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Petrobras settles lawsuits in US with 11 more investors
Brazil’s troubled state oil company Petrobras on Wednesday settled 11 more lawsuits with its own investors who claimed the firm…
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Port of Philadelphia $300m upgrade to double capacity
The state of Pennsylvania plans to invest $300m over four years on infrastructure, warehousing and equipment upgrades to the Port…
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Noble Corporation gets further contract extension from Hess
Noble Corporation has earned a further contract extension for one of its offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.…
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Scorpio charters out three bulkers
NYSE-listed Scorpio Bulkers announced it has signed agreements to charter out three vessels. Scorpio says the three it is chartering are: 2015-built ultramax…
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Port of Montreal opens new terminal
Montreal’s Port Authority has opened a new container terminal in the Viau district along the St Lawrence River. The new…
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Trump team given recommendations for port-related investment
The Americas’ leading ports group the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has submitted a list of recommendations to the…
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Court halts sale of two Petrobras fields to Australian company
A Brazilian court has placed an interim injunction on the sale of two offshore fields by state oil firm Petrobras…
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Obama administration’s five-year plan blocks drilling in Arctic waters
Two days after widespread media reports predicted it, on Friday the administration of US President Barack Obama blocked oil and…
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Pola Maritime bulker refloated after grounding in North Carolina
A bulker owned by Pola Maritime that ran aground on Thursday afternoon near Fort Macon in North Carolina was successfully…
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Argentinian authorities boost security at Port of Rosario
Authorities in Argentina have beefed up security measures at the inland Port of Rosario with the aim of clamping down…
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Port of LA and GE Transportation on digital platform that boost efficiency
The Port of Los Angeles on Thursday announced it has joined forces with GE Transportation in a unique pilot scheme…
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Petrobras board approves sale of its LPG division for $819m
The board of Brazil’s state oil firm Petrobras has approved the sale of its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) division for…
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General cargo ship badly damaged by fire while laid-up in Colombian port
The general cargo ship Casanova (1,450 dwt, built 1975) has gone up in flames while laid up for maintenance work in…
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US offshore leasing plan expected to omit Arctic waters
Numerous news outlets reported on Wednesday that US President Barack Obama’s upcoming five-year plan for offshore leasing will omit rights…
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Rowan to stack drillship after Repsol terminates contract
Houston-based offshore drilling contractor Rowan on Tuesday said it has to warm stack one of its drillships after Spanish oil…
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Calls for executive action to ban oil drilling leases in Atlantic and Arctic before Trump sworn in
Environmentalists on Tuesday called for US President Barack Obama to use executive authority to invoke a provision of the Outer…
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NTSB finds faulty wiring likeliest cause of $4m blaze on Great Lakes bulker last year
A fire that badly damaged a Great Lakes cargo steamship in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin late last year was probably caused…
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Shell to invest $10bn in Brazilian oil sector
Shell, encouraged by Brazil’s decision to open offshore projects to more private companies, announced a five-year plan to invest $10bn…
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Venezuela halts petroleum coke exports after burning cargo detected
Exports of petroleum coke from Venezuela’s state-owned Petro San Felix terminal were halted because of burning cargo detected on a…
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Basic safety management failure to blame for fatal Gulf of Mexico explosion
A fatal explosion on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico almost two years ago has been put down…
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