Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, has signed a contract with China Oilfield Services Ltd (COSL) to supply the designs for a total of six new ships. The two Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) and ...
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Capita Unite union members are to strike following proposals to offshore work to India. The dispute centres around four sites employing 220 staff in Reading, Craigforth, Birmingham and Bournemouth. The affected sites serve Prudential ...
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Bharat Petro Resource, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation, advices that Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, USA, the operator of Mazambique's offer Area 1 block, has reached Heals of Agreement with Eni, the operator of ...
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Simon Davies, founder of Privacy International, has blasted the online gaming industry for inadequately protecting gamblers' privacy and failing to adhere to basic principles of data protection. Further reading Information Commissioner ...
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CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through a combination of job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to an analysis of eight years of published accounts for the venture. The supplier signed ...
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China National Petroleum Corp has commissioned a trunkline of its Second West-East gas pipeline that links Shenzhen in southern Guangdong province and Hong Kong, the company said Thursday. Gas started flowing through the spur on Wednesday ...
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IT staff are spending 30% of their time carrying out basic tasks and are growing frustrated with the lack of time left to focus on transformational work. The average IT worker is also only using half of the skills they possess as a result ...
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Shell and engineering company Technip have signed a heads of agreement to enhance collaboration on the design, engineering, procurement, construction and installation of future innovative floating LNG projects, the latter said Thursday. ...
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Almost all IT workers that use multiple automation technologies are having serious problems as a result of the need to process more jobs, according to a Forrester survey. Big data, business analytics, cloud computing and mobility are ...
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U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years. Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to ...
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Rolls Royce, the global power systems company announced an order worth more than GBP 100 million to supply integrated power and propulsion systems for seven offshore drilling vessels in Brazil. The ships will be built at the ...
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Throughout history there have been many instances of alluring success that has led many people to chase a perceived golden opportunity only to end up very disappointed. In recent times there has been a genuine gold rush atmosphere when it ...
Sandra Pickering faced her audience and saw them slumped on their seats. She continued with her pitch -- how a career in information technology is rewarding and empowering. At the end of the presentation, the audience, 14 to 16 year old ...
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By 2030 around 70 percent of the Europe's energy requirements is predicted to come from abundant reserves of gas in Russia, the Artic and the neighboring areas of southeast Asia and North Africa. Also to the European Union's 27 member ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan announced it expects to spend USD 528 million over the next 3 years developing is new South of Embley bauxite mine located near Weipa in Queensland’s Far North. The project’s developers have commenced meetings ...
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