offshore: search

Hercules Offshore to Present at Bank of America Energy Conference

HOUSTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hercules Offshore, Inc. (Nasdaq: HERO - News) announced today that John T. Rynd, Chief Executive Officer and President, will present at the Bank of America Energy Conference in Key Biscayne, Fl, on Friday, November 14, 2008, at 9:20 a.m. EST (8:20 a.m. CST).

NASA: Drilling Offshore Virginia May Hurt Rocket Launches

HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- NASA is protesting a proposal to lease offshore Virginia for oil andnatural gas development over concerns that drilling would interfere with rockets' flight patterns. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration fears giant platforms would make suborbital rocket launches from its Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. much more difficult, Keith Koehler, a NASA spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires.

NASA: Drilling Offshore Virginia May Hurt Rocket Launches

HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- NASA is protesting a proposal to lease offshore Virginia for oil and natural gas development over concerns that drilling would interfere with rockets' flight patterns. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration fears giant platforms would make suborbital rocket launches from its Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. much more difficult, Keith Koehler, a NASA spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires.

Venezuela raids offshore banker Stanford Bank

CARACAS, Venezuelan (Reuters): Venezuelan military intelligence officials on Friday raided offshore banking group Stanford International Bank, a prosecutor and the US-founded company said.

Revenue's new offshore campaign

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will launch a second campaign next year to get tens of thousands of people to pay tax on money hidden in offshore bank accounts.

US MMS seeks more offshore Virginia oil, gas drilling research

The US Minerals Management Service will hold a workshop next month to decide what environmental research needs to be expanded in preparation for a possible oil and gas lease sale off the coast of Virginia. Scientists will present findings on how oil and gas development would impact fisheries, marine mammals and the local economy in Virginia. MMS announced earlier this year it would begin the process of deciding whether to hold a lease sale on a wedge of offshore real estate in federal waters 50 miles from the Virginia coast. A long-standing congressional moratorium on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts was allowed to expire in September, opening the Virginia area to leasing as early as 2011. But congressional Democrats have vowed to revisit the issue next year, which could lead to its closure again.

MMS Moves Forward with Virginia Offshore Lease Sale Preparations

The US Minerals Management Service is continuing to make preparations for a sale of federal oil and gas leases off the coast of Virginia three years from now. Virginia has been penciled in for a lease sale in late 2011 as part of the agency's current 2007-2012 five-year leasing program. But potential offshore exploration and production is still in limbo, because either President-elect Barack Obama or the Democratic-controlled Congress could reinstate bans on leasing in federal waters.

MMS Sponsors Scientific Workshop for Research Needs Offshore Virginia

The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) is sponsoring a workshop to consider and identify environmental research needs in support of potential offshore oil and gas activities off the coast of Virginia. The workshop, hosted by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, is scheduled for December 3-4, 2008, at the Williamsburg Woodlands Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia.

McAfee (MFE), McKesson (MCK), and Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO) are loved by analysts and investors alike; contrarians beware

With selling pressure dominating Wall Street in recent weeks, some investors are looking to exit the market altogether. However, these investors could be missing out on many potentially lucrative opportunities. I have selected 3 such opportunities from today's Schaeffer's Tool Box filter: "Stocks showing heavy all-around optimism." Specifically, McAfee (MFE), McKesson (MCK), and Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO) appear to be prime targets for contrarian investors, given their respective poor technical performances and excessive investor optimism. But before we dive in to the particulars, let's take a closer look at the filter that brought us today's bearish Tool Box selections.

Barclays Wealth Intermediaries Strengthens Senior Management Team In Line With Ongoing Expansion Of Offshore Financial Markets Business

Barclays Wealth Intermediaries Strengthens Senior Management Team In Line With Ongoing Expansion Of Offshore Financial Markets Business

Offshore Online Forex Margin Trading Not Protected by Law

Recently, some foreign dealers have been soliciting financial investments on the mainland via the Internet, with not a few Hong Kong companies investing in the mainland participating in such activity. The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) warned that such transaction is a kind of underground financial activities which are not protected by law, meaning no damages will be paid in the case of casualties.

Indian Offshore Providers Threaten The Turf Of Tier One Outsourcers

Sydney, 14 November 2008. IDC has just released a flash document which discusses the landmark deal Wipro Technologies has signed with Origin Energy and the impact that the Indian offshoring players are increasingly having on the competitive landscape within Australia.

