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Fieldwood Energy files for Chapter 11 at same time as buying Noble’s Gulf of Mexico assets
Houston-based oil producer Fieldwood Energy filed for bankruptcy on Thursday at the same time as it announced it was acquiring…
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Washington State may use land lease controls to impede offshore oil plan
Washington State is considering blocking land leases and certain other land usage agreements in an effort to hinder plans for…
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Rowan drillship given early termination by Anadarko
Rowan Companies has been given notice of early termination by Anadarko for 2014-built drillship . The drillship, operating in the…
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S&P positive for most shipping segments bar liners
S&P Global Ratings believes that this year demand in the three main segments of the global shipping industry – dry…
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Asia
Keppel confirms new EIG lawsuit filed in the US
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has confirmed that it has been served with a summons for a $660m civil case…
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America’s biggest oil import terminal loads VLCC for export
America’s biggest privately owned crude import terminal, Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), is taking a big step towards becoming an…
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Cheniere Energy closes two LNG storage tanks at Sabine Pass because of leaks
Houston-based Cheniere Energy has been ordered by the industry regulatory body to shut down two storage tanks at its Sabine…
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Diamond Offshore Drilling awarded new semi-submersible contracts
Houston-based Diamond Offshore Drilling has won several new contracts for its semi-submersible rigs according to its latest fleet status report.…
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US truck driver shortage problem predicted to worsen
Online freight forwarder iContainers says that the truck driver shortage problem plaguing the US at the moment is set to…
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Californians protest offshore drilling plan at BOEM public meeting in state capital
Protestors rallied outside a meeting of the Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOE) in Sacramento, California, according to Reuters. Environmentalists…
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Petrobras starts process of selling Texas refinery
Brazil’s troubled state oil firm Petrobras has started the process of selling its refinery at Pasadena, Texas, according to Reuters.…
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California plans to impede increased offshore drilling by denying pipeline permits
California elected officials on Wednesday spelled out their intent to hamper as much as possible the White House’s plan to…
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GulfMark Offshore targets business in Mexico with new JV
GulfMark Offshore has formed a partnership with Marcos y Asociados Infraestructura y Energia to form Mexican joint venture GulfMark Servicios…
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NTSB releases its full report on El Faro tragedy
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday released its full final report on the October 1, 2015 sinking…
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Injured crewman airlifted from Aegean tanker off Galveston
A US Coast Guard (USCG) helicopter was used to airlift an injured crewman from a tanker about 40 miles south…
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Georgia port capacity set to more than double by 2028
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) on Monday announced an ambitious vision for the next decade that would see the ports…
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Four more US Navy sailors punished over last year’s fatal destroyer collisions
Four more US Navy sailors have been punished in relation to the two multiple-fatality collisions of guided missile destroyers with…
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Dorian LPG enters sale and leaseback deal for gas carrier
Dorian LPG has reached a $70m sale and bareboat charter arrangement for its 2015-built 84,000 cbm carrier Concorde. The deal…
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Shell Offshore announces major oil strike in US Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans-based Shell Offshore Inc, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, on Wednesday announced what it called one of its…
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Energy firms seek funding to dredge Corpus Christi Ship Channel
A group of six energy companies on Wednesday called for federal funding for dredging of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel…
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