of the public relations department of the Federal Security Service
In July of 2006, W&W Marine completed a contract from Gulfstream Gas & Oil to conduct a video and sonar survey of a 74 mile stretch of pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The natural gas line which runs from Coden, Alabama to Florida
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Dredging operations that will facilitate major improvements to port facilities on the Charlottetown waterfront will get underway in a matter of days. Beaver Marine Ltd. of Halifax was awarded the contract for dredging operations that will remove 2,800 cubic metres of silt and other material from thi
A venture of two defense giants, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, will receive $54.8 million to design and develop a missile launch system for Navy combat ships. The company performing the contract is NetFires, which will work to meet the Navy’s deadline of integrating the non-line-of-sight launch syst
MANILA — Nine executives of a shipping company that owns a tanker that sank and caused a massive oil spill in Guimaras were ordered to be added to an immigration bureau watch list Wednesday, the justice department said.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, August 30, 2006 – The Texas-based Rowan Companies has announced a US$45 million (US$1 = $TT6) contract to drill four offshore oil wells in Trinidad and Tobago. The Rowan Gorilla III will soon relocate to Trinidad to begin a one-year term contract. The new contract is with an
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