DUBAI-based oilfield services firm Topaz Energy and Marine plans to raise $500m (£311m) in a London listing.
Looking at the statistics and headlines of the first quarter of 2011 with regard to liner shipping, one would be forgiven for thinking that 2011 looks like a repeat of previous years.
Mols-Linien A/S will close the ro-pax ferry service between Århus and Kalundborg as soon as possible, pending a sale of the two units.
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South Korea's Samsung Engineering has been awarded contracts to build the multibillion dollar Shaybah natural gas liquids (NGL) project in eastern Saudi Arabia, state oil giant Saudi Aramco said on Wednesday.
Tucked into a sheltered cove on the northwest corner of Batam Island, Nongsa Jay Buana Shipyard is approached via a short causeway and a road built into the reddish earth of Indonesia’s Batam Island. On entering the yard, the car passes an area of land that is dominated by a series of barges under construction and then on past a double row of eight tugs also under construction.
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) signed a US $1.2 billion contract with BP to build a floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for the Quad 204 Project West of Shetland. The sanction for the project is expected to be given in early May 2011.
Tom Hanks will star as Captain Richard Phillips of the trading ship Maersk Alabama, who surrendered himself to the pirates in order to save his crew.
The U.S. says a cargo ship and its load of American food aid for Africa has been delayed for weeks in Angola because of questions about ammunition it also was carrying.
The city gas bureau in Sendai in northern Japan has confirmed that last week’s earthquake and tsunami caused serious damage to its LNG import, regasification and distribution facilities at Sendai port.
The Spanish shipyard METALSHIPS & DOCKS has recently delivered the world’s longest offshore construction vessel, M/V North Sea Giant, to the Norwegian owner North Sea Shipping.
MAN Diesel & Turbo says that its Mk9 80-cm bore super-long-stroke engine recently completed its type approval test (TAT) at engine builder HHI-EMD, a division of Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea
The Zola gas discovery in the Carnarvon Basin is shaping as one of the biggest off the North West in the past few years after Tap Oil, one of the permit owners, claimed the find was likely to be at the upper end of its estimate of one to two trillion cubic feet of gas.
Apache Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Apache Deepwater LLC, has agreed to join Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC), a not-for-profit, independent organization committed to being continuously ready to respond to a well control incident in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
The Spanish shipyard METALSHIPS & DOCKS has recently delivered the world’s longest offshore construction vessel, M/V North Sea Giant, to the Norwegian owner North Sea Shipping.
Polarcus has signed a letter of intent with Lansdowne Oil & Gas to acquire 3D seismic in the Celtic Sea off southern Ireland.
The partners in licenses containing three discoveries in the Norwegian North Sea have submitted an application for an environmental impact assessment, which could lead to a joint development.
VERIPOS has been awarded a long-term contract by Petrobras for provision of positioning services in support of the Brazilian state-owned company’s BGL-1 pipeline installation barge operations.
Exxon Mobil Corporation said today it would donate $1 million to the Japanese Red Cross Society to provide disaster relief assistance in response to the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Propulsion and power specialist Tognum decided at its recent meeting of the supervisory board that Dieter Royal will join the executive board as the new member responsible for the finance and corporate services division effective 1 October 2011.
Aminex signed a rental contract for use of the Caroil-6 drilling rig at Nyuni Island, offshore Tanzania.
Neptune Marine Services Limited announces the Chief Executive Officer of MTQ Corporation Ltd (MTQ), Mr Boon Wee Kuah, has joined the Neptune Board of Directors. Earlier this month, the Singapore-based company became a key cornerstone investor in Neptune.
Paris-headquartered Bourbon reports that revenues in 2010 came to EUR 849.9 million, up 4.6 percent from the previous year. Compared with the second half of 2009, revenues in the second half of 2010 were up 9.6 percent to EUR 443.6 million.
Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries announced today in a regulatory filing that it has won two drillships worth KRW 1.245trn ($1.1bn) from an American shipowner.
Austal USA, Mobile, Ala., is being awarded a $19,665,646 modification to previously awarded contract to exercise options for special studies, analyses, review and class- service efforts for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program.
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