Technip and Subsea 7 announced today that their Australian entities, Technip Oceania Pty Ltd and Subsea 7 Australia Pty Ltd, have been awarded a subsea EPIC installation contract by BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty Ltd for the Stybarrow Development Project. Located in approximately 800 m of water off the
A state research vessel accidentally killed a humpback whale in Prince William Sound. Officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game say the whale became entangled in a net being used in herring research and drowned.
The Coast Guard has responded to a disabled 65-foot fishing boat with four to five crew members on board that apparently had been adrift for several days. The fishing vessel was about 80 miles east of O’ahu this morning.
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MARITIME AND COASTGUARD AGENCY News Release (Press Notice No: 410_06) issued by The Government News Network on 14 November 2006 This Wednesday at 0930 the MCA will present amendments to the Large Yacht Code at the first Global Super yacht Forum at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition Centre.
A shipwrecked first-century vessel carrying delicacies to the richest palates of the Roman Empire has proved a dazzling find, with nearly 2,000-year-old fish bones still nestling inside clay jars, archeologists said yesterday.
India’s booming economy and its potential continue to attract big-ticket business groups. The latest one to drop anchor on the Indian shores is Germany-based Peter Dohle group, one of the world’s largest privately held shipowners. The group owns about 100 vessels and controls another 240 ships. It i
A production sharing agreement (PSA) has been signed for block 15/06 off Angola, giving Statoil a 5% interest in the deepwater block. The PSA was signed by Statoil and Angolan national oil company Sonangol, the latter being the 15/06 concessionare. Angola is a key country to Statoil and the group ha
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In the first week of November 2006 Damen Shipyards Bergum handed over the new building dry cargo vessel ‘Blue Bay’ to its owners Blue Bay GmbH & Co. KG of Oldenburg Germany. The vessel, the first vessel in a series of 4 units, will be managed by Otto A. M
Four vessels including FPSO, ice class oil tanker, LNG vessel, and large container vessel constructed by Samsung Heavy Industries(SHI) were honored of being selected as the Best Vessels of 2006 simultaneously by Maritime Reporter, Marine Log and Naval Architect, the top three magazines specializing
A total of 4 next generation welding robots named
VT Group plc, the support services and shipbuilding company, today announces its interim results for the half year ended 30 September 2006. These results are prepared under International Financial Reporting Standards.
Boustead Naval Shipyard (BN Shipyard), formerly known as PSC Naval Dockyard Sdn Bhd, is confident of delivering the remaining four new generation patrol vessels (NGPVs) to the Royal Malaysian Navy within 36 months.
