John Holland wins Curtis Island LNG marine project

John Holland, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leighton Holdings Ltd has secured a $150 million subcontract for the construction of marine offloading facilities as part of Gladstone LNG’s proposed Curtis Island LNG facility. [Read more] Source: International Business...

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InterOil, Pacific LNG Sign Non-binding Memorandum with Energy World(Philippines)

InterOil Corporation today announced that InterOil and Pacific LNG Operations Ltd., have signed a non-binding memorandum with Energy World Corporation Ltd., which has a permit to construct an LNG Hub Terminal and a 300MW combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power...

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Libyan rebel council vows democracy, to keep oil deals

Libya's rebel national council wants to establish a secular democracy that would respect oil contracts awarded under Muammar Gaddafi if it toppled the Libyan leader, members of the council said in Paris. [Read more] Source: ...

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Calvalley Petroleum says Yemen crisis delays equipment supply

Canada's Calvalley Petroleum Inc said the unrest in Yemen has delayed the supply of its equipment and it has been facing transportation problems, sending shares of the company down 13 percent. [Read more] Source: Reut...

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Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. Makes Deal to Increase Stake in Delaware Basin Oil Play

Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. where CWEI can earn 75% interest in leases held by Chesapeake under approximately 75,000 net acres in southern Reeves County, Texas. CWEI has a commitment to drill at least 20 earning wells in the first year...

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DEP Shuts Down Potter County Gas Well Pre-Construction Site Over Violations, Impacting Public Water Supply

The Department of Environmental Protection has ordered Chesapeake Energy to cease work on a natural gas drilling well pad for failing to comply with regulations and impacting one of Galeton Borough Water Authority's water sources. The well pad was in the site-preparation...

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Maersk Oil says Gryphon damage costs uncertain

Maersk Oil said on Wednesday the costs of storm damage to its Gryphon floating production unit in the UK part of the North Sea remain unclear but the company has normal insurance coverage for it. [Read more] Source: Reut...

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Houston company aids Louisiana oil slick cleanup

A Houston company is helping the Coast Guard clean up oil that has reached the shores of Louisiana even though the company on Wednesday disavowed responsibility for the spill. [Read more] Source: Chron....

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Hyundai Heavy to Equip its Drillships with Thrustmaster 5MW Azimuth Thrusters

Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. received a contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries for the supply and installation of multiple sets of 5MW azimuth thrusters for the next generation deep water drillships being built at Hyundai’s shipyard in Ulsan, Korea. [Read more] Source:...

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Aker Solutions announces control umbilicals contract awarded by Statoil

Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Statoil to supply control umbilicals to the Norne field located in the Northern part of the North Sea. The contract value is approximately NOK 200 million. [Read more] Source: Your Oil and Gas N...

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Clough AMEC Awarded Oil Search Kumul Marine Terminal Contract

Engineering and construction company Clough today announced that Clough AMEC, an incorporated 50/50% joint venture between Clough and AMEC, has been awarded a cost reimbursable contract valued at approximately AU$25m, to provide construction management and execution...

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Nordane tug left for Canada on a heavylifter

The Nordane tug Stevns Icecap, which was sold to the Canadian mining company Rio Tinto Alcan in January, is now under way to Canada on the Dutch heavylift carrier Fairlane. It was loaded on the deck of Fairlane at Svendborg. [Read More] Source: ship...

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Norden secures coal transports

Danish shipping company Norden has secured a five-year contract with the Norwegian state-owned mining company Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani AS for the transport of coal from Svalbard to the European continent. [Read More] Source: ship...

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Chevron taps Technip for FEED on Gendalo, Gehem FPUs offshore Indonesia

Technip was awarded by Chevron a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for two floating production units located offshore Indonesia in the Gendalo and Gehem fields at water depths of 3,500 to 6,000 feet (1,070 to 1,830 meters). [Read more] Source: Penn...

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Largest ro-ro launched by Wilhelmsen

The Wilh. Wilhelmsen group has announced that it has marked its 150th anniversary with the launch of the Mark V ro-ro ship, ‘Tønsberg’, claimed to be the largest ro-ro ship afloat. [Read More] Source: Motors...

