Oil services company Weatherford International Plc said it would eliminate the position of chief operating officer as it copes with a 60 percent slide in global crude oil prices.The company said COO Dharmesh Mehta would move to the role of executive vice president for corporate strategy…
NewLead Holdings Ltd. announced today that it recently added five bitumen tanker vessels to its fleet. The Company has expanded its fleet to 10 vessels in less than a year while performing on its strategy to capitalize on opportunities that arise in the market…
Three large new escort tugs contracted by Norwegian operator Østensjø Rederi, will feature Wärtsilä dual-fuel (DF) engines integrated with a customized gas storage and supply system also supplied by Wärtsilä. The tugs will operate primarily…
Drillsearch delivered a strong operating performance in the December quarter against a backdrop of challenging conditions that affected the oil and gas sector globally.Production of 0.79 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) in the…
Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Great Eastern Shipping Company Limited, has signed a contract to buy a 2015-built 4000 dwt Platform Supply Vessel (PSV). The vessel is expected to join the Company’s fleet during Q4FY2015…
Port of Le Havre has called Expression of Interest (EOI) for Storage facility for liquid Bulks to be set up inside the port. The Grand Port Maritime du Havre (GPMH), a State-owned public corporation, which has taken over the rights and…
CWind has appointed Ben Hooker as Sales Manager U.K. and Stefan Marschner as Sales Manager Germany. Hooker and Marschner will play key roles in developing CWind’s customer relationships and will support the delivery of the business’s portfolio of services…
Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ESTCLF Ventures Inc., a nonprofit affiliate of the Conservation Law Foundation and M.J. Bradley & Associates are teaming up to offer a free webinar for New York-/New Jersey-area marine vessel…
At Bunker Holding, the parent company of a group of worldwide bunker companies, Group HR has been infused with new manpower as of 1 December 2014 with the employment of Henrik Hansen, whose primary task will be the implementation of group-internal…
Videotel has developed a training course designed to guide maritime personnel in addressing one of the industry’s most important issues: energy management. Experts agree that effective energy management is not just good business practice but…
In five days of negotiations for a new three-year contract covering hourly workers at 63 U.S. refineries, the United Steelworkers union (USW) has sent only messages of frustration to its members.Twitter messages on Friday and Saturday said…
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail…
Coldharbour Marine, long recognised for the design, manufacture and supply of inert gas and fluid handling equipment vessels (FPSOs) has moved into a new 25k sq. ft. headquarters in Linby, Nottinghamshire. All of Coldharbour’s administration…
Residents of Islampur, a remote village in the northern Bangladeshi district of Naogaon, were stunned one night last summer when the darkness was suddenly illuminated by electric lights coming from a village home.Why the surprise? The community has no connection to the country's power grid…
The United States and India have reached a breakthrough on two issues holding up civil nuclear cooperation between them, U.S. President Barack Obama told a news conference in New Delhi on Sunday.The two countries signed a landmark civilian…