Oman Shipping Company's (OSC) spot chartering VLCC desk has paid dividends for the shipping company in terms of fixtures.

Malaysia’s Sapura Energy has steadily worked away since the beginning of the year and picked up nine new contracts worth MYR1.8bn ($448.5m) in Malaysia, Australia, India and Mexico.

Shell UK has confirmed a $38.3m contract with Awilco Drilling for an 18 well decommissioning programme.

Shell Marine has expanded its lubricants distribution network into New Zealand as well as adding new locations in Indonesia, Spain and Chile.

Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) joint venture Keppel Smit Towage has named its first innovative LNG dual-fuel harbour tug.

The current LNG market is markedly different from the past but although the previous model of dedicated contracts and single markets provided security this has been also been maintained in the new world of shorter term contracts and spot trades...

MISC petroleum tanker unit AET has sealed a long-term charter for its two newbuild LNG dual-fuelled Aframax tankers with Shell International Trading and Shipping Company.

Russian shipowner PAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has secured $252m in financing for six LNG-fuelled aframax newbuildings currently under construction.

Shell is warning of a shortage of LNG by the middle of the next decade as buyers seek shorter-term contracts, but suppliers continue to seek long-term sales to secure finance for project development.

Singapore has charged 11 with stealing SGD2.4m ($1.79m) in gas oil from Shell's Palau Bukom refinery transferring the oil to a tanker bound for Vietnam.