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OGX Announces Another Discovery in Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil

OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) , the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced  that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian section of well 3-OGX-36D-RJS,...

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Cnooc Plans New Oil Fields, Acquisitions After Record Profit

Cnooc Ltd. (883), China’s biggest offshore oil producer, plans to start new fields at home and add assets abroad after its fastest output growth boosted annual profit by 85 percent. “Rapid growth of the company’s production will continue over the next few years,”...

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Grand Alliance announces Vietnam call for Asia-Europe service

The Grand Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd (HL), Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL)) will institute a direct Vietnam call at Cai Mep (Vung Tau) deepwater port on its Loop D Asia-Europe service from March 30, 2011. [Read More] Source: Baird Marit...

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Global Industries Awarded Deepwater Subsea Development Installation for LLOG 'Who Dat' Project in Gulf of Mexico

Global Industries, Ltd. announced today that it has been awarded a project from LLOG Deepwater Development Company, L.L.C. for the installation of a deepwater subsea development in the Gulf of Mexico.  The project, which will take place in Blocks MC 503/547,...

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Hyundai Mipo grabs deals

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard announced yesterday it has won eight newbuilding orders including two options, which total around $460m, from Seoul-based Hi Investment Bank (Hi-IB) and Saudi Arabia's state-run shipping company, NSCSA, during this month. [Read More] Source: Seatrade A...

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ClassNK update on damaged Japanese yards

ClassNK chairman and president Noboru Ueda has said it will take about six months to complete repairs at two Japanese shipyards that were devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. 

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Aker takes on Eldfisk modifications

ConocoPhillips Skandinavia has contracted Aker Offshore Partner to modify platforms on the Eldfisk field in the Norwegian North Sea. [Read more] Source: Offshore Magaz...

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Turkish ship almost sinking off Taiwan

On March 22 2011 bulk carrier Costis required assistance 63 nm off Taiwan coast, vessel disabled, with flooded engine room. [Read More] Source: Sea N...

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Freighter sank in the Carribean, 3 missing

On the night of March 19 2011 vessel, lodaded with salt, sank in waters of Belize, some 3 miles east of Caye Caulker village. [Read More] Source: Sea N...

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Government releases DNV's findings on Deepwater Horizon BOP

Federal officials have released a two-volume report from Det Norske Veritas (DNV) on the forensic examination of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer (BOP), and the report recommends additional study be done on the BOP’s failure to close and seal the Macondo...

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UAE tanker fought off pirates in a severe gunfight, 3 crew wounded

Underway in position 03 47 0 N, 053 33 0 E, 315nm SE of Hobyo, Somalia on bearing 287.6, the AL-NOUF was attacked by one skiff with 4 armed pirates, and a second skiff with 10 armed pirates. [Read More] Source: Sea N...

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Three ships in collision in the harbor Vorwerker

On Tuesday afternoon, 22 March 2011, at 14:35 clock, it came during a towing operation with a larger cargo ship in the harbor Vorwerker to a contact with two other ships. [Read More] Source: Sea N...

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Havila Shipping Secures Contract for its AHTS Havila Jupiter

Havila Shipping ASA has entered into a contract with MLS/Total E&P Norge AS for the AHTS vessel Havila Jupiter. Expected commencement is in April. [Read more] Source: Offshore Energy To...

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Cosco carries mega pumper to cool Fukushima reactor

COSCO's joint venture, the Shanghai International Ferry Co Ltd recently succeeded in shipping a giant pumping device to Japan for cooling the troubled reactor in Fukushima nuclear power plant. [Read More] Source: Sea N...

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COSCO Pacific Limited reports results

The Group’s revenue rose by 27.8% to US$446,492,000 (2009: US$349,424,000). The first full-year contribution of revenue from Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. (“Piraeus Terminal”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, led the terminal divisional revenue to...

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Expro Secures Well Testing Contract in Southern North Sea

Leading international oilfield services company Expro has secured a £1.5million contract with an international oil and gas operator in its Europe CIS region. [Read more] Source: OilVo...

