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  • RSI hired for seismic reservoir characterization

    21 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Rock Solid Images (RSI) has been chosen to provide rock-physics driven inversion and interpretation services to a Latin-American NOC over one of their northern Caribbean offshore assets. The company says the contract has a value in excess of $2 million. The work will start immediately and will complete in the first half of 2015. Stated […]

  • Polarcus hired for W. Africa survey

    1 July 2014

    Polarcus Limited has received a letter of intent for a seismic survey in West Africa. The UAE-based seismic survey specialist today said that the contract would be for a 3D marine seismic acquisition project for an undisclosed client offshore West Africa. The project, subject to the execution of a service contract, is expected to run […]

  • OGX Files Judicial Recovery Request

    31 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Eike Batista’s OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A  announces that given its adverse financial situation and accumulated losses, as well as the recent due and forthcoming interest payments of a great part of its debt, urgently filed, today, along with its subsidiaries OGX Petróleo e Gás S.A., OGX International GmbH and OGX Austria GmbH, a […]

  • Petrobras Files DoC for Carioca Field

    20 December 2013

    BG Group today confirms that its partner, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) – the operator of block BM-S-9 in the pre-salt Santos Basin – has submitted a Declaration of Commerciality (DoC) to the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), for the oil and gas accumulations in the Carioca area, offshore Brazil. As […]

  • Swiber hires Harkand for Mexico work

    1 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Harkand has secured a $5 million contract in Mexico to perform saturation diving services in support of an offshore pipeline project for offshore construction company Swiber  Offshore Mexico S.A de C.V. The global subsea inspection, repair, maintenance, and light construction company has recently finalised a joint venture with Arena Servicios de Mexico, a local Mexican company […]

  • Total hires AHTS Skandi Pacific

    10 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    DOF ASA, an international group of companies which owns and operates a fleet of offshore/subsea vessels, has been awarded a contract with Total Austral in Argentina for the vessel Skandi Pacific. According to DOF, the contract has a duration of 9 months plus three one-month options. The start up of the contract is expected in early September. […]

  • Bergen Group hires new CFO

    24 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Bergen Group ASA has appointed Nils Ingemund Hoff as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective from July 1, 2015 and until further notice.  Hoff replaces Henning Nordgulen who, as from August 1, 2015, takes up a new position as CFO in Skandiabanken Norway. According to Bergen Group, Nils Ingemund Hoff has broad experience from various leading positions from […]

  • Mubadala Hires Atwood Orca Rig

    22 January 2013

    Atwood Oceanics, Inc., a Houston-based drilling contractor, announced today that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a drilling services contract for the Atwood Orca by Mubadala Petroleum. The Atwood Orca, currently under construction at PPL Shipyard PTE LTD (“PPL”) in Singapore, will have a rated water depth of 400 feet, 1.5 million pound hook […]

  • Oldendorff, Phaethon Hire Diana’s Bulkers

    25 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    Athens-based dry bulk vessel owner Diana Shipping has entered into new time charter contracts for two of its ships.

  • Hudson Shipping Hires Diana’s Panamax

    15 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Diana Shipping inks a time charter contract for one of its Panamax dry bulk vessels, the M/V Thetis.

  • Pan Ocean Files to Exit Rehabilitation

    21 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    South Korean bulk shipping company Pan Ocean Co., Ltd. has filed an application for completion of its rehabilitation procedure to Seoul Central District Court. The application comes on the back of the completion of the company’s restructuring process which saw repayment of the claims of creditors and other interested parties, along with the merger with Harim Group & […]

  • Thorco Shipping Buys Five Tweendeckers

    27 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Copenhagen-based shipping company Thorco Shipping has acquired five tweendeckers to replace some of the older tonnage in its fleet. Thorco will later this year replace four green type vessels which have turned 15 and 16 years with the new vessels, the first ones being scheduled for delivery mid-December. The five vessels, from 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively, all in the 15,000 – 20,000 DWAT range, will form the new […]

  • Shell Hires China VLCC’s Supertanker

    1 February 2016
    Business & Finance

    Shanghai-listed China Merchants Energy Shipping (CMES) said that its subsidiary China VLCC signed a charter deal with the Netherlands-based Royal Dutch Shell. The charter deal relates to a supertanker (VLCC) that has been hired for a period of three years. As disclosed by CMES, the value of the deal is set at RMB 262 million […]

  • SwissMarine Hires Diana Shipping’s Capesize

    6 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Diana Shipping agreed a charter contract for Capesize vessel P. S. Palios with SwissMarine Services.

