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Britain EV Leading Oil Industry, Said North Sea Drilling Moratorium Unnecessary
Britain's leading oil industry association argued Tuesday that it is unnecessary to impose a moratorium on new drilling in the North Sea until the Gulf of Mexico spill is fully investigated because British regulation is better, making a similar disaster there unlikely Malcolm Webb, the chief executive of Oil and Gas UK, told lawmakers other countries could learn from British regulation, which is l...

Chevron Participates In Three Blocks Deepwater Exploration In China
Chevron Corporation announced yesterday that its China subsidiary has received final approval to acquire operating interests in three exploration blocks in the South China Sea's Pearl River Mouth Basin Chevron has acquired a 100 percent interest in blocks 53-30 and 64-18, and a 59.18 percent interest in block 42-05, from Devon subsidiary Devon Energy China, Ltd. The blocks cover an exploratory acr...

UK Industry Declines All North Sea Drilling Ban
Britain's leading oil industry association says it is unnecessary to impose a moratorium on drilling in the North Sea until the Gulf of Mexico spill is fully investigated. Malcolm Webb, the chief executive of Oil and Gas UK, told lawmakers on Tuesday that differences between U.S. and British regulation of deepwater drilling means "there's no case for a moratorium." Webb says that other countries c...

SOCAR Raises Oil Coke Export Of More Than 9 Times
In January-June 2010 the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan exported 218,891 tons of oil coke in the amount of $6,374,000. The export has increased by 9.5 times and received revenues by 11 time over the same period of the last year Sources in the company said the export of oil coke is related to the increased volumes of secondary oil refining. “In this connection, the fuel oil production has dr...

MSC To Boost Prices In North America
Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will increase freight rates on its services between North America and Europe and the Mediterranean as of Oct...

Friends Mourn Sailor
(theday) As an avid sailor, Donald "Donzo" Wilkinson of Noank raced hard and had an infectious laugh. At 54, he had decades of experience on the water and had captained private yachts and sailboats. Source...

Goa Shipping News: Wrecks Still Stuck
(wsj) As Mumbai continues to clean up the mess left by a collision of two cargo ships a month ago, it should look southwards, down the country’s West coast for a good example of how not to do it. Source...

Crew Battle Winds Orkney Yacht Rescue Off Durness
(BBC) A lifeboat crew battled winds of force 5 to 7 to reach a yacht that had suffered engine failure three miles off Faraid Head, Durness. Source...

Yacht Nearly Hit Runaway Barge
(WSYR-TV)It's much quieter on the waters of Lake Ontario, after some strong winds forced a huge barge to break loose in the Oswego Harbor early Sunday morning. At one point, it came just a foot away from slamming into a $2 million yacht with two people on board. Source...

To Get Worlds First Hybrid Tug A Sister
uilder and operator of the worldâ??s first hybrid tugboat, Foss Maritime Co. will soon add another pioneering vessel to its Southern California fleet with the help of an air quality grant obtained by the Port of Long Beach.Read at World's first hybrid tugboat to get a sister...

Wrtsil Launches Groundbreaking Propulsion Condition Monitoring Service
W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade and Technical Press release, 6 September 2010 W?rtsil?'s Propulsion Condition Monitoring Service (PCMS) provides up-to-date and in-depth condition analysis, which enables customers to minimize their operational risks through early fault detection, leading to a reduction in the lifecycle costs of their assets.?W?rtsil? announces the launch of a unique Propulsion Conditi...

August Songa Fleet Offers Update
Songa Venus achieved operating efficiency of 93% during the month; the rig completed its work on the first and has now commenced work on well no 2 out of 3 firm wells for Shell Development (Australia). Songa Mercur achieved operating efficiency of 99% during the month; the rig continues to operate outside Sakhalin Russia on a one well contract for Gazflot. Songa Saturn remained warm stacked in Ma...

Owners Up To LNG Challenges, Says Germanischer Lloyd Klein
Fears that owners may not be fully aware of the imminence of or implications of wide-reaching environmental legislation due to be phased into the shipping industry over the course of the next decade may be wide of the mark, Germanischer…Read at Owners facing up to LNG challenges, says Germanischer Lloyd’s Klein...

MTN Chooses Hellespont Comms
MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) and Maritime Broadband have provided communication services to a Hellespont product tanker. The LR1 ‘Hellespont Progress’ has been fitted under a 36-month agreement with German-based ship owner Hellespont Ship Management GmbH & Co KG. “On the MT Hellespont Progress, we have chosen to proceed with a three-year contract for MTN global C-Band ...

Cargo Handling In Aktau Port To 5.5% In The Jan Aug, At 8.57 Million Tonnes
Freight traffic passing through Aktau International Commercial Sea Port (the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan) for January-August 2010 shrank by 5.5% compared with the same period a year earlier, to 8,570,000 tons of dry cargo and petroleum products, the Port Authority statistics said....

GPC Handles Record Tonnage
GLADSTONE Ports Corporation (GPC) achieved record throughputs for the last financial year handling in excess of 83.3 million tonnes....

Klaipedos Naftas Throughput Is Up 6.3% In Jan-August To 5.25 Million Tonnes Of Petroleum Products
The volume of petroleum products passing through the Lithuanian terminal Klaipedos nafta in January-August increased by 6,3% compared with the same period last year, to 5.25 million tons, the company’s press release said. In August the terminal transshipped 557.900 tons of oil, up 3.37% y-o-y. The terminal’s eight-month revenues totaled 80.7 million litas...

Storm Over Plans For Haldia Berth
The controversy over the commissioning of Haldia dock's berths 2 and 8, it seems, will never be over. ABG Haldia Bulk Terminal Pvt Ltd, the SPV floated by ABG Group for undertaking the operation of the berths, claims it is ready to start work any day , depending on the allotment of ships to the berths by the dock authorities. The matter is not so simple, say sources....

Cargo Turnover Of Vysotsk LUKOIL-II-Aug Falls 10% In January To 8.2 Million Tonnes
Freight flows via Vysotsk terminal LUKOIL-II (Leningrad region) in January-August amounted to 8,220 million tons, or more than 10% below the 2009’s figures, the Port Vysotks operational data said. In August exports of petroleum products through the terminal totaled 1,145,000 tons (331,000 tons of VGO, 321,000 tons of MGO, 493,000 tons of HFO). According to the forecast of LUKOIL, the termin...

To Patronize 22 Large Container Vessels AP Moller-terminal Next Year
No fewer than 22 large container vessels designed with lower draft will patronise the AP Moller Terminal at the Lagos Port Complex as from March, 2911.The management of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, led by its Group Chief Executive officer, Mr. Nils Andersen told President Goodluck Jonathan during a visit to the State House in Abuja few days ago. Also at the meeting were former Head of the Interim...

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