Americas
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Seaspan scraps another 13-year-old boxship
Seaspan continues to scrap barely teenage boxships. Clarksons Research details now the Canadian tonnage provider has sent the 3,700 teu…
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Subsidiaries of Trinity E&P file for bankruptcy protection
Several subsidiaries of Trinity Exploration and Production – an E&P company focused on Trinidad & Tobago offshore and onshore projects…
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Lawyer acquitted on charge of making fraudulent Deepwater Horizon damages claims
A lawyer accused of making fraudulent damages claims relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf…
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Two VLCCs fixed to export US crude this month
August has so far seen two VLCCs fixed in the spot market to export US crude to Singapore – the…
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Exxon, Chevron and Hess to combine in bid for oil rights in Gulf of Mexico
A trio of US oil companies, including two supermajors, has formed an alliance for the purpose of bidding for oil…
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Suezmax makes historic transit across the Panama Canal
On a day where suezmax tankers were trading on the Baltic Exchange time charter market for less than $1,000 there…
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Teekay Offshore Partners to raise $100m via Citigroup deal
Teekay Offshore Partners has announced that it has entered into an equity distribution agreement with Citigroup Global Markets. Under the…
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Court seizes $655m from Odebrecht and OAS over Petrobras bribery scandal
A Brazilian court has ordered the seizure of $655m worth of assets from two of the most prominent engineering firms…
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Italian crew in limbo in Canada
Fourteen seafarers are stuck onboard a bulk carrier in Canada while they await the settlement of a dispute between the…
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EPA says Global Partners broke clean-air rules at Port of Albany
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found Global Partners in violation of clean-air regulations in its running of an…
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GE Oil & Gas secures Indonesia work from Premier Oil
GE Oil & Gas has announced that its subsidiary PT Vetcogray has been awarded a filed decommissioning contract offshore Indonesia…
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Herbjorn Hansson in for more NAT shares
Herbjorn Hansson and his son, Alexander, continue to prop up the share price of Nordic American Tankers (NAT). They have…
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Great Lakes operator in default on two loans
Great Lakes bulk freight shipping company Rand Logistics revealed on Tuesday it is in default on two loans. The disclosure…
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Noble cold stacks semi-submersible rig
US offshore driller Noble Corporation has cold stacked another semi-submersible rig amid the depression in the offshore oil and gas…
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Doorae Shipping fined again for breaking anti-pollution law off Hawaii
US authorities on Tuesday fined the South Korean owners of tanker $275,000 for breaking a pollution law off Hawaii. The…
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BOEM pressed to retain three planned leases for drilling offshore Alaska
US Senator for Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, is again pressing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to retain all three…
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NTSB set to begin first phase of examining El Faro’s VDR
The US National Transportation Board (NTSB) on Monday was set to begin examination of the voyage data recorder (VDR) from…
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Strike action under way to protest Petrobras selling off fuel distribution arm
Planned strike action by workers of Petrobras’ fuel distribution arm got under way around Brazil on Monday, according to Reuters.…
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Chinese bulk carrier being investigated after double grounding
The bulk carrier has suffered a double grounding in the Columbia River in Washington state. The 751-foot vessel originally ran…
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Sete Brasil submits its reorganization plan for recovering from bankruptcy
Sete Brasil, the oil rig chartering firm that filed for bankruptcy in April, has presented its draft reorganization plan that…
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