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Houston Ship Channel temporarily closed after sulfur dioxide leak from Petrobras-owned refinery
A section of the Houston Ship Channel was closed to traffic for less than three hours after a sulfur dioxide…
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BOEM plans next offshore lease sale by internet to avoid protests
The US government’s Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOEM) is moving to avoid repeats of disruptive demonstrations by environmentalists by…
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Shell to cut 25% of its deep water Gulf of Mexico workforce
Royal Dutch Shell intends to axe around 25% of its workforce in offshore US Gulf of Mexico projects by the…
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US Customs beefs up Jones Act enforcement
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest agency within the Department of Homeland Security, has created the National Jones…
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ConocoPhillips to axe 1,000 more jobs worldwide
Houston-based ConocoPhillips is to cut 1,000 more jobs around the world as it continues to contend with the drop in…
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Schlumberger sheds 16,000 jobs in first half
Oilfield services company Schlumberger has revealed in its latest results report the shedding of 16,000 jobs during the first half…
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Sacked Horizon whistleblower awarded more than $1m in damages
A court in the US has awarded more than $1m to a former Horizon Lines master who was sacked in…
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Paragon Offshore wins new work, stacks another two vessels
Paragon Offshore has won new term employment for two of its drilling rigs, but contract terminations by Petrobras have forced…
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Magellan to build Pasedena product terminal
Magellan Midstream Partners will construct a new high-capacity marine terminal along the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, Texas to handle…
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Matson acquires Span Alaska Transportation
US owner Matson has announced that its subsidiary, Matson Logistics, will acquire Span Alaska Transportation for $197.6m. The transaction is…
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OSG may spin off its international business
US-based Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) is considering separating its domestic and international businesses into two standalone publically traded companies. The…
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Aegean and three engineers indicted over alleged pollution conspiracy
Two subsidiaries of Greece’s Aegean Group on Friday were indicted in Charleston, South Carolina, on pollution conspiracy and obstruction of…
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NewLead vessel to be sold at auction
A US court has ordered an arrested handymax bulk carrier owned by Greece’s NewLead Holdings to be sold in an…
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BP says final cost of Deepwater Horizon disaster is $61.6bn
BP announced on Thursday it believes the final pre-tax cost of its Deepwater Horizon spill will be $61.6bn or $44bn…
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Section of Houston Ship Channel closed after chemical spill
A section of the Houston Ship Channel, one of the world’s busiest trade waterways, were closed for several hours on…
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Ports America reportedly up for sale
Bloomberg is reporting that Ports America is looking at selling up for as much as $1bn. The firm is owned…
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics settles US price fixing case
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), a joint venture between Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA and EUKOR Car Carriers, has announced that it has…
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Firm involved in failed merger of Halliburton and Baker Hughes fined $11m
San Francisco-based investment company ValueAct Capital has been ordered by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to pay $11m in…
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USCG slammed for dithering over Polar icebreaker
The president of the Shipbuilders Council of America (SCA), Matthew Paxton, gave a strong defence of his industry’s ability to…
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Hercules Offshore sells rig for $3.16m
Financially strapped American drilling contractor Hercules Offshore announced on Monday that one of its subsidiaries is selling a jack-up rig…
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