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Oct 27, 2005
ConocoPhillips, Amerada Hess Corp. and Kerr-McGee Corp. posted gains in third-quarter earnings as surging energy prices more than made up for output disruptions
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Oct 27, 2005
The Danish Energy Authority has approved four applicants to bid on construction of the world’s large offshore park at Nysted, south of the isle of Lolland. The bidders are a Dutch company,
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Oct 27, 2005
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. reported net income of $82 million, or $0.60 per share on a diluted basis, for the third quarter of 2005, compared to net income of $2.
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Oct 27, 2005
An Australian newspaper reports that a new customs computer system for port security is causing chaos in Sydney.
Sydney's Port Botany, the nation's second-largest port,
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Oct 27, 2005
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation introduced a new line of rigid bottom, soft-sided launches, named the Resilient Class. The first of this class
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Oct 27, 2005
GE Transportation, in conjunction with its distributor Marinsa Peru, S.A., will supply Pesquera Diamante S.A., in Peru, with 7FDM medium-speed diesel engines.
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Oct 27, 2005
Alstom Power Conversion Incorporated (APCI) reports that the DD(X) Integrated Power System (IPS) Test Team has achieved full torque of over one million foot
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Oct 27, 2005
Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA (WW) proposed an additional dividend of $.62 per share. Subject to approval by an extraordinary general meeting on November 18, this will bring
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Oct 27, 2005
On October 28, 2005, the tenth vessel of a series of 12 for the Turkish customer U.N Ro-Ro will be named and launched from her building berth in Flensburg. The new vessel will be named UN Trieste.
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Oct 27, 2005
A vessel reported to be the most powerful self-propelled and ocean-going cutter suction dredger in the world was christened in Dunkirk, France. The 38,000 hp
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Oct 27, 2005
Wärtsilä Corporation was awarded contracts to supply RT-flex50 common-rail low-speed engines, propellers and Auxpac generating sets to Goodearth Maritime Ltd of Chennai,
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Oct 27, 2005
According to a Reuters report, President George W. Bush's nominee to head Navy acquisition vowed to make shipbuilding a top priority and said she would try to
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Oct 27, 2005
Offshore Systems International Ltd. has won $400,000 in new orders for components to install
electronic chart navigation systems in the Royal Australian Navy's Collins
class submarine fleet.
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Oct 27, 2005
From the Navy News Service
1864 - Lt. William Cushing sinks Confederate ram Albemarle with a spar torpedo attached to the bow of his launch.
1922 - Navy League
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