Middle East
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UN seeks millions to safeguard decaying laden FSO off Yemen
A social media campaign launched on Monday by the United Nations aims to bring the world closer to preventing a…
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Saipem books CIMC jackup for Saudi Aramco contract
Ocean Challenger, the asset management company of CIMC, has recently entered into a charter contract with Italy’s Saipem for the…
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TotalEnergies joins Qatar’s massive LNG project
QatarEnergy has penned a partnership deal with France’s TotalEnergies for the North Field East (NFE) expansion of the world’s largest…
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Greece’s tanker spat with Iran takes a twist with latest court ruling
A Greek appeal court on Wednesday overturned an earlier court ruling that allowed the confiscation by the United States of…
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QatarEnergy advances LNG carrier newbuilding project at South Korean yards
QatarEnergy, the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplier, is pressing ahead with its North Field expansion project with new…
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Canadian pension fund invests $5bn in DP World assets
International port operator DP World has sold a 22% stake in the Jebel Ali Port, the Jebel Ali Free Zone…
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Iran’s Supreme Leader defends logic of seizing Greek tankers
Iran officially confirmed confiscating two Greek tankers in the Persian Gulf last month in retaliation for Greece’s role in the…
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Iranian ships seen carrying Russian crude out of the Black Sea
Iranian-controlled vessels have been drafted in to ship Russian crude out of the Black Sea in the latest chapter of…
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McDermott wins FEED contract for Qatar’s largest offshore oil field
Houston-headquartered McDermott International has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by North Oil Company (NOC) for the Ruya…
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Vantage Drilling sells jackup trio to ADES Arabia
Houston-based Vantage Drilling International has sold subsidiary company Emerald Driller Company to ADES Arabia Holding for $170m. An additional $34m…
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Greek shipping ministry urges ships to avoid Iranian waters
Greece’s shipping ministry has advised the country’s ships to avoid Iranian territorial waters when crossing the Persian Gulf, Strait of…
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Saudi Arabian yard teams with Keppel’s rig designer
Saudi Arabian yard International Maritime Industries (IMI) and rig designer Keppel LeTourneau Middle East (KLET), a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore…
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Sapura Energy offloads pipelay vessel for $71m
Malaysian offshore services provider Sapura Energy has initiated an asset sale process to improve its balance sheet position with the…
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Iran warns further Greek tankers could be targeted
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that other Greek tankers currently in the Persian Gulf could be detained…
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ADNOC Logistics & Services signs for more LNG newbuilds
ADNOC Logistics & Services (ADNOC L&S), the shipping and maritime logistics arm of the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company…
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Al Seer Marine adds two LPG carriers
Abu Dhabi’s Al Seer Marine, a subsidiary of International Holding Company (IHC), has acquired the 20,700 cu m LPG carriers…
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Adnoc buys two jackup rigs
UAE-based Adnoc Drilling, the largest national drilling company in the Middle East by rig fleet size, has acquired two offshore…
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Iran seizes two Greek-flagged tankers
Iranian forces detained two Greek-flagged tankers in the Persian Gulf on Friday following the seizure of Iranian oil by the…
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Greece to send apprehended Iranian oil to the US
Diplomatic relations between Greece and Iran have stumbled after a complex sanctions-related shipping case unfolded in waters to the east…
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Middle East container ports are the most efficient in the world
Ports in the Middle East took four of the top five spots in the second edition of the global Container…
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