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  • Wallenius Wilhelmsen turns to ExxonMobil for biofuel supply

    21 June 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy

    Oslo-listed shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen has signed its first biofuel contract with the U.S. energy major ExxonMobil as a step towards reducing emissions and promoting eco-friendly practices. Under the contract, ExxonMobil will deliver sustainable biofuel within the second half of this year, with the first delivery scheduled for July. According to Wallenius Wilhelmsen, this agreement […]

  • UK Wind Energy Hits New Record High

    6 November 2014
    Authorities & Government

    New figures from the National Grid for October show that wind power smashed more energy generation records, contributing even more to the UK’s clean electricity mix. Wind energy hit a record high providing a 24% daily share of the UK’s electricity needs on the 20th October, beating the previous record of 22% set in August. […]

  • Danish-Flagged Merchant Fleet Bigger than Ever

    4 December 2014

    The Danish-flagged merchant fleet has grown 13 per cent since the beginning of 2014 measured in GT and is now bigger than ever with 13.8 mill GT and 15.9 mill TDW distributed across 647 vessels, according to Danish Shipping Statistics for November 2014. Danish Shipowners’ Association said that the growth has occurred despite a weakening […]

  • Damen to Repair Two KNOT’s Shuttle Tankers

    31 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) received a booking for the dry-docking and repairs of two shuttle tankers managed by Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers A/S. The 88,109 GRT sister vessels Karen Knutsen and Sallie Knutsen expect to arrive end February and Middle of March respectively. Damen Brest’s Managing Director Jos Goris said: “We are very pleased with […]

  • BP boosts gas production from Mediterranean Sea as it fires up next chapter of giant project

    17 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    BP has brought online the second development phase of a field at the West Nile Delta (WND) concession in the Mediterranean within the Egyptian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

  • IHC Beaver Dredgers opens prefabrication department

    11 May 2009

    IHC Beaver Dredgers, part of the IHC Merwede Group, has set up a new department to meet demand for prefabricated materials. The department has been in operation since January 2009 in Sliedrecht in The Netherlands and can prefabricate about 400 tons of parts a year. The prefabricated materials can be broken down into two categories: […]

  • VOR: Unlucky for some

    3 May 2006

    ABN AMRO TWO skipper Sebastien Josse has confirmed his faith in Lucas Brun by keeping the Brazilian in his crew for the next two legs despite the return to fitness of Gerd Jan Poortman. Poortman was widely tipped to reclaim his place onboard after doctors ruled his broken back, sustained on leg three, had repaired […]

  • China: CIC Changxing Shipyard Completes Repair Works for CSCL Long Beach

    11 July 2012

    On 21st June, 2012, CIC Changxing Shipyard successfully completed the repair project of MV CSCL Long Beach.The subject vessel is a container vessel which belongs to one of Canadian companies. The main repair works covered E/R fans, motors, M/E fuel pump and windlass. With the short repair period plus the tight docking schedule, the shipyard […]

  • Dynagas LNG Partners rakes in $53 million from offering

    25 October 2018

    Dynagas LNG Partners, a limited partnership formed by the Greek shipowner Dynagas, secured $53 million after the closure of its previously announced offering. Dynagas LNG said in a statement on Wednesday it has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 330,000 Series B Preferred Units on the same terms and […]

  • Transocean drillships rake in $1.04 bln thanks to new gigs

    8 December 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has won new long-term contracts for two of its ultra-deepwater drillships, adding around $1.04 billion to its backlog.

  • PSA sheds light on lifeboat incident on Maersk Giant jack-up

    15 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    The investigation by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) into the incident on the jack-up rig Mærsk Giant, when a lifeboat was unintentionally launched to the sea, has now been completed. Several breaches of the regulations were identified.  The rig was positioned on the Yme field in the southern North Sea. At the time of the […]

  • Danish Based Fyns Kran Udstyr Develops New Hydraulic Lifting Yoke

    9 February 2012

    A newly developed hydraulic lifting yoke from Danish based Fyns Kran Udstyr has been tested in the world’s largest offshore wind turbine park, London Array. The new way of handling offshore wind turbine foundations is much faster, cheaper and more secure. It no longer needs to take an hour to get ready to lift the […]

  • Ophir finds some oil offshore Thailand

    20 November 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Ophir Energy has wrapped up drilling operations at the G4/50-11 wildcat exploration in the South Western Graben of the Gulf of Thailand. While encountering oil, Ophir said the quantity was not enough to be commercial. The well was the second in Ophir’s 2015 exploration drilling program in the G4/50 licence and targeted the Parichat Southwest […]

