GMX Resources to raise $300 mln via shares, notes

Oil and gas company GMX Resources Inc said it will raise $100 million via a public offering of common shares and $200 million through a private placement of senior notes, sending its shares down 10 percent.
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Source: Reuters

Top man at Wärtsilä announces his retirement

Wärtsilä Corporation has announced that its president and CEO, Ole Johansson, has decided to retire after reaching 60 years of age in June 2011.
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Source: Motorship

El Paso Stays on Course with 2011 Pipeline and Production Growth Plans

El Paso EP set another year of growth goals for its exploration and production and pipeline units, with plans to invest $3.2 billion in 2011. Much of the firm's 2011 plans will continue with projects that were set in motion in 2010, warranting no changes to our model assumptions. However, we're encouraged by the firm's commitment to develop both its pipeline and E&P unit, while initiating development plans for its recently formed midstream joint venture with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. KKR.  El Paso remains supportive of its MLP, El Paso Pipeline Partners EPB, with plans for two to three asset dropdowns this year, and to use dropdown proceeds for more debt reduction.
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Source: Morning Star

New LPG engine from MAN

MAN Diesel & Turbo has introduced its Liquid ME-GI (liquid gas injection) engine which is powered by LPG (liquid petroleum gas), a smaller market than LNG but of significance in certain segments of the industry.
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Source: Motorship

Ferry KMP Lautan Teduh II burned, killed 19 people.

Ferry KMP Lautan Teduh II burned in the Sunda Strait, Sumatra, killed 19 people.
A total of 434 passenger ferry KMP Lautan Teduh II, which burned in the Sunda Strait , Sumatra, Indonesia, successfully evacuated, but 19 people of whom died, largely because of plunging into the sea.
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Source: Allvoices

Egdon acquires interests in UK petroleum licences

Hampshire-based oil and gas exploration company Egdon Resources is to acquire 50 per cent of two onshore UK petroleum exploration and development licences (PEDLs) from Oslo-based Valhalla Oil and Gas.
In turn it will pay Valhalla part of the profit from any revenues, after costs. The value of the deal was not disclosed.
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Source: Insider Media Limited

Shippers angry over 'silly' security demands from carriers

THE Shippers' Voice, an online forum for shippers, has lashed out at a move by container shipping lines who demand advanced freight information five days ahead of loading rather accepting the 24-hour advance rule set by the EU.
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Source: Shipping Online

Exxon Mobil drills world's longest well off eastern Russia

Irving-based Exxon Mobil said Friday that it had drilled the world's longest "extended-reach" well, a total length of 40,502 feet, in the Odoptu field offshore from far eastern Russia.
The horizontal well is part of the big Sakhalin-1 oil and natural gas project.
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Source: Star-Telegram

Shell’s Voser Looks to Rosneft for Exploration Deal

Peter Voser, chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, said he’s looking at a partnership with Russia’s state-owned OAO Rosneft to hunt for oil reserves.
“We are talking about potentially exploration” together, Voser said today in a Bloomberg Television interview in Davos, Switzerland. “Partnership with national oil companies is part of our business model. This is the way to go, we are driving this, and we’re quite happy to have these relationships.”
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Source: Bloomberg

Indian Navy destroys pirate mother ship, arrests pirates

Whilst the Coast Guard and Navy Dorniers tracked Prantalay, the pirate ship, Indian Naval Ship Cankarso, a recently commissioned Water Jet Fast Attack Craft was directed to intercept and investigate the ship.
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Source: The Hindu
 
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