The Water Technologies division of Siemens’s Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Group was selected by Petrobras to provide a produced water treatment system to its P-53 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit, located off the coast of Brazil. The produced water treatment system w
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has made a foray into the dredging business by acquiring a majority stake in International Seaport Dredging, which is Belgian Dredging International NV’s Indian arm. According to an official release issued by L&T to the BSE today, the company has infused equity to acquire a 61%
Federal officials asked a judge Tuesday to sign off on their agreement with General Electric Co. to dredge PCBs from the Hudson River, and rejected criticism that the deal could allow the company to avoid doing most of the cleanup. In the accord, first announced in October, GE pledged to perform the
The Coast Guard began searching Tuesday for a 21-year-old man reported missing from a cruise ship that had left Florida for the Bahamas. The man was reported missing about 11 a.m. Monday when his friends realized he had not slept in the cabin they shared, Royal Caribbean International spokesman Mich
Workers successfully moored the decommissioned aircraft carrier Oriskany on Tuesday about 24 miles south of Pensacola in preparation for the ship’s long-awaited scuttling today, a Navy spokeswoman said. Crews working for contractor Resolve Marine Group spent most of the day dropping four immense moo
The French warship Clemenceau, once the pride of France’s navy, is back in its home port of Brest, five months after heading to India to be scrapped. The French government was forced to recall the aircraft carrier because Indian workers refused to deal with the hazardous asbestos in its hulk. The is
A KEY player in a failed attempt to reshape the UK’s naval shipyards yesterday said it still harboured hopes of leading a restructuring of the industry. VT Group, the owner of the Portsmouth dockyard, lined up alongside BAE Systems on a
Overnight ABN AMRO ONE inched away from everyone except the Pirates of the Caribbean who, by the 0400GMT managed to take 16 miles off the leader. But that all stopped by the 1000GMT poll and in fact they went backwards, losing 27 miles in the last six hours. At the back of the fleet things […
VT Group is pressing ahead with plans to merge its warship building activities with those of BAE Systems after the failure of the two companies to pull off a takeover of the rival naval business Babcock. Paul Lester, VT’s chief executive, denied the collapse of the Babcock bid had put the company on
Those seeking electrical and instrumentation systems in the floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) segment may benefit from an alliance between Emerson Process Management and W
St. Petersburg’s Severnaya Verf shipyard Tuesday launched a new surface ship for the Russian navy. The Steregushchy corvette is the first in the Project 20380 series designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and being built at the shipyard. Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Masorin said at th
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Reviving the name of Evergreen’s very first full containership, Chang Kuo-Cheng (K C Chang), Evergreen Group’s Vice Group Chairman, launched the 7024 TEU Ever Spring in Kobe, Japan, on 17 May, She is due for delivery in August 2006 and is scheduled to enter service on the WAE pendulum service linkin
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Deepwater West, Ltd. (Esso), has drilled an oil discovery in Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 214, approximately 70 miles (113 kilometers) offshore Nigeria. The Uge-1 discovery well was drill
