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Oscar Lopez has joined T&T Bisso as an Assistant Project Manager and On-Site Coordinator, bringing with him more than 10 years of experience in Salvage Logistics support and Project Management.  After serving on active duty in the U.S. Army,  Mr. Lopez  began his maritime career as a salvage diver for Titan Salvage in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., quickly moving to tak ...

The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA) has exercised its option to build a further two Roll-On/Roll-Off-Container (Ro-Con) ships with shipbbuilder Hyundai MIPO of South Korea. NSCSA signed a shipbuilding agreement on March 6, 2011 with Hyundai MIPO to build a firm four RoCon vessels and two optional RoCon vessels with the same specifications for a total cost am ...

BOEMRE Director Michael R. Bromwich has announced several key appointments to high-level positions in the two new, independent agencies that will carry out the offshore energy management and enforcement functions currently under the jurisdiction of BOEMRE.  The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) will ...

Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd. in China has secured a contract worth Singapore $143 million (US $116 million) to build a heavy lift sheerleg crane vessel for Asian Lift Pte Ltd. Scheduled to be completed in third quarter 2013, the 5,000-tonne floating crane will be the largest and most versatile heavy lift sheerleg crane vessel of its kind in the world. To be nam ...

John Fredriksen is getting out of single-hull tanker operation. Frontline Ltd.  and Ship Finance International Limited have agreed to terminate the long term charter parties for the single- hull VLCCs Titan Orion, Titan Aries and Titan Ocean and Ship Finance has simultaneously sold the vessels to an unrelated third party.Each charter party will terminate at the t ...

Houston-headquartered Cal Dive International, Inc. (NYSE:DVR) says that Chief Operating Officer Scott T. Naughton, retired September 9, 2011. John R. Abadie, Jr., has been promoted from Senior VP - Operations - Western Hemisphere to Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer, while G. Kregg Lunsford has been promoted from Executive VP - Strategy and Business Development to Executi ...

With the help of laser scanning, Dale Stockstill & Associates (DS&A), McNeill, Miss., recently provided as-built dimensional control to a Gulf Coast shipyard for a five-story accommodation module and helipad for a vessel that serves as living quarters for offshore oil workers.Determining whether or not such a vessel was constructed according to specified 3 ...

MARINE LOG recently interviewed Castrol's Environmental Specialist Susannah Linington to gain some insights into how marine lubricants are playing their part in the drive for greener shipping.Ms. Linington has a BSc in Marine Chemistry and an MSc in Water Pollution Control Technology.  She is a Chartered Chemist and Chartered Environmentalist.&n ...

Now working on the North Slope of Alaska, servicing Nikaitchuq Island in support of oil field development, the tow boat OLD BULL and the deck barge NML 100 were conceived and built in less than four months during the second and third quarters of 2011.Bristol Harbor Group, Inc., Bristol, R.I., was contracted by Northern Maritime Logistics, LLC of Anchorage, Alas ...

Shell Marine Products (SMP) says it plans to leverage its knowledge of two-stroke engine oil stress to launch Alexia S4, a new cylinder oil designed to help ship operators reduce lifetime operating costs and complexity."We pioneered the oil-stress concept and have previously defined it in four-stroke engines," said Surinderdeep Singh, General Manager, Shell Marine Products. "T ...