With the help of infrared cameras and advanced electronics, the gas processing plant at K
Poland’s Navy has identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany’s only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin. The oil firm Petrobaltic discovered the shipwreck on July 12 on the sea floor about 38 miles north of Gdansk. Suspecting it could be the Graf Zeppelin,
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a two year frame agreement to supply subsea christmas trees to Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras. The contract has a value of approximately USD 84 million. The scope of work comprises 30 subsea christmas trees with associated tools. First call-off is to comprise
The first ropax vessel of the series of five newbuildings has been delivered by Fincantieri to Finnlines in Castellamare Shipyard, Italy. The name of the vessel is MS Finnstar and she will start plying under the Finnish flag between Helsinki, Finland and Travem
The automaker had 4,700 vehicles aboard the automobile carrier Cougar Ace that began taking on water on Sunday and listed so heavily that the 23 member crew had to be rescued on Monday by the US Coast Guard. The 199.3 metre Mitsui OSK. Lines ship was still afloat on Wednesday with its keel and prope
A fishing vessel called the “Ladies Straight” has gone to rescue passengers of another vessel “Joyce Lane” which is stranded in the lagoon south east of Naqaqalevu at Udu Point in Vanua Levu. Savusavu police confirm five passengers are on board Joyce Lane, however, no other details are known.
The contracts are: OMV New Zealand Limited (on behalf of the Maari Joint Venture: Todd Maari Limited, Horizon Oil International Limited, Cue Energy Resources Limited)
ExxonMobil announced today that its affiliate, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), has started up the East Area Additional Oil Recovery project located approximately 17 miles (28 kilometers) offshore Nigeria. MPN (40 percent interest) is operator of the project with co-venture partner Nigerian
Tokyo, July 27, 2006 – Through the consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. and Zachry Construction Corporation, a major construction company in the U.S., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an engineering, procurement and construction contract for two LNG storage tan
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Dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster nv hereby announces that it has won a major contract for the construction of a gas pipeline in Taiwan. The work will be done in approximately five months from April 2007 on. The contract is worth approximately
TONNES of Queensland sugar had to be pumped overboard after a bulk carrier crashed into a coral reef in Papua New Guinea, but authorities are unsure what damage it might do to marine life. Marine salvagers dumped the spoiled sugar into the ocean in order to refloat the Zhi Qiang on July 13 after it
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Cougar Ace was thrown sideways when the massive ship’s ballast tank was adjusted in the open seas of the North Pacific, a representative of the vessel’s owner said yesterday. “There clearly was imbalance in the intake of ballast water. The company investigation ultimately wil
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