  • USA: Dredging of Tittabawassee River Begins Next Year

    14 December 2011

    Cleanup work on a three-mile stretch of the Tittabawassee River along the Dow Chemical Co. plant in Midland is scheduled to …   By Lindsay Knake (mlive) [mappress] Source: mlive, December 14, 2011;

  • IADC: Webinar on Panama Canal Expansion

    15 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) is preparing a webinar about the Panama Canal Expansion Program, in which Karen Smits will explain how project participants deal with the cultural complexity in their everyday life. Karen Smits, PhD, is author of the book Cross Culture Work: Practices of Collaboration in the Panama Canal Expansion Program. As […]

  • China: VLCC Xin Han Yang Leaves CIC Changxing Shipyard

    27 August 2012

    CIC Changxing Shipyard, on August 16th 2012, completed the repair works of VLCC Xin Han Yang and redelivered the vessel to its owners. The main work scope for this very large crude carrier included cargo valve repair on deck, starboard windlass shaft repair and brake lining replacement, sewage tank & expansion tank fabrication in E/R, welding seam […]

  • Clipper Takes Delivery of Its New Multi-purpose Vessel in China

    22 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Clipper has taken delivery of the newbuilding Clipper New York. The vessel is the last in a series of four 17,000 dwt, multi-purpose vessels ordered from Tongfang Shipyard, China. The delivery of the vessel is in line with Clipper Projects’ strategic goal to renew the fleet. On her maiden voyage the vessel will load project […]

  • EPA Develops Tittabawassee River Cleanup Plan (USA)

    19 July 2011

    The Environmental Protection Agency is developing a plan to clean up the Tittabawassee River adjacent to the Dow Chemical Co.’s Midland … By Lindsay Knake (mlive) [mappress] Source: mlive, July 19, 2011;

  • Port of Vancouver Handles Less Cargo in 1H

    22 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Canadian Port of Vancouver has seen a decrease in traffic during the first half of 2016 mostly attributed to a softened global economy, the weakened Canadian dollar, and some containerized cargo shifting back to United States ports following an extended labour disruption on the U.S. west coast last year. Total cargo for the half-year period […]

  • Dredging International to construct artificial island at Ras al Khaimah ( UAE)

    5 February 2007

    Dredging International has signed a contract with private stock company Rakeen Development for the reclamation of an artificial island off Ras al Khaimah, the northernmost emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The € 50 million contract adds to a string of projects which Dredging International is currently executing in the Gulf area. The first […]

  • Scientists Recover Core Samples from Chicxulub Impact Crater

    12 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    A team of international scientists drilled into the site of the asteroid impact, known as the Chicxulub impact crater, which occurred 66 million years ago. The crater is buried several hundred meters below the surface in the Yucatán region of México. Until that time, dinosaurs and marine reptiles dominated the world, but the series of catastrophic […]

  • CARIS Completes Training Courses with NOAA

    12 June 2015

    CARIS trainers recently completed a round of pre-season training courses with NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey in preparation for new challenges and survey objectives in the coming field season. Advanced training courses were led by Karen Hart, Burns Foster and Tami Beduhn at the Pacific and Atlantic Hydrographic Branches in Seattle, WA and Norfolk, VA. Josh […]

  • QatarEnergy’s LNG carrier fleet becomes one vessel richer

    19 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    A joint venture encompassing Japanese shipping companies NYK and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line), Malaysia’s energy-related maritime services provider MISC, and China LNG Shipping (Holdings) Limited (CLNG) has taken delivery of a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier built for QatarEnergy, as part of the Qatari state-owned energy giant’s massive LNG shipbuilding expansion quest.

  • USA: Petrobras Plans to Replace Risers of its Cascade Chinook Project in GoM

    13 October 2011
    Equipment

    Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer, plans to replace the faulty risers in its Cascade Chinook deepwater project… Reported by: Eduard Gismatullin and Karen Eeuwens (Bloomberg) [mappress] Source: Bloomberg, October 13, 2011;

  • Port lease promises jobs, revenue

    26 April 2005

    After months of negotiation, port leaders Monday approved a deal that promises more than 80 jobs, revenues for the cash-poor public docks and the awakening of an idle shipyard on Pelican Island. The Wharves Board of Trustees approved a lease agreement with Port Arthur-based Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corp. by 6-0 vote with trustee William […]