  • Koch Hires Diana Shipping’s Capesize

    23 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Diana Shipping signs time charter contract for one of its Capesize bulkers with Singapore’s Koch Shipping.

  • Meriaura Inks Charters for Five Ships

    28 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Finnish shipping company Meriaura has signed new time charter-in agreements covering five vessels.

  • Taizhou Sanfu Adds Five BCs

    18 November 2013

    Taizhou Sanfu Ship Engineering Co., Ltd., a robust large-scale shipbuilding company located in Jiangsu Province, has entered into a newbuild contract with Fujian Guohang Ocean Shipping (Group) Co., Ltd. for the construction of five 64,000 DWT bulk carriers. The vessels will be 199.90m long (LOA), 32.26m in moulded breadth, 18.50m in moulded depth and classed […]

  • COSCO Orders Five Boxships at Changxing

    28 January 2014

    COSCO Asset Management, a Hong Kong-based subsidiary of China COSCO Holdings Company Ltd, signed today a deal with China Shipbuilding Trading and Changxing Shipbuilding for the construction of five 9,400 TEU container vessels. Each vessel is priced at $86,900,00, bringing the total value of the purchase to $434,500,000. Delivery of the vessels is expected to start […]

  • Sterling Shipyard Fined for Safety Violations

    16 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    U.S. barge builder Sterling Shipyard LP was cited for 16 serious, repeat and failure-to-abate violations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for continuing to expose workers to safety hazards, including dangerous machinery, high noise levels without appropriate hearing protection and falls from heights above 6 feet, OSHA said.   […]

  • Five Ships Named at the Same Time

    15 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Philippines-based HHIC-Phil’s Subic Shipyard made history in the world’s shipbuilding industry by holding a naming ceremony for five vessels at the same time.   The world record was achieved first by Hyundai Heavy Industries, which named five vessels at the same time in March. However for HHIC-Phil’s Subic Shipyard, the simultaneous naming of five […]

  • Japan Holds Firm on Whaling Programme

    22 September 2014

    Japan is not backing down from its decision to pursue whaling despite the non-binding decision of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to limit Japanese ‘scientific whaling’ programme. Japan described the resolution as “regrettable”, but said it would proceed with a new round of culls in the Southern Ocean next year. The resolution to curb Japan’s controversial “research programme” […]

  • Court fines fish crews £150,000

    10 January 2007

    A group of Kilkeel fishermen who pleaded guilty to landing illegal fish have been given fines totalling almost £150,000 at Liverpool Crown Court. The court was told the men cheated the system of £400,000 by falsely claiming they had caught non-quota fish such as conger eel and gurnard.

  • Gujarat firm bags Princess tender

    22 October 2006

    The Goa government has awarded the work of removal of the River Princess vessel, grounded off Candolim since June 2000, to a company whose operations are based in Gujarat. The beleaguered ship is to be removed within six months from now. The agreement with M/s Jaisu Shipping was signed on behalf of Goa government by […]

  • Fish firms call for ferry inquiry

    26 February 2007

    Scottish fish processors are calling for a public inquiry after ferry services from Shetland were cancelled for most of last week.

  • UK Prompt Gas Prices Firm

    2 December 2011

    UK prompt gas prices on Friday were slightly higher than the previous day after an a shutdown of a gas processing plant cut Norwegian …   (reuters) [mappress] Source: reuters, December 2, 2011; Image: uk national grid