Chevron Announces $5.2 Billion Capital Spending Program
Chevron Corp. has announced a $5.2 billion capital and exploratory spending program for 2000. "Our spending program reflects continued confidence in our company's prospects for growth…
ExxonMobil Announces Completion of $2-Billion Sable Gas Project
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced the completion of the $2-billion Sable Offshore Energy Project off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, with the delivery of the first…
Partnership Sets Record for Mooring Depth
Delmar Systems, Inc. and Shell Deepwater Development, Inc. set another world record for mooring depth when the two companies partnered to moor Transocean Marianas in more than 7,500 ft.
USCG Proposes Safety Zone for Gulf Rigs
The USCG is proposing to establish safety zones around seven large oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, to protect them from marine traffic transiting the fairways…
Unocal Forecast Sees Growth in Oil, Gas Production
Unocal Corporation said it expects the company's worldwide average net crude oil and natural gas production to rise 44 percent to nearly 700,000 boepd by 2004. The…
Noble Drilling Files Suit
Noble Drilling Corporation, along with its subsidiaries Noble Drilling Services Inc. and Noble Drilling (U.S.) Inc., has filed suit against Samedan Oil Corporation and Mariner Energy, Inc.
Outstanding Passenger Vessels
Measuring 175 ft. in length, dinner cruise vessel Starship was recently delivered to Starship Cruise Lines of Biloxi, Miss. Boasting a mega-yacht style, the vessel…
ACCL Adds New Itineraries for 2000
Known as the original smallship cruise line, American Canadian Caribbean Line (ACCL), has established 25 new itineraries for the year 2000. Included in the new schedule…
Comsat Wins Contract with Cunard
Comsat Mobile Communications (CMC) has signed a three-year agreement with Cunard Line Limited to provide worldwide data and satellite communications for the Line's…
Ferry Service Reduction Plan for WSF
Washington State Ferries (WSF) has drafted a plan to cut ferry service beginning next June to make up for a $52 million shortfall that stems from the passage of…
Vessel Retrofitted with Wastewater Treatment System
Vehicle ferry Bowen Queen, operated by the British Columbia Ferry Corporation (BCFC), has been retrofitted with Hydroxyl's enclosed wastewater treatment system.
Vessels Change on Route
A conventional ferry will replace one of the PacifiCats on the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay route starting February 1 to allow the fast ferries to be phased in more gradually…
Alaska USCG Announces Five-Star Safety Rating
The Alaska USCG, in conjunction with local harbormasters and the uninspected passenger vessel industry, is promoting a new Five-Star Safety Rating Program for the industry.
Landing Craft for Waterborne Construction
Breezeswept Bay Dock Works recently took delivery of a Packman 23 ft. landing craft designed and built by the William E. Munson Company, Mt. Vernon, Wash. The vessel…
USCG's Newest Cutter Arrives in Ketchikan
The newest USCG cutter to join the fleet in Alaska arrived in Ketchikan. Cutter Anthony Petit sailed toward its new southeast Alaska homeport after beginning its travels in Maryland…
Davenport Enters Service For Army Corps
The USACE received a new tool for dam construction, repair and bank revetment work -59 ft. inland river towboat Davenport. Constructed by Marine Builders, Utica…
Munson Delivers 27 ft. Landing Craft
Oregon State Parks & Recreation recently took delivery of this Packman 27 ft. high-performance landing craft designed and built by the William E. Munson Company.
UNO Researchers Develop Nontoxic Technology Against Corrosion
University of New Orleans (UNO) researcher Al Daech is afraid of heights; not a good phobia to have when your research involves space shuttles, fuel tanks, and other, big, space-age equipment.
E&P Spending 2000: A Disappointing Gain?
While the theoretical jury deciding which direction the offshore drilling market will take is still out, recent data suggests that the level of spending internationally will disappoint.
Gladding-Hearn to Deliver Largest Incat Fast Ferry
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, The Duclos Corporation, has begun construction of a new all-aluminum catamaran, which will join three other high-speed ferries built…
