The Norwegian continental shelf’s (NCS) smallest field, Glitne, continues to glitter. This summer, well number seven will be drilled, extending its life until 2009. Small fields are becoming ever more important for Statoil.
Aker and Aker Kvaerner have decided to start a pre-study of a pilot facility for CO2 capture at the power plant at Kårstø, Norway. The companies are doing this at their own initiative and at their own expense. Aker and Aker Kvaerner consider this a time-saving tactic for delivering effective solutio
Having taken twelve months to build, the 60’ IMOCA monohull Generali that Yann Elies will sail in the next Vendee Globe, has just been launched at the Multiplast yard in Vannes. While the yacht is the 8th monohull to be built by the yard, this is however the first prototype with a canting keel and [
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the consortium led by Hyundai Heavy Industries of Republic of Korea (“Hyundai Consortium”) have signed an agreement for the establishment of an LNG Joint Venture Shipping Company. The joint venture company has been incorporated in Nigeria under
The search for a fishing boat which sank in the North Sea with the loss of four crew in October is resuming. One body was found after the Meridian, based in Anstruther, Fife, was lost in heavy seas.
It isn’t only celebrities and business magnates who float around the world on mega yachts. Families and groups are chartering these luxury vessels as well, to hold meetings, celebrate a special occasion or to vacation in opulent surroundings.
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with the shipyard Alcock Ashdown Ltd. of Gujarat, India, for advanced subsea systems valued at approximately MNOK 350. The equipment will be installed on six new surveying vessels that India’s National Hydrographic Office has ordered from the shipyard.
Transas has equipped training sailing vessel ‘Danmark’ with its electronic charts system Navi-Sailor 3000 ECS. Now the full charts folio, working as a system product, is available to the young navigators. The previous charts system installed on board ‘Danmark’ provided only leisure-oriented function
Construction has had no effects on marine life The performance of the Egmond aan Zee Offshore Wind Farm, which has been in operation since the beginning of this year, has been excellent to date. Thanks in part to the stormy weather of the first three months of 2007, during which there has been a gre
A mechanical digger burst into flames as it unloaded cargo from a ship’s hold at Immingham docks. Firefighters were called to the bulk carrier Suchada Naree early on Thursday as the fire threatened to spread to the ship’s cargo of animal feed. A Humberside Fire Service spokeswoman said officers used
Poor fire training and a failure to carry out engine modifications have been highlighted in an accident report into a blaze on a cruise ship. The Calypso was off the coast of Beachy Head, East Sussex, with 708 passengers and staff on board when the fire broke out on 6 May last year.
A final letter from a passenger on the Titanic who described the liner as a “positive danger”, is to go up for auction. Alfred Rowe, 59, farmer and landowner in the US, wrote that the ship “is too big” in the letter home to his wife.
Canadian coastguards are trying to rescue the occupants of about 100 boats carrying seal hunters trapped by pack ice off the country’s eastern coast. Several of the boats are threatened with damage or sinking, and at least one crew had to abandon ship.
The search for a fishing boat which sank in the North Sea with the loss of four crew in October is set to resume. Just one body was found after the Meridian, based in Anstruther, Fife, was lost in heavy seas. An attempt to locate the Meridian began in November but was suspended in December […
