[ad_1] As we close on the end of another year CHIRP Maritime pauses to reflect upon the last 12 months and to look ahead to the future. During 2019 we reported on bulk cargo liquefaction and willful ship pollution. We looked at the cruise vessel...
[ad_1] Shell has announced a "significant" gas and condensate discovery within reach for a tieback to the Prelude FLNG facility in the Browse Basin off Western Australia. Drilling of the 100 percent Shell-owned Bratwurst -1 exploration well was successfully concluded on December 4 after nearly 80...
[ad_1] While most businesses and companies have started winding down operations in preparation for the Christmas holidays, global maritime charity Stella Maris (Apostleship of the Sea) will be busy supporting the many seafarers who face unseen difficulties this time of year. The organization’s port chaplains and...
[ad_1] Pirates have released the 19 crewmembers taken from the tanker Nave Constellation on December 3. All 18 Indian and one Turkish nationals were freed on Saturday after being kidnapped from the vessel in the Gulf of Guinea while en route from Bonny Offshore Terminal to...
[ad_1] Shane Guidry, the CEO of the U.S. offshore services firm Harvey Gulf, announced Friday that he has purchased all of his company's shares in an associated LNG transport venture, Quality Liquefied Natural Gas Transport (Q-LNG). Before the transaction, Guidry held a majority 70 percent...
[ad_1] Ascenz, a trusted provider of end-to-end smart shipping solutions for the maritime industry, has signed an agreement with Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, to become one of its Certified Fleet Data Application Providers. With this tie-up, ship owners and ship operators...
[ad_1] For children, Christmas is a magical time: waiting for Santa and all the presents he will leave under the tree. But for some children their father won’t be there to share in the excitement. He’s likely to be hundreds or thousands of miles away...
[ad_1] [By Nancy Bazilchuk] Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming to 2 degrees C or less. New research shows that there’s plenty of room to store captured CO2 — in offshore geologic rock formations. Carbon capture and storage (CCS)...
[ad_1] In this episode of the In the Know podcast, Maritime Executive editor-in-chief Tony Munoz spoke with Joseph Farrell III, director of business development at Florida-based salvage and emergency response company Resolve Marine. The company and its non-profit charity, Mission Resolve, helped to bring a...
[ad_1] The two polar icebreakers, Xue Long (Snow Dragon) and Xue Long 2, are working together for the first time during China’s 36th Antarctic expedition, with Xue Long 2 also being the first domestically built icebreaker. Xue Long 2 was jointly designed by Aker Arctic Technology in Helsinki, Finland and the Marine...
