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A second ship of the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) left the naval base here yesterday to serve as the auxiliary vessel for the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) operating in the Gulf of Aden.

As energy demand is rising again, the year 2011 marks a turning point in the oil & gas industry with increased investments in the entire value chain. Offshore Energy in Amsterdam (11 & 12 October 2011), clearly

As a first of an undisclosed number of vessels to come, a Shanghai shipyard delivered a bulk grains carrier to Cuban officials. The 35,000-ton Abdala was built under an agreement between Chinese state company China National Machinery Import

Richardson Devine Marine announces that RDM Hull 055 is a new generation 35 metre utility workboat for the Offshore Unlimited Group. RDM’s relationship with the offshore Unlimited Group started in 2008 with Unlimited

Fujian Southeast Shipyard delivered one more working vessel a production oil tanker. This 3.800DWT vessel named Sikinos was made for the Greek owner and was successfully delivered on 13 August.

Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV) announces the successful completion of the world’s first vessel-to-FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) personnel transfers, using a heave-compensated marine walk-to-work system.

GDF SUEZ and International Power has signed two power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to secure the entire output from its two 99MW wind farms being constructed in Ontario, Canada.

Guinea is holding talks with China International Water & Electric (CWE) for the construction of the Kaleta dam in Guinea, to increase the power generation in the nation.

Duke Energy plans to construct the 200MW Los Vientos I wind power project in Texas, US, and sell the power generated from the plant to CPS Energy.

A&P TYNE is building on its success in a new business sector with the completion of yet another subsea structure for an offshore oil and gas field.

With defence ministry shipyards unable to meet the Indian Navy’s growing need for warships, New Delhi had no choice but to look to Russian shipyards. Now, with Britain looking to partner India to cut the UK’s warship building costs, one of India’s new private defence shipyards

European Union strategies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ships will not move freight away from trucks to waterborne transport as desired, but increase truck volumes, says the European Shippers Council (ESC).

Norway’s biggest bank, DnB NOR is in talks on lending between $3.5 billion and $4 billion in the second half of this year to finance orders for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessels, it said on Wednesday.

Polarcus Limited announces that the Company has signed a five year Bareboat Charter Party Agreement (BBCP) with OAO Sovcomflot (SCF) of Russia. Under the terms of the BBCP Sovcomflot will charter POLARCUS SELMA, inclusive of an 8 streamer

Bumi Armada Berhad’s joint venture company, Forbes Bumi Armada Offshore Limited (FBAOL), signed a seven year fixed term time charter (TC) with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONCC) for the provision of a Floating, Production,

Juliet Marine Systems, Inc. announced today that the US Navy/USPTO have removed Secrecy Orders previously applied to GHOST. For the first time, Juliet Marine is able to release photographs of GHOST, the first super-cavitating craft, to the public. GHOST

Hyundai Merchant Marine to launch new service to LLC Moby Dik container terminal

Nearly 23 public-private partnership (PPP) projects, entailing an estimated investment of Rs 16,743.92 crore and capacity addition of 231.63 million tonnes have

For the first time EGL has delivered an LNG (liquefied-natural-gas) cargo to Greece. The cargo was unloaded recently in two discharges at Greece’s

SBM Offshore N.V. announced that one of its Affiliates and Queiroz Galvao Oleo e Gas S.A. (QGOG), have received two Letters Of Intent (LOI), one from Guara BV and one from BM-S-9 Consortium, established by the companies Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras