By MarEx 2015-04-16 23:57:47 The U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Design and Engineering Standards has released CG-ENG Policy Letter 02-15 to provide interim guidance on the design of LNG barges. As ...
U.S. Issues Guidance on LNG Barge Design
U.S. Navy Researchers Test Swarming Drones
By MarEx 2015-04-16 23:29:17 A new era in autonomy and unmanned systems for naval operations is on the horizon, as officials at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced recent technology ...
Petrobras Won’t Sell Oil Fields
By MarEx 2015-04-16 18:35:25 Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said on Wednesday it has no plans to sell sub-salt oilfields in a divestment program aimed at shoring up its ...
EU approves German Aid to Wind Industry
By MarEx 2015-04-16 18:31:55 The European Commission on Thursday gave Germany the green light to support the construction of 20 offshore wind farms by paying operators a premium on top of the market ...
World’s Longest LNG Fuelled Voyage
By MarEx 2015-04-16 18:20:02 A Rolls-Royce pure-gas engine has propelled Nor Lines’ Kvitbjørn into the history books by becoming the world’s first vessel to operate between Asia and Europe solely on ...
Tribesmen Take Control of Yemen Oil Terminal
By MarEx 2015-04-16 17:18:16 Yemeni tribal forces took control of a major southern oil terminal and airport after military forces protecting it withdrew from the site, local officials and residents ...
Christians Thrown From Migrant Boat
By MarEx 2015-04-16 17:06:03 Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the crisis off southern ...
Greenpeace Critical of Spain’s Spill Response
By MarEx 2015-04-16 16:57:32 Spain launched an investigation on Thursday into the sinking of a Russian ship off the Canary Islands, as coastguards battled a six-km (3.7-mile) oil slick close to ...
$50 Million in Coins Salvaged from Wreck
By MarEx 2015-04-16 16:40:01 Marine salvage experts have recovered $50 million in silver coins from a ship sunk by a German submarine in 1942 as it was transporting the cash from India to London to ...
Maersk Oil to Cut 200 Jobs
By MarEx 2015-04-16 16:24:47 Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk will cut 200 jobs in its Maersk Oil unit due to a drop in the oil price and to reduce operating costs by 20 percent over the next two years, ...