SINGAPORE : Singapore’s marine and offshore industry is poised to turn another record performance this year. The country’s two largest shipyard groups – Keppel Offshore and Marine and SembCorp Marine – have secured S$3.3 billion worth of contracts in the first three months of this year alone.
MODEC announced on March 30 that the company started production in the Mutineer-Exeter field offshore Australia on March 29. The company constructed a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for Santos, a major Australian petroleum company.
Prosafe has been awarded a 30-day contract extension effective July 6, 2005 from SNEPCO (Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Company) for the use of Safe Caledonia for DP hook-up/construction support to the FPSO Bonga in Nigeria.
Coast Guard and Homeland Security officials mustered in Pascagoula, Miss., on March 29 for the official keel-laying ceremony for the Coast Guard
Santos Ltd., Adelaide, has begun production from the Mutineer-Exeter oil fields off northwestern Australia, 150 km north of Dampier. The fields’ initial output is expected to be 70,000-90,000 b/d of oil with dual electric submersible pumps (OGJ Online, Feb. 17, 2005). Production from seven wells wil
A California woman and her son have sued cruise operator Holland America Line for unspecified damages after getting sick on a cruise where they said toilets overflowed and crew members were seen with prostitutes at ports of call. Bernice Oltman, 81, and her son, Jack Oltman.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of discount airline EasyJet Plc, invested $20 million in a new low- cost cruise liner, EasyCruise.com, that will sail in the Mediterranean. EasyCruise.com will make its inaugural trip May 6 with a 170- passenger ship out of Nice and will take in ports including St.
Pirates attacked a Japanese-owned bulk carrier in the Malacca Strait and robbed the ship of its cash before escaping in a boat, a maritime official said. “The attack happened early Friday. They boarded the ship and robbed the safe,” Noel Choong, head of the Piracy Reporting Center of the Internation
Qatar will spend $15 billion in the next five years to add 70 vessels to its fleet of tankers to export more liquefied natural gas (LNG), Oil Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah said on Wednesday. Qatar, home to the world
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has recommended changes to procedures after a shipping incident on the Great Barrier Reef, in far north Queensland, last year. The Panamanian-registered bulk carrier Harmonic Progress was on its way from Japan to load coal at the Hay Point terminal near
A boat that has cruised the Erie Canal, the Finger Lakes and Chesapeake Bay is returning to the Genesee River at Rochester for the first time in six years. The Corn Hill Navigation Company plans to launch the 104-passenger “Mary Jemison” in May. The cruise boat will be based at the Corn Hill docks i
The captain of a cargo ship that broke apart in December and created Alaska’s worst oil spill since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster has pleaded guilty of lying to federal investigators. Kailash Bhushan Singh entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, where Judge Ralph Beistline approved a
MACKINAW CITY – A long-awaited marine construction project in Mackinaw City will soon begin when barges arrive to start the first phase of a $9.5 million new state harbor of refuge. The initial work will include the installation of two breakwaters outside the area known as the State Dock, where car
Despite the issuance of a new state permit allowing landowners along the lower Kilchis River to alleviate flooding in their pastures, it was still unclear this week when or if the dredging project will be able to proceed. Landowners have been trying to clear out a 2,500-foot section of the Kilchis R
