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• National Grid: LNG cargo berths on Sunday Isle of Grain

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• Siem said Letter of Intent with Petrobras for two medium sized PSV

     Siem Offshore has entered into a Letter of Intent (’LoI’) with Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V. Turkey for two of its mid-sized PSVs. The LoI is for a charter period of approximately 2 years with 1 year option for each of the PSVs.  The area of

• Bergen Group Skarveland awarded new contract from Hellesy Shipyard

     Bergen Group have through subsidiary Bergen Group Skarveland AS received a contract to complete a worth NOK 25.5 million with Hellesøy yard AS. The contract is linked to an offshore new construction of a Norwegian shipping company. Delivery will be completed by May 2010. Bergen Group Skarveland is included in Bergen

• Petrobras has awarded a 2-year contract for the AHTS Far Scout

     Petrobras has awarded a 2 year contract to AHTS Far Scout (UT 722 L, 2001, 18.000 bhp) in Brazil. Start-up of the contract will be October 2009.  The total value of the contract is approx. NOK 180 million.   Contacts: CEO Karl-Johan Bakken – tel. 90 10 56 97 CFO Torstein Stavseng -   tel. 91

• Wartsila wins contract Pipavav

    Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s major ship power system integrator, has signed a ship design contract with Pipavav Shipyard of India. The contract calls for a total of 12 Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) to be designed by Wärtsilä and built by… Read at Wartsila wins Pipavav contract

• Transocean Ltd. announces Deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig GSF Celtic Sea awarded three-year contract

    Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG) announced Friday that its moored deepwater semisubmersible rig GSF Celtic Sea has been awarded a three-year contract by an undisclosed customer for operations in Angola commencing in the second quarter of 2011. Estimated contracted revenues related to the three-year contract are approximately $350 million.

• STX pound large order VLOC

    STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has reported to the Korean Stock Exchange that it has signed a single contract for the construction of eight 400,000 dwt very large ore carriers. The contract is valued at about $879.8 million

• Eskom Coal Cuts Demand Forecast Under-funding

    Eskom Holdings Ltd., South Africa’s state-owned power utility, scaled back its forecast for coal demand by 30 percent after delaying the construction of new plants because of a funding shortage.? Eskom, Africa’s largest power company, will need about 141 million metric tons a year by 2018, said Brian Dames, the

• Saipem to build floating LNG terminal in Dubai for offshore OLT

    Saipem SpA is building a floating liquefied natural-gas storage terminal at Dubai World unit Drydocks World LLC’s ship-building yard, for the Italian gas company OLT Offshore LNG Toscana. Saipem is converting the LNG carrier “Golar Frost” into a floating regasification unit that will have a storage capacity of 137,000 cubic

• Daewoo German ship could be up to $ 450 million

    South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s second-biggest shipbuilder, said on Friday the value of its latest ship order from Germany could rise to $450 million, including an option. Daewoo said on Thursday it had won a $300 million order from a unit of German utility firm RWE?

• Coal ships sail through the Cape to avoid pirates – Dealer

    Dry bulk ship owners are insisting vessels go via the Cape of Good Hope on voyages from South Africa to Mediterranean ports to avoid pirates in the Gulf of Aden – adding 10 days to shipping times, traders said. Utilities in Italy, Greece and Israel which use coal shipped from

• Major oil, gas contracts in negotiations with the European partners

    Iran has been negotiating with over 30 companies from nine European countries in recent years for carrying out energy projects in the country despite mounting global economic sanctions and political pressures. The companies include: Swiss EGL; Norwegian Statoil, Norsk Hydro, Sintef, and DNV; Russian Gazprom; Turkish ASB and Botas; French IFP, Axens,

• Momentum consortium wins contract for leasing and management of new business jackup of Dragon Oil

     Momentum, together with consortium partners Yantai Raffles Offshore China and TSC Offshore China have been awarded a contract for the lease and management of one newbuild jackup by Dragon Oil (Turkmenistan).? Momentum will be the main drilling contractor responsible for the daily operation, management, logistics and maintenance of the rig and

• Sembawang Shipyard and Kakinada Seaports form joint venture

    Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard and Indian company Kakinada Seaports have teamed up to establish and operate a marine and offshore facility catering to offshore drilling units operating in Indian waters.

• Taiwan coal imports fall as Taipower cuts shipments

    Taiwan, which imports all of its coal, reduced purchases of the commodity in July as the island’s biggest electricity producer cut shipments. Imports fell 16 percent from a year earlier to 5.21 million metric tons, the island’s the Bureau of Energy said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. Consumption dropped 1.03