The changing political situations in the Middle East are focusing attention on possibly significant increases in energy production, but countries that could produce that energy still face significant hurdles, according to a panel of Middle ...
Tags: energy production, Mineral
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil and gas developer, has become the first Chinese firm licensed to look for oil in the Arctic, a landmark step for overseas energy exploration for the world's ...
Tags: Arctic Oil, Mineral
The surface of the sea takes up nitrogen oxides that build up in polluted air at night, new measurements on the coast of southern California have shown. The ocean removes about 15 percent of these chemicals overnight along the coast, a team ...
Tags: Sea Surface, Nitrogen Oxides
ArcelorMittal to supply clad steel plate for UAE's largest oilfield Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal has announced that its Industeel site in Le Creusot, France, will provide 5,400 mt of clad steel plates for the Zakum oilfield, the largest ...
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The conflict between Ukraine and Russia could cause the global LNG market to tighten further if the crisis were to escalate and affect gas flows into Europe, but high gas storage inventories in the region should create a buffer in the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Mineral
GC Rieber Shipping has taken delivery of its new advanced subsea newbuild "Polar Onyx" from Ulstein Verft. The vessel is chartered on a five-year contract by Ceona Services (UK) Limited, who will use it for advanced deep-water operations ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has announced a 4.4% increase in the estimated total recoverable resources offshore Norway to 14.2 billion cubic meters of oil equivalent, boosted by the inclusion of resources from among other things a ...
US major Chevron expects to start up its Chuandongbei sour gas project onshore China in 2015, a further delay from its last target of late 2013, the company indicated in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The ...
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MacGregor's three-axis motion compensated crane wins premier offshore industry innovation award. MacGregor's three-axis motion compensated offshore crane has won the Offshore Support Journal's (OSJ) Innovation of the Year award. The news ...
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Online retailing has been one of the biggest buzz words in the retailing landscape in recent years, with major players and smaller retailers alike investing in new infrastructure and updating their online presence in an attempt to secure ...
Tags: Increasing logistic costs, Pressure on service levels, inventory
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has received an order from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. to supply the control system for an LNG carrier that is being built for the Ichthys LNG project* in Australia. The ship will be the ...
The phrase, 'Eat your vitamins,' applies to marine animals just like humans. Many vitamins, including B-12, are elusive in the ocean environment. University of Washington researchers used new tools to measure and track B-12 vitamins in ...
Tags: Vitamin Water, Ocean, B-12, CO2
Wärtsilä receives the first order for its new Slop Water Treatment System Monday, Feb 24, 2014 The new Wärtsilä slop water treatment system has been ordered for an ultra-deep water drill ship operating in the Gulf of ...
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The UK offshore oil and gas industry is experiencing record investment levels but there has been a fall in exploration activity that should lay the foundations for continued production. Industry association Oil & Gas UK Tuesday released ...
Neste Oil and Norwegian-based OSM Group AS have today, 20 February 2014, agreed on a business transfer under which Neste Oil will transfer the ship management functions of Neste Shipping to OSM. OSM is a global provider of offshore and ship ...
Tags: business transfer, ship management functions, specialist expertise