The Libra Consortium has made the final investment decision (FID) for the contracting of the floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) Mero 4, to be installed in the Mero field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. The Consortium operates production in the Libra block 170 km south of...
https://splash247.com/libra-consortium-makes-final-investment-decision-on-mero-4/
An American furniture shipper has filed a $600,000 lawsuit with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) against a couple of global containerlines, which it claims have repeatedly contravened terms of the US Shipping Act. The case will be watched carefully by other shippers, hit hard by huge price...
Vancouver-based AmmPower Corp. has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Porto Central in Brazil’s state of Espírito Santo, for the development of a green ammonia production facility, storage and distribution. The Canadian resource-exploration company, increasingly focused on clean...
https://splash247.com/ammpower-to-provide-green-ammonia-energy-solutions-to-brazils-porto-central/
Port Houston, the top US port in waterborne tonnage, “experienced a major failure of the storage devices that support all of the applications used to operate both Barbours Cut and Bayport container terminals,” according to a letter on the port’s website last week from executive director Roger...
Summer is proving to be fearsomely hot for dockworkers on every coast of America, working record volumes of boxes with ships forming long queues at many gateways as peak season arrives on what has already been a peak year. The grave situation has been made worse by strained rail connections inland...
2010-built handysize bulker , owned by South Korea’s Pan Ocean, arrived at the Port of Davant on the Mississippi River southeast of New Orleans only to be ordered to leave US waters because of invasive insects found in the dunnage from previous cargo. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...
https://splash247.com/insect-infested-pan-ocean-bulker-ordered-to-depart-us-waters/
The commercial fishing industry in the US has been vocal in opposing wind power projects, saying that the windmills will disturb ecosystems and hinder their ability to catch scallops, clams, squid and lobster. Support for the industry came from the governors of nine east coast states – Connecticut,...
Recommendations to address ongoing port and supply chain congestion, and proposed changes to agency regulations related to refunds for cancelled cruise ship voyages, were topics addressed during the open session of a Federal Maritime Commission meeting held on Wednesday. Commissioner Rebecca Dye...
https://splash247.com/fmc-discusses-recommendations-to-improve-supply-chain-issues/
Offshore driller Transocean has been awarded two contracts in the US Gulf of Mexico worth a total of $55.5m. Deepwater Conqueror has been given a one-well contract with a major operator, for a period of around 85 days and worth $28.5m. Deepwater Asgard was also awarded a one-well contract, for a...
https://splash247.com/transocean-wins-drillship-contracts-worth-55m/
In September 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order to extend a ban on oil and gas drilling off the coasts of Florida for 10 years. This week, Republican Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott introduced the American Shores Protection Act to legally extend the moratorium...
https://splash247.com/act-introduced-to-solidify-moratorium-on-oil-and-gas-drilling-off-florida/