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Peru starts sanctions process against shipping firms for alleged price fixing
Peru’s anti-monopoly body Indecopi (The National Institute for the Defence of Competition and Intellectual Property), announced on Monday that it…
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USCG panel hears from Tote’s port engineer as first round of El Faro hearings concludes
Tote Services’ port engineer discussed with El Faro’s captain the brewing storm that would ultimately sink the cargo vessel, the…
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Mexico’s regulator proceeds with new phase of offshore block tender
Mexico’s oil industry regulator CNH (Comisio Nacional de Hidrocarburos) on Friday announced that it is proceeding with plans to auction…
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Final BP defendant in Deepwater Horizon case is cleared
The final individual defendant from BP in the Deepwater Horizon disaster was cleared by a jury in New Orleans on…
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El Faro panel hears that parts of boiler system were in need of maintenance
An inspector found parts of El Faro’s boiler system called burner throats were in need of maintenance but did not…
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Brazil’s Senate passes bill removing Subsalt Polygon obligations from Petrobras
Brazil’s Senate has passed a bill that removes an onerous financial commitment from state oil firm Petrobras and may help…
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Asia Vision leaves Sabine Pass with landmark LNG export cargo
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker the departed from Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana on Wednesday night carrying the first export…
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Swiss arrest Odebrecht executive in connection to Petrobras scandal
Swiss authorities have arrested an executive of Brazilian engineering giant Odebrecht as part of the ongoing bribes-for-inflated-contracts corruption scandal surrounding…
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Fugro to deploy Brazil-built IRM vessel under new contract with Petrobras
Dutch survey company Fugro has secured a one-year inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) contract with Brazil’s state oil form Petrobras.…
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Pemex CEO says industry reform best thing for company amid oil price plunge
The recently installed new chief of Mexico’s state oil firm Pemex says the plunge in prices will not change his…
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Green group slams draft environmental assessment of fracking offshore California
A green group on Tuesday slammed as “deeply disappointing” the US federal government’s first draft environmental assessment since January’s official…
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Petrobras to be first recipient of LNG export shipment from Sabine Pass terminal
The landmark first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana is being bought by Petrobras,…
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El Faro was on list of vessels in need of attention, panel told
The El Faro was on a list of vessels considered to be in need of more safety inspections, according to…
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US on verge of its first LNG export shipment from a non-Alaskan port
The first export shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a non-Alaskan US port is in the offing with the…
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Blaze on former Pemex oil products tanker at Mexican shipyard
A blaze broke out on a former Pemex oil products tanker at the TNG (Talleres Navales del Golfo) naval shipyard…
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E-mails cause objection, anger and regret on day four of El Faro hearing
A witness objected to one line of questioning and attempted to clarify a previously presented item of evidence on Friday’s…
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Norden bulk carrier spills bunker oil into Columbia River
A bulk carrier spilled about 80 gallons of bunker oil into the Columbia River in Washington state yesterday, prompting containment,…
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BOEM to offer 45m acres of offshore Gulf of Mexico sites for development
US federal government agency the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced on Thursday that next month it will offer…
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Tanker captain pleads guilty to obstructing USCG probe into illegal discharges at sea
The captain of an Aegean Shipping chemical tanker that made illegal discharges into the sea pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstructing…
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Lawsuit against retroactive wages for truck drivers threatens Port Metro Vancouver
The stability of labour relations at Port Metro Vancouver could be endangered by a new lawsuit from a group of…
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