April 18th, 20202Myo Tun Zaw, the 50 year-old captain of 2007-built containership , has been killed at the port of Cartagena. According to Colombian media reports, the captain was killed in a fight with his crew members however a statement from the manager Zeaborn Ship Management said the perpetrator was an intruder. Colombian authorities did not...
January 13th, 20200Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract by Noble Energy for 2013-built drillship for a one-well campaign offshore Colombia. The contract will commence in the third quarter of 2020, in direct continuation of the rig’s previous contract, and is estimated at around 65 days. Value is around $18.2m, including mobilisation and...
October 29th, 20191The 207,562 dwt has set a record as the largest vessel to load coal at Puerto Bolivar, Colombia, opening a new era in the supersizing of Colombian commodity exports. The newcastlemax vessel has a length of 300 m and a breadth of 50 m and was loaded on a trial cargo draft of 17.5 m. The cargo loaded is destined for Flushing, in the...
January 30th, 20182Colombian authorities raided a German-flagged containership shortly after it departed the port of Cartagena, arresting suspected drug smugglers and confiscating a haul of contraband on board. A team of commandos, immigration officials and police on navy and coast guard vessels intercepted and boarded the Hapag-Lloyd boxship after the...
November 19th, 20170Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state oil firm, has secured four new blocks for deep-water exploration in the US Gulf of Mexico, according to Reuters. The blocks will be developed in partnership with Spanish energy giant Repsol and the award allows the two companies to explore the blocks for a five-year period. Named Garden Banks 77, 78,...
August 15th, 20170An investment fund administered by Goldman Sachs has paid Grupo Argos $136m to take a 50% stake in a Colombian port operator. Compania de Puertos Asociados, known as Compas, moves principally coal and cement. With two port terminals in Cartagena, one in Buenaventura, one in Barranquilla, one in Tolú and two more in Panama and Houston...
August 4th, 20170A week after one of its subsidiaries cancelled plans for a multibillion-dollar liquefaction plant in British Columbia, Malaysian energy giant Petronas had better news with another subsidiary being awarded a shallow-water block in the Gulf of Mexico. PC Carigali Operations was the successful subsidiary, earning the rights to explore...
May 19th, 20170Colombian authorities say they are treating explosions at two different Cartagena shipyards which left seven people dead and 23 wounded as accidents, according to AFP. A fire department spokesman said there were three explosions in all – one at Cotecmar Mamonal naval yard and two at Astivik, a commercial repair yard. All fires were...
May 18th, 20170A series of explosions occurred at shipyards in the coastal city of Cartagena in Colombia, killing at least six people and injuring more than 20 others. According to the local fire service, the blasts occurred within about 30 minutes of each other on Wednesday at two industrial facilities. One blast occurred at Colombian naval...
May 4th, 20170Colombia’s state oil firm Ecopetrol has made the country’s biggest gas find in 28 years at a southern Caribbean Sea well it jointly works with Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum, according to Reuters. In Ecopetrol’s announcement on Wednesday the company said the find is at a depth between 3,675 and 4,415 metres below sea level in...
