InterManager members have called for more proactive methods to be developed in the protection of ships transiting pirate-infested trade… (Exim) [mappress] Source: Exim, September 16, 2011; Image: Napro
ADPC has celebrated the keel laying ceremony for two new 32 metre escort tugboats specially designed for marine services at the new Khalifa Port. The new escort tugboats will be manufactured by Grandweld, a UAE-based shipbuilding, ship repair and conversion specialist, which was chosen after a close
Noreq AS continues to expand. The increasing demand for Noreq’s products has resulted in a new company establishment, NOREQ FZE, a subsidiary with office in Dubai – the most important business and financial center in the Arab world. Noreq has been represented in UAE for several years by Mr. Chacko J
The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) announced on Monday, the 12th September, 2011 that it exercised the option to build 2 RoCon vessels with the builder Hyundai MIPO of South Korea. This is in line with its corporate strategic initiatives that call for expansion of the General Carg
Nordic Maritime Services announced the successful delivery of MT Amal on the 15th of June & MT Namsa on the 4th of August. The project is ongoing at SHINA shipyard with delivery of 11 IMO II purpose built chemical carriers whereof 5 ships has been delivered. National chemical carriers from Saudi Ara
Top representatives of GDF Suez E&P Nederland, Chevron E&P Netherlands and NAM, the joint venture of Shell and ExxonMobil, share their vision on the future of North Sea gas production during the Offshore Energy conference. The conference will take place on 11 and 12 October in Amsterdam and will run
Technip in consortium with NPCC(1), was awarded by ZADCO(2) an engineering, procurement and construction lump sum contract, worth a total of approximately $500 million (Technip part of the contract: 35%), for the Satah Full Field Development project. This field is located 200 kilometers northwest of
UK based Coastline Surveys Limited, were contracted by Calegeo, a trading division of Calecore Ltd, for a Alcatel Lucent cable burial assessment survey recently broke their own water depth record with their C-Pen40 seabed CPT system. Under the survey a total of 44 CPT’s were completed along the prop
Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV) has been providing 24/7 personnel access for Pearl 1 Platform – one of two platforms providing offshore gas to Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) project in Qatar – since the completion of sea trials in December 2010. Using the 20-metre Offshore Access System (OAS), mounted on t
Circle Oil Plc , the international oil and gas exploration, development and production company to announced today the following operational update on its activities in Block 52 in Oman. Block 52 The processing of the 5,026 line kilometres of marine 2D seismic, recorded from December 2010 to February
RAK Petroleum Public Company Limited, the oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced that following completion of due diligence and agreement on relative valuations, the Boards of Directors of DNO International ASA and RAK Petroleum PCL signed definitive documents on 3 September
National Iranian Offshore Oil Company (NIOOC) will sign a $5 billion contract with a consortium of Asian companies to develop ‘Farzad-B’ … Source: Tehran Times [mappress] Source:Tehran Times ,September 5, 2011;
Oman’s biggest private mining firm, Mawarid Mining Company, a subsidiary of MB Holdings Company LLC, plans to acquire a stake in Canadian mi… (omanobserver) [mappress] Source: Oman Observer, Sptember 05, 2011;
80% of the Tamar natural gas field pipeline has already been manufactured and is waiting at Israel Shipyards. The partners will begin … By Inbal Omer (Globes) [mappress] Source:Globes.il ,September 2, 2011;