The United States Coast Guard has ordered a Kongsberg Maritime EM 122 deep water multibeam echo sounder for use aboard the icebreaker Healy, the largest vessel in its fleet.

Read at U.S. Icebreaker receives new deep water multibeam echo sounder

Search to find what you want

• Cruise ship breaking the ice of Antarctica, is approaching open water

     (AP) A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists and scientists to see emperor penguins in Antarctica has been crunching through pack ice and should reach clear water soon, a shipping official said Wednesday.  Source

• DryShips announces the results of its 2009 Annual General Meeting

    DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and offshore oil deep water drilling, announced yesterday the results of the annual general meeting of its shareholders (the “AGM”). The following proposals were approved and adopted at the meeting: –  The election of two Class B Directors of

• Intermarine receives Industrial Echo

    The Industrial Echo, fourth in a series of four heavy-lift newbuildings, was delivered to Intermarine this month in Portugal. The 10,000 deadweight-ton vessel sailed for Hamburg, Bilbao, and Gijon to load project cargoes for Brazil and Uruguay. The 139-meter-long Industrial Echo is part of Intermarine’s E-Class series, all of which

• DryShips announces it has signed an agreement with Nord LB Waiver conditions for reaching $ 116 million of debt

    DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and offshore oil ultra deep water drilling, announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with Nord LB on waiver terms for $116 million of our outstanding debt. This agreement is subject to customary documentation. George Economou, Chairman and

• DryShips announces the acquisition of two Panamax vessels

    DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced yesterday an agreement to acquire two Panamax vessels for an aggregate price of $75.76m. The vessels, a 76,635 dwt Panamax built in 2007, and a 76,635 dwt Panamax built in 2006,

• FESCO icebreaker, ice navigation

    Icebreakers of FESCO, “Far East Shipping Company? will start providing ice navigation during the 2009-2010 period, the port authority said. “Magadan” icebreaker time-chartered by Rosmorport is expected at the port of Magadan on December 24, to carry out navigation there till May 10, next year

• DryShips announced a contract with Commerzbank and WestLB on Waiver Conditions for $ 70 million achieved

    DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement with Commerzbank and West LB on waiver terms for $70 million of our outstanding debt. This agreement is subject to customary documentation. George Economou,

• DryShips, there are agreements with Nord LB and West LB conditions for giving up a total of U.S. $ 183 million of debt signed

     DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced today that it has signed agreements with Nord LB and West LB on waiver terms for $116 million and $67 million respectively of our outstanding debt. George Economou, Chairman and Chief Executive

• DryShips announces termination of agreement to acquire two Panamax vessels

    DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced today that its previously announced agreement to acquire 2 Panamax vessels has been terminated. George Economou, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented: “The acquisition of the 2 Panamax vessels has

• DryShips announced it has signed agreements with Nord LB and West LB on Waiver of Conditions for a Total Signed

    DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced yesteday that it has signed agreements with Nord LB and West LB on waiver terms for $116 million and $67 million respectively of our outstanding debt. George Economou, Chairman and Chief

• DryShips, there is agreement with Commerzbank and West LB waiver of conditions for reaching $ 70 million of debt

     DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS) (the ‘Company’ or ‘Dryships’), a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Commerzbank and West LB on waiver terms for $70 million of our outstanding debt

• StatoilHydro hunts for smaller cheaper rigs

    Norwegian operator StatoilHydro says it wants to see smaller and cheaper drilling rigs, designed to work on intervention work, in a bid to reduce use of expensive deep-water units. “We think there is a need for a new type of drilling rig,” Oystein Arvid Haaland StatoilHydro’s head of subsurface technology told Upstream’s sister

• Petrobras to launch a tender for 28 oil platforms in September

    Brazil’s state-run Petrobras this month will launch a bid round on 28 oil rigs to be built in Brazil and used for massive offshore subsalt fields, the company said. Brazil plans to rely mostly on locally manufactured equipment to pump crude from deep-sea subsalt fields, part of President Luiz Inacio Lula da

• Bahrain offers expertise in the deep gas exploration

    Officials said the Bahrain Energy Ministry and the state-owned Bahrain Petroleum Co., or Bapco, have overseen projects that called for deep exploration of gas. They cited energy exploration projects in the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom over the last 40 years.

• Dryships announces agreement with West LB on the conditions for exemption from U.S. $ 71 million debt

     DryShips Inc., a global provider of marine transportation services for drybulk cargoes and off-shore contract drilling oil services, announced today that it has reached agreement with West LB on waiver terms for $71 million of our outstanding debt. This agreement is subject to customary documentation. George Economou, Chairman and Chief Executive