Operator Statoil and partner Sonatrach have completed and tested exploration well number two in the Hassi Mouina licence, in the Sahara Desert in Algeria.
A frame contract for work at Norway’s Kårstø gas processing complex and on the two Draupner riser platforms has been placed with the D&F Group by Statoil on behalf of Gassco. The NOK 640 million contract runs for five years from 2007 to 2011 and covers replacement of insulation and surface treatment
A new Indian Navy ship — the INS Jalashwa — will be commissioned Friday at Naval Station Norfolk. The Jalashwa was formerly the USS Trenton, an amphibious transport dock ship.
A fisherman fell off his boat fourteen miles from the Brevard County Coast, and was left floating in the water for hours, without a life vest Wednesday. Someone on board a passing casino cruise ship spotted him and the crew on board managed to bring him in alive. Olin Kennedy said he is not going [&
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had signed a decree to merge two leading tanker companies, Sovkomflot and Novoship, in a bid to raise the shipping sector’s international competitiveness.
4Yacht, Inc, a professional yacht brokerage firm, with offices around the world, recently consummated the successful sale of the megayacht, Mustang Sally, a 157’ 2005 Trinity Motoryacht.
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Quonset Development Corporation has given its preliminary approval to a 43-acre megayacht construction and repair facility proposed by Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Island Global Yachting.
Transocean Inc. (NYSE:RIG) today announced that a subsidiary of BP PLC (NYSE:BP) has awarded a subsidiary of Transocean a drilling contract for an enhanced Enterprise-class design newbuild drillship with modified specifications for expected operations offshore Angola for which BP is the operator. Th
Rescue teams trying to find a skipper missing from his tug boat have called off the search for the night. The man has not been seen since Wednesday night and it is believed he may have fallen overboard from the tug, moored on the River Crouch, Essex.
VERMILION, Ohio – The wreckage of a steamship that sank in 1850 after its boilers exploded has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Erie. Thomas Kowalczk, an amateur shipwreck prospector, used sonar on his boat to discover the General Anthony Wayne in 50 feet of water, about 12 kilometres north of
The stranded bulk carrier Pasha Bulker is ‘standing up well’ off a Newcastle beach, after a major storm forecast to hit the NSW coast overnight moved out to sea. ‘It wasn’t as bad as what we expected,’ Newcastle Port Corporation spokesman Keith Powell said.
The America’s Cup Match is about to begin. After more than two months of racing this year, Emirates Team New Zealand has won the Louis Vuitton Cup, and will now face off against the Defender, Alinghi, for the America’s Cup.
Aker Kvaerner has signed a contract for delivery of equipment and modifications to Aker Floating Production’s SMART 1 Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel. This new contract is an amendment to a contract awarded in November 2006 for both SMART 1 and 2 vessels.
Vietnamese largest shipbuilder, the state-run Vinashin, delivered Tuesday two 53,000 ton container ships to the UK’s Graig Investment. The 190m-long vessels were built by two Vinashin subsidiaries – Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Company and Ha Long Shipbuilding Company.
