Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said on Monday it expects to save about 10 billion reais ($4.51 billion) by 2018 after one in eight employees agreed to quit under an early retirement plan.Petrobras, as the company is known…
Diamond Petroleum Ventures LLC (DPV), a thermal unit provider based in Lafayette, Louisiana, has appointed Em Roosevelt as technical sales representative. Roosevelt is responsible for direct sales and account management and will work toward…
The award is in recognition of his “outstanding, significant and unique achievements, and extensive contributions” to the offshore industry, and is presented at the Annual OTC Dinner Sunday, May 4.Carl Arne Carlsen’s career highlights coincide with major developments in the offshore industry…
With Coast Guard Cutter Eagle dressed overall as a backdrop, notables including Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Bob Papp, broke the ground for construction of the future National Coast Guard Museum.Connecticut Rep. Joe Courtney, Sen. Richard Blumenthal…
Europe’s latest Galileo navigation satellite has arrived at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical centre in the Netherlands for testing, as the previous two satellites are prepared for shipping to French Guiana for launch this summer.ESA explains…
Business advisory firm, AlixPartners say that Louis Besland has joined the firm’s global Energy Practice as a managing director and will be based in the consultancy's Dubai office.AlixPartners add that Besland has deep experience in the worldwide oil…
The Ship Production Symposium (SPS), hosted by the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), and held in conjunction with the 2014 SNAME Maritime Convention (SMC), is an annual…
Private equity firm Arsenal Capital Partners is considering a sale of its business that helps U.S. oil and chemical companies reclaim import taxes, a partner at the firm said.Timothy Zappala told Reuters that other options for the company…
Contributes $5,000 to Bird Rescue CenterThe Port of Long Beach will donate $5,000 for the surgical and rehabilitative care of a California brown pelican found recently on the shoreline in Long Beach with a slashed pouch, a wound thought to be caused by someone with a knife or other sharp object…
The State University of New York Maritime College will hold its May Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 9, 2014 at 11 a.m., in the St. Mary’s Pentagon, Fort Schuyler, on the SUNY Maritime campus.Dr. Michael A. Cappeto, Interim President of the Maritime College…
The State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College said it will honor two industry leaders at its annual Admiral’s Scholarship Dinner on Tuesday, May 6. The dinner will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Vander Clute Hall on the SUNY Maritime College campus…
The State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College announced Friday that two student cadets, Julia Paxton of Sebastopol, California, and Brandon Baranyar of Fairfield, Connecticut, have been selected as recipients of the 2014 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence…
British oil and gas explorer BP will cut around 30 percent of IT jobs in its international upstream division following a review of its support services, a source familiar with the situation said. BP confirmed its support service review may result in IT job losses…
Major operators and innovators gather in Abu Dhabi for ITF members’ meeting.The CEO of global leading energy services company LR Senergy, James McCallum has issued a stark warning that oil and gas productivity will drop if the drilling sector…
Morten Mortensen, who was recently employed as Sales Manager at Dan-Bunkering (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has been promoted to Managing Director effective May 1, 2014. Morten Mortensen has approximately 20 years of combined experience in both sales and procurement on a very high level…
