UK retailer Target has announced five new sustainable packaging goals to help deliver products that are better for the environment. The retailer is planning to eliminate the use of polystyrene, as it is difficult to recycling for guests ...
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Insiders say there's a silver lining to stagnant box office takes in 2016. Box office takes for China's film industry remained stagnant in 2016, but most industry insiders see it as a blessing in disguise. Last year's box-office total was ...
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Is Apple looking into manufacturing the iPhone in the US? According to the Nikkei Asian Review it is. On Thursday, the Japan-based business publication cited an anonymous source in reporting that Apple had asked the two Asia-based firms ...
A JU2000E jack-up drilling rig named “KANTANQIHAO” was delivered to Sinopec Offshore Oilfield Services Company (SOOSC) at CIMC Raffles on April 12, which is the most advanced offshore drilling rig that Sinopec owned currently. ...
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Rumour has it that a Google Chromecast 4K (or is that Chromecast 3?) is in the works – and it may be nearly ready to launch. Last year, Google disappointed with a Chromecast 2 that didn’t feature 4K support. Now we’re ...
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Thailand-based industrial conglomerate Siam Cement hopes to jack up 5-10% sales out of its paper and packaging this year, banking on demand from Southeast Asian countries. Domestic growth, however, is expected to be around 1-2%. Siam ...
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International oil and gas services specialist HS Ocean Group (HSOG) has been awarded a multi-million dollar refurbishment and upgrade of a high-specification jack-up drilling rig at its facility at Labidco Port, La Brea in Trinidad. ...
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Ithaca Energy Inc. (TSX: IAE, LSE AIM: IAE) ("Ithaca" or the "Company") announces completion of flow test operations on the second development well on the Stella field and provides an update on Greater Stella Area ("GSA") development ...
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Nido Petroleum Limited (ASX: NDO) ("Nido" or the "Company") has been advised by Operator Lundin Petroleum that the Hakuryu-11 jack-up rig is currently in Vietnam awaiting an appropriate weather window for mobilisation to the Republic of ...
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BP Norway has extended the contract for the jack-up Maersk Reacher by two years from September 2014 to September 2016.BP Norway holds options to further extend the contract by up to additional four years until September 2020.The estimated ...
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Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, is pleased to announce the spudding of the Centrica operated ...
Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with Premier Oil Norge AS for the jack-up Maersk Guardian for a one well drilling operation, the Myrhauk exploration well, in the Norwegian North Sea. The duration of the contract is approximately 62 ...
Nido Petroleum Limited(ASX:NDO)("Nido"or the"Company")is pleased to advise that the Company has signed a binding rig contract with UMW Standard Drilling Sdn Bhd('UMWSD')for the Jack Up drilling rig"UMW Naga 5"to drill the Baragatan prospect ...
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Petroceltic International plc ("Petroceltic" or "the Company"), the upstream oil and gas exploration and production company focused on North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, today provides an update on its western Black ...
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A North Port at the heart of Scotland's oil & energy sector has taken delivery of the world's newest jack-up rig, the Prospector 1. The purpose built port, owned and operated by the Cromarty Firth Port Authority (CFPA), was selected by ...
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