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OOCL Signs for Six 13,000-TEU Vessels with Samsung

OOCL signed a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries today for the construction of six 13,000-TEU vessels. This marks the first newbuilding order OOCL has ever placed for mega container vessels of this size.  The new collection of the 13,000-TEU vessels further...

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Shell announces first gas flows from offshore into the Pearl GTL plant in Qatar

Qatar Petroleum and Shell today announced the first flow of dedicated offshore gas into the Pearl GTL plant located in Ras Laffan Industrial City in the State of Qatar. [Read more] Source: Your Oil and Gas N...

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Marine business is on track to create new jobs

ONE of the world's biggest marine insurance firms believes it is on track to increase its market share further and create jobs after extending its offices on Newcastle Quayside. [Read More] Source: nebusin...

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Dry bulk market rises, capesizes gain but remain low-earners

The dry bulk market posted modest gains on Wednesday, with the Baltic Dry Index rising to 1,565 points, up by 1.43 percent on the day, led by gains of 3.12 percent in the Capesize market. It was the second day of gains for the market, on the aftermath of the devastation...

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ABS Says The Time Is Now for Floating LNG Concept

ABS Vice President of Global Gas William J. Sember said the classification society is in advanced stages of design review for a number of Floating LNG (FLNG) concepts, as this technology moves ever closer to reality. Speaking at the Gastech 2011 conference, where...

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Manta Denizclik Orders Three Bulkers

Turkish shipowner Manta Denizcilik has ordered three bulkers from two South Korean shipyards, Samho Shipbuilding and Sungdong Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. [Read More] Source: Ship-technol...

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Wife of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to christen Pascagoula-built ship

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Joyce Rumsfeld, ship sponsor and wife of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, will be in town this week to christen a ship that's meant to honor those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon. [Read More] Source:...

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Conversion and repair of the crane-pipe laying vessel SEMINOLE

March 21, 2011 - Viktor Lenac has completed the conversion and repair of the crane-pipe laying vessel “Seminole“, owned by Italy’s Subsea Oil Services (part of Micoperi Srl from Ravenna). The shipyard built and outfitted a complete new superstructure weighing...

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Post-quake, shipbuilders ready for LNG orders

Renewed concerns about atomic power triggered by an earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan may spur orders for liquefied-natural gas tankers already in short supply, according to Mirae Asset Securities Co. [Read More] Source: Shipping Onl...

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Eastern delivers two 292' DP-2 PSVs to Aries Marine

Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., has delivered the second of two 292' Tiger Shark-class platform-supply vessels to Lafayette, La.,-based Aries Marine Corp. The PSV was delivered in time for Aries Marine’s 30th anniversary on Feb. 11. The first PSV,...

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Bulk Carrier Stenia Colossus Delivered

Tokyo, March 16, 2011 — Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. today delivered theStenia Colossus bulk carrier for “K” Line Pte Ltd at its Sakaide Works. This 197-meter-long vessel (Kawasaki hull No. 1677) is the fifth state-of-the-art bulk carrier with a capacity of...

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Thai ship-owner re-sells three ABG ships on delivery delay

The three ships were part of the 18 ordered by Bangkok-based Precious Shipping at ABG at a total cost of $518 million (Rs2,331 crore) with deliveries starting from March 2010 and running through to December 2013 [Read More] Source: livem...

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MULTIPURPOSE DECK CARGO VESSEL TO STX FINLAND'S TURKU SHIPYARD

On 22 March 2011, STX Finland Oy and Gaiamare Ltd signed a contract for the construction of an innovative and versatile multipurpose deck cargo vessel. The ship will be delivered during spring 2012 and has a length of 105 metres and a width of 19 metres. The environmentally...

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Wilh. Wilhelmsen Group Launches New Cargo Vessel Class

The Wilh. Wilhelmsen group has launched its 150th anniversary vessel, MV Tønsberg, into operation. The Mark V class is the most sophisticated vessel ever built in the roll-on roll-off segment. “We expect that Mark V will strengthen our position as the global market...

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