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Aug 07, 2001
It’s ironic that New York City’s most powerful tugboat is named after two year old Janet M. McAllister, who, dressed smartly in a sailor suit, christened her namesake
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Aug 07, 2001
Oil major BP intends to be the first to drill in Angola's ultra-deep waters this October, a senior company official said.
"We plan to drill in block 31 towards the end of October,
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Aug 07, 2001
Venezuela has given the state-owned Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago, also known as Petrotrin, approval to enter a joint venture to explore an offshore
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Aug 07, 2001
Bondholders who financed the shipping company Enterprises Shipholding, said on Tuesday they had arrested one of the company's newest containerships, the Ocelotmax,
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Aug 07, 2001
A ship that sank in the Gulf this week while apparently smuggling Iraqi crude oil is still leaking and an Iranian team has been sent to clean up the spill, a regional
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Aug 07, 2001
Chiles Offshore has executed a three-year contract with BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC for the use of the ultra-premium jackup drilling rig the Chiles Coronado, formerly known as Tonala.
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Aug 07, 2001
Conflicting forecasts were circulating in the Asian clean tanker market during the ninth week of stagnant trading, brokers said. "Next week there's plenty of ships but there's nothing prompt,
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Aug 07, 2001
Statoil said savings in acid-rain-causing nitrogen oxide (NOx) from two new low-emitting ships would allow it to meet its NOx emissions reduction targets from one new power station.
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Aug 07, 2001
Cammell Laird Plc is cutting a further 42 jobs on top of the more than 930 it has already axed this year after it entered into receivership following a series of cancelled orders,
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Aug 07, 2001
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, one of South Korea's smaller shipbuilders, said police were investigating a fire that killed four workers on a ship being built in Ulsan, southeast of Seoul.
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Aug 07, 2001
A federal judge has ordered the National Park Service to reduce cruise-ship sailings immediately in Glacier Bay National Park, one of Alaska's top tourist destinations.
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Aug 07, 2001
A fishing ship that sank last week and is leaking diesel fuel has caused the biggest spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster,
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Aug 07, 2001
The newest vessel in TECO Transport's Gulfcoast Transit fleet is now in service. The M/V Sheila McDevitt - named in honor of TECO Energy's senior vice president,
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Aug 07, 2001
Baker Hughes Inc. announced on August 7 that the international rig count for July 2001 was 748, down 12 from the 760 counted in June 2001 and up 86 from the 662 counted in July 2000.
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Aug 07, 2001
In the first six months of 2001, throughput in the port of Rotterdam increased to 161.8 million tons, 2.3% more than in the first half of 2000. The transshipment of coal (+26%),
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