UBS' Weil Indicted In US Offshore Tax Probe;To Fight Charges

ZURICH -(Dow Jones)- UBS AG (UBS) Wednesday confirmed one of its highest-ranking executives has been indicted in the U.S. in connection with a probe into alleged tax evasion, the latest blow for the Zurich-based bank which is struggling to put over $46 billion in mortgage write-downs behind it.

MMS takes first step for acreage offshore Virginia

short source.style.fontStyle = 'normal' ; source.innerHTML = caption[0] + ' [short version]' ; source.title = 'click to maximize' ; switchLongToState = 'closed' ; switchShortToState = 'open' ; } else if ( source.innerHTML.indexOf('[short version]') != -1 ) { // short -> full source.innerHTML = caption[0] + ' [long version]' ; source.title = 'click to collapse' ; switchLongToState = 'open' ; switchShortToState = 'closed' ; } else { // full -> closed source.style.fontStyle = 'italic' ; source.title = 'click to expand' ; source.innerHTML = caption[0] ; switchLongToState = 'closed' ; switchShortToState = 'closed' ; } // Toggle the target (everething below the header row). // First two rows are XMLComment and XMLRoot - they are part // of the long dump, the rest are direct children - part of the // short dump if(document.

The banks have refused to provide extra financial backing for Flanders' first offshore wind park.

Flash Player not detected, please donwload it from the website: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/

MMS Updates on Evacuated Platforms, Gulf Production Shut-Ins

Based on data from offshore operator reports submitted as of 11:30 a.m. CDT today, personnel are evacuated from a total of 72 production platforms, equivalent to 10.4% of the 694 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. There are no longer any evacuated rigs in the Gulf.

Orange Brings Call Centres Back to the UK

Orange (France Telecom) is to bring its offshore call centres back from India to the UK as part of efforts to improve customer services. The move is part of last week’s announcement, which saw the operator scale back its broadband rollout and set aside plans for an Internet TV (IPTV) service (original news):

Romania, worlds second largest host for hackers

Shaw Recruiting personnel for the dredging, merchant shipping and offshore industry. International Crew Services

UBS Indictments In The Wings?

The investigation into the breadth and depth of UBS’s offshore private banking services on behalf of wealthy Americans is now closing in on senior and midlevel executives and bankers, and could result in one or more indictments, according to people close to the situation in reports just out this week. The latest on the ongoing probe that, so far, appears to have identified more than 70 people it might target.

A bat with two middles for cricket's T20 generation

No need for Dhoni's 'character certificate'BT announces 10,000 offshore job cutsDeath after drinks and drugs: Cops turn scanner on peddlersNew rules will make it more 'interesting', says DhoniPietersen backs his bowlers to deliver the goodsAIDS will spread like ‘bushfire’ in India: UNWishing Juhi Chawla a very Happy BirthdayTill now it was a trailer, there is more to come: RajMalegaon probe: Don't blame entire Army, says PatilBack from the bench

Mercator to set up development centre in Chennai

Dubai-based Mercator has partnered Infosys Technologies Limited to establish an offshore development centre in Chennai. The centre, to come up on Infosys campus, will develop and maintain systems to support business-critical functions for Mercator’s customers worldwide, according to a company’s release.

Malegaon blast - By Tapan Bose

No need for Dhoni's 'character certificate'BT announces 10,000 offshore job cutsDeath after drinks and drugs: Cops turn scanner on peddlersNew rules will make it more 'interesting', says DhoniPietersen backs his bowlers to deliver the goodsAIDS will spread like ‘bushfire’ in India: UNWishing Juhi Chawla a very Happy BirthdayTill now it was a trailer, there is more to come: RajMalegaon probe: Don't blame entire Army, says PatilBack from the bench

US indicts UBS wealth management head

UBS suffered its biggest blow yet in the US investigation into its offshore banking activities for rich American clients as US authorities said they had indicted Raoul Weil, the Swiss bank’s head of global wealth management. The US Department of Justice indictment also said other senior unnamed UBS’s executives were involved as alleged “unindicted co-conspirators�. Separately, the indictment includes detailed allegations about how other, more junior, managers sought to circumvent US tax rules over a period of years. The DoJ claims Weil used the expression “toxic waste� to refer to the US business because of its acute sensitivity. In a statement Tuesday night, UBS said Weil would relinquish his duties pending resolution of the matter and said the bank was “fully committed� to continuing co-operating with the probe.

Search took 0.01 seconds.