Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Monday Indonesia wanted Thai fishing firms to form joint venture with local companies if they wanted to continue operating in Indonesian waters. Marty told reporters that the joint operation was a key step toward eradicating illegal fishing.
Rolls-Royce has received an order worth over $20m to supply diesel generator sets and thrusters to Houston-based offshore engineering and construction company J. Ray McDermott.
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) received four bids for the contract for the fourth dry excavation (PAC-4) as part of the waterway’s expansion programme. Following the receipt of the bids in December, the ACP will now analyse the technical and financial submissions and award the contract in the coming weeks.
Container carriers with reefer containers generate 27 per cent more emissions of greenhouse gases than specialised reefer carriers, according to a study carried out by the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (AERU) of Lincoln University in Christchurch, New Zealand, reports fruitnet.com.
Cyprus based shipowning companies Intership Navigation Co. Ltd. (ISN) and Athena Marine Co. Ltd. received the “GL Excellence – 5 Stars” certificate of classification society Germanischer Lloyd (GL). Capt. Eugen H. Adami, Managing Director of ISN/Athena, received the certificate and the trophy from GL’s COO and Executive Vice President Torsten Schramm in presence of more [...]
Marine survey and positioning expert IXEA has appointed a new Stavanger-based sales manager for its products and services. Bent Hansen was previously with Seatronics in Aberdeen, and will be sales manager for Ixea’s new offshore division based in Stavanger. He holds masters degree in computer science and has accumulated 17 years oil and gas industry [...]
Contracts & Tenders – July 14, 2008 MCJ Ref No: 644/E/31 Tender Ref No: 2008-173043 Project Stage: Tenders Invited Area: Overveen, Netherlands Project Period: 24 months from date of contract award Promoter: Provincie Noord-Holland & Gemeente Alkmaar & HH Hollands Noorderkwartier, Postbus 245, Beheer & Uitvoering, NL-2050 AE Overveen; Tel: 02 35 14 39 91; [...]
Plant provides reliable source of steam to refinery BP Alternative Energy today announced that it has acquired the Whiting Clean Energy facility, a 525 megawatt (MW) natural-gas fired combined-cycle cogeneration power plant located in Whiting, Indiana, USA. The plant was acquired for $210 million from NiSource Inc., a Fortune 500 company engaged in natural gas [...]
Dubai-based port operator DP World has reportedly secured approval to build a US$3 billion port and logistics park on the banks of the River Thames in southeast England. The London Gateway project, which DP World inherited following its acquisition of P&O in 2006, involves the development of an 1,800 acre form oil refinery in Essex [...]
Teekay has purchased two unique liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers that, in future, may help its customers develop smaller gas fields and open up markets that were previously inaccessible.
