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  • NOAA: Ocean Acidity Dissolves Snail Shells Off U.S. West Coast

    1 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    NOAA has led a research team that found the first evidence that acidity of continental shelf waters off the West Coast is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming marine snails, called pteropods, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel and herring. Researchers estimate that the percentage of pteropods in this region with dissolving shells due […]

  • Tethys Offers Answers to Questions about Offshore Renewables

    22 May 2014
    Environment, Research & Development

    Tethys, a robust online resource available for free to anyone interested in ocean energy and offshore wind resources, focuses on the environmental effects of energy projects that are proposed, underway or completed in the ocean and above it. The database includes hundreds of scientific papers, technical reports, regulatory applications on file with federal and international […]

  • Governor wants permanent drilling ban offshore California

    14 December 2016

    California’s governor Edmund G. Brown is calling for the president Obama to use his powers and permanently ban oil exploration offshore California. The governor has asked the president to use the authority “under Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently withdraw federal waters off the coast of California from new offshore […]

  • Steamship Authority Selects EBDG to Design New Ferry

    4 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), a naval architecture and marine engineering firm, has been awarded a multiple-phase project to design a new freight and passenger ferry for the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority (SSA). “We were looking to replace our oldest vessel, the M/V GOVERNOR, with a more versatile vessel by […]

  • Chinese Banks- New Source of Capital for Shipping?

    21 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    Chinese banks seem to be the emerging power when it comes to securing capital for the shipping industry. The market has been dominated by European lenders which are starting to turn to a more localized strategy as they work to trim down their exposure to bad shipping loans. This is in particular seen in Germany, […]

  • Canada: TSC Group Secures USD 29.2 Million Contract for Super M2 Jack-up Rig Package

    12 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    TSC Group Holdings Limited secures a US$ 29.2 million contract for a Super M2 jack-up rig (300 ft) package from CIMC Raffles Shipyard. The deal comes with an option for another similar Super M2 jack-up rig package by the end of this year. TSC Group will design, engineer and provide an integrated drilling rig package […]

  • Thermal Insulation Becomes Paramount for Deepwater Developments

    13 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Due to a continually rising demand for hydrocarbons, the exploration of offshore oil and gas has moved past shallow reservoirs to even greater depths. As such, deepwater subsea production systems must now go deeper and reach further than ever before in order to extract more oil and gas from harsher stores in new locations around […]

  • APPEA: Qld Gas Companies Signed 4017 Land Lease Agreements

    13 August 2013

    The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association’s (APPEA) latest industry data figures for the first quarter of 2013 show landholders have now signed 4017 land access agreements with Queensland-based natural gas companies since 2011, while contributions to regional community projects and organisations have topped $100 million. It is widely accepted that the gas industry’s growth […]

  • Committee to Advise Leaders on Integrating Ocean Observation Systems (USA)

    21 August 2012

    A new committee to advise federal leaders on integrating the nation’s ocean observing systems that collect and deliver ocean information will meet for the first time later this month in Washington. The meeting will be open to the public. The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) Federal Advisory Committee was created to evaluate scientific and […]

  • New CFO Appointed at Rialto (Australia)

    2 August 2013
    Business & Finance

    The Board of Rialto announces the appointment of Andrew Rose as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective 27 August 2013. Rose has extensive experience in the Oil & Gas industry having been CFO of both private and public E&P companies and prior to that enjoyed a successful career in Investment Banking. Andrew (aged […]

  • Oil prices dip on ongoing oversupply, economic headwinds

    25 July 2016

    By Henning Gloystein and Osamu Tsukimori SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices held near two-month lows on Monday amid worries that a global crude and refined product glut would weigh on markets for some time to come. International Brent crude oil futures <LCOc1> were trading at $45.51 per barrel at 0623 GMT, down 18 cents from […]

  • Sea Potential prepares DUO wave energy converter for testing

    3 November 2015
    Research & Development, Technology

    The Sea Potential team has been working closely with Fred Stern and the team at Iowa University in preparation for the 1:50 scale tank testing of its DUO WEC planned for December, 2015. The hull structures for the scaled model are complete and preparations for the integration of the PTO, sensors and data acquisition systems […]

  • IHC Merwede Sets Sight on Future Expansion (The Netherlands)

    15 November 2011
    Business & Finance

    A decision has been made to maintain the current shareholder structure at IHC Merwede. The IHC Merwede Supervisory Board – in addition to all of the current shareholders – is comfortable with the financial strength of the company for the next year. With the support of JP Morgan and Rabobank M&A, IHC Merwede has carried […]

  • Death Ship Captain Admits to Gun Running

    29 May 2015

    In the second day of the inquest hearing before the New South Wales Coroner Court, the captain of what has been dubbed as the Death ship confessed to taking a commission for selling guns to crew members while on board the Panama-flagged coal carrier Sage Sagittarius. Captain Venancio Salas also admitted of being involved in physical confrontations with one […]

  • G2 advances its net-zero LNG export project

    12 May 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    G2 Net-Zero LNG has moved forward with its liquefied natural gas export project in Louisiana with the execution of a letter of intent with NET Power.

  • Air Products Develops LNG Converter Mobile App, USA

    2 November 2012

    Air Products has developed its first public mobile app, which converts weight and volume measures for common industrial gases and liquefied natural gas (LNG). The new app enables users to quickly convert weight and volume measures for industrial gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, hydrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide, as well as LNG/methane. “Air Products […]

  • OPT Reports Results for Second Quarter of Fiscal 2012 (USA)

    11 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended October 31, 2011. “We ended the second quarter of fiscal 2012 with further progress on PowerBuoy deployments, and a number of business development initiatives to commercialize our technology are currently underway,” said Charles F. Dunleavy, Chief Executive Officer of OPT. “Given […]

  • China: VOS, Delta Develop New Daughter Craft RIB

    20 November 2012

    Two highly respected companies have combined their expertise to develop a new daughter craft RIB. The first of these companies is VOS (Vroon Offshore Services) – part of the Vroon conglomerate that was formed in Breskens over a century ago and has since grown into a major international shipping business that operates and manages a […]

  • Pacific Drilling files for Chapter 11 to eliminate $1.1 billion of debt

    2 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Pacific Drilling has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to eliminate $1.1 billion of bond debt amid significant disruption in the offshore drilling market.

  • Contracts worth $1.1B awarded as part of Shah Deniz Stage 2

    10 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Shah Deniz consortium, lead by BP, has awarded more contracts as part of its Shah Deniz 2 development program, offshore Azerbaijan.   The contract for the fabrication of the jackets for the two planned offshore platforms, pin piles and subsea structures has been awarded to the consortium consisting of BOS Shelf LLC, Saipem Contracting […]

  • UK: Trapoil Provides Romeo Well and Athena Acquisition Update

    27 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Trapoil, the independent oil and gas exploration and appraisal company focused on the UK Continental Shelf (“UKCS”) region of the North Sea, provides an operational update with regard to the Romeo well and the Athena acquisition. Romeo Well Operations are continuing on the Romeo (Licence P.1666, Block 30/11c) exploration prospect (“Romeo”) (Trapoil 12.5 per cent. […]

  • OSG nets $49.1 million loan

    25 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

     NYSE-listed tanker owner and operator Overseas Shipholding Group has closed a $49.1 million loan to finance a newbuild oil and chemical ATB barge. OSG’s subsidiaries, OSG 205 LLC and OSG Courageous II LLC, will use the loan to refinance the tug to which the barge is being paired, the OSG Courageous. The new 204,000 barrel U.S. Flag […]

  • Oceanographer Pisias Honored by US Navy and AGU

    10 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Dr. Nicklas Pisias has received the Maurice Ewing Medal, sponsored jointly by the U.S. Navy and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), for his work in the establishment of a new scientific field.  Pisias, a professor emeritus at Oregon State University, accepted the award at the AGU Fall Meeting in December 2018. Named after Dr. Maurice Ewing, […]

  • U.S. Navy Takes Delivery of PCU California Eight Months Earlier

    9 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Navy took delivery of PCU California (SSN 781) from Huntington Ingalls Industries – Newport News Shipbuilding (HII–NNS), Aug. 7, more than eight months earlier than the scheduled contract delivery date. “The quality and professionalism of our Navy/shipbuilding team is evident in California’s outstanding performance during its recent sea trials and early delivery,” said Program […]

  • De Gucht: Transatlantic Trade Growth Will Not Mean Lower Standards

    4 July 2014

    The European Union wants to expand its Transatlantic trade with the U.S. and is mulling the ways to do so.   The trading line is believed to have considerable growth potential for both economies. The framework to work on is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or the TTIP,  as proposed by Karel De Gucht, […]