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REGISTER NOW for the ARIES DESERTCHALLENGE 2012 !!

Take part in the adventure drive of theseason !

The DAY - 18th

May, FridayMeeting Point - 1

stEmarat petrol Station,

Sharjah-Kalba RoadTime - 3 PM

Register your names TODAY with Mr. Shaj

at admin or by emailing to [email protected]. Last date forregistration is on or before 16th MAY2012.

Another veteran Aries cricketer hangs uphis boots!

Aries Cricket will definitely be found poorer afterthis year, as Sarath, our veteran wicket keeper formany years announced his retirement from cricket.He follows the footsteps of Prabhiraj, ourevergreen all-rounder who had announced hisplans to quit Aries cricket after this years Annualmatches.

In a mail circulated amongst the staff, Sarath says I t hink it is time for me to retire from Aries Cricket

Team. We have also seen lots of emerging young

talents during the Sharjah Stadium matches whocan represent Aries Group, now a known team in

Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman & UAQ cricket circles.It is easy to stop. Please make sure the game is

continued in good spirits and taken to higher

levels... Thanks for all the support given.

Arise! has been a vocal critic of the veterans ofAries cricket for quite some t ime now. However,there is one important aspect that was brought tolight by another of our veterans, who says it is nowdifficult for managing the minimum quorum of 11players on a game day!

It is a wake-up call to the youngsters, who aresupposed to take over the mantle It is not onlyplaying that our veterans excelled in, but alsoORGANISING the game booking grounds,arranging matches, ensuring team attendance,purchasing cricket gear and so on. This is where theyoungsters are YET to prove themselves.

The challenge was thrown by Prabhiraj. Whilecongratulating Sarath on his achievements, he addsSomebody should now take the responsibil ity and

this game should go on. It is easy for non-playing

captains to cry for retirement. Let us see who allcould carry on with cricket after 30 and marriage.

Outsiders don't even know the pain behind in

organizing a team and other arrangements.

While we reject Prabhirajs contention that onlythose who play cricket have the right to crit icize theplayers, we do join him in endorsing the challengeto the young cricketers in Aries.

Wednesday, M ay 16, 2012 Volume 1, Issue 150
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M arin e & Offshore News

Daewoo starts construction of worldsbiggest container shipSouth Koreas Daewoo is set to build a 400-metercontainer ship for Danish shipper Maersk. Thevessel is the first of 20 such container ships thatDaewoo will build by 2015 under a $3.6 billionorder from Maersk.

South Korean shipbuilder has started work on theworlds largest container vessel, with a deck bigenough to accommodate four football pitches.Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering saidthe 400-meter-long ship will carry up to 18,000 TEU(twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers.

It would be delivered to Danish shipper A.P.

Moeller-Maersk in the second half of 2013. Thevessel is the first of 20 such container ships thatDaewoo, one of South Koreas three largestshipbuilders, will build by 2015 under a $3.6 billionorder from the Danish company.

Denmarks Crown Prince Frederik on April 12attended a ceremony marking the start of thevessels construction at Daewoos shipyard at Okpoon the south coast.

Petrobras signs contract for VLCC vessel

hull conversionPetrleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has signed a $1.7bndeal with a consortium of Brazilian industrialconstruction companies Odebrecht, OAS and UTCEngenharia for the hull conversion of a Very LargeCrude Carrier (VLCC).

It is part of the plan to convert four Very LargeCrude Carrier (VLCC) vessels into four oil platforms;P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77.The vessel conversion work will be carried out inthe Inhama shipyard in the state of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.

The shipyard has already been leased by Petrobrasand is being remodeled to meet the company'sdemands. Each of the platform vessels planned forconversion will have the capacity to produce up to150,000 oil barrels per day and compress 7 millionm of natural gas per day.

After delivery, the platforms will operate in theFranco and Nordeste de Tupi prospects, located inthe pre-salt area of the Santos Basin, off the coastof south east So Paulo, Brazil.Work on the project is expected to commence inJune this year, with conversion of the hull of thefirst vessel, P-74 scheduled to be concluded inMarch 2014.

The conversion of the P-75 hull is scheduled to becompleted in October 2014 while the P-76 and P-77hulls are expected to be completed in 2015.After the conversion of the hull, the vessels will beinstalled with oil and gas processing and productionplant modules, and the units will be fullyintegrated, which involves their installation in thehulls.

This work will be carried out at a different locationand agreement in this regard is expected to be

signed by April 2013.

Land For LNG Power Plant Soon- Kochi

Government of Kerala and Petronet LNG Limited,promoters of the LNG terminal coming up onPuthuvype island, are learnt to have reached anunderstanding on land for an LNG-based powergeneration facility.

Sources here said that the government hadidentified 50 acres for the project, the originalextent requested for by PLL, which proposedsetting up a 1,250 mw plant using the advantagesof the proposed plant's proximity to the LNGreceiving and re-gasification facilit ies.

Though the proposal for setting up the powerplant was made more than two years ago, theproject could not go ahead as the land requiredfor the project was not immediately available,technicalities holding up the transfer of land forthe project.

However, the State government is learnt to have

cleared the differences of opinion on a claimmade by a government agency over the land nowidentified for the power project. Though onlyabout 30 acres have now been cleared for theproject, government is making all efforts to clearthe remaining 20 acres at the earliest, sourcessaid.

Meanwhile, Cochin Port Trust has received the


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Union shipping ministry nod for building anexclusive jetty for receiving LPG.

The permission was granted after a meetingrecently convened by the Union shippingsecretary, sources here said. The proposal for adedicated facility for receiving shipment ofcooking gas was proposed in 2009 by Indian Oil

Corporation. The project was meant to solve theproblem of the perennial shortage of LPG in theState.

A State government review of the project in thesecond half of 2011 had found out that theproposal for the LPG jetty was almost in anabandoned stage. Subsequent ly, Stategovernment engaged Kerala State IndustrialDevelopment Corporation as the nodal agency foroverseeing the project implementation.

Sources here said that the Cochin Port Trust wouldbuild the LPG receiving jetty with financial backingfrom Indian Oil Corporation.

The new jetty is being built after IOC abandonedthe idea of using Cochin Oil Terminal for receivingshipments of LPG. It was earlier proposed that theLPG jetty could be built along the multi-user liquidterminal (MULT), proposed by the Cochin PortTrust. However, the MULT project has been held upfor various reasons.

Solar powered ship first to circumnavigateglobe

Last week the worlds largest ship running solely onthe power of the sun cruised into Hercule Harbor inMonaco, officially completing the worlds firstcircumnavigation for a 100% solar powered ship.

The vessel, a 31m catamaran named MS 'TranorPlanetSolar' , is equipped with 537 square meters ofsolar panels used to recharge 6 blocks of lithium-ion batt eries with every sunrise. Rated to 93 kW,the propulsion package and efficient hull designgenerates enough power for the vessel to reachspeeds of up to fourteen knots.

The 'Tranor PlanetSolar' is the brainchild ofRaphael Domjan of Switzerland, who in the Springof 2004 first envisioned the expedition based on hislove of Jules Vernes novels. Years later,construction began at the Knierim Yachtbaushipyard in Germany and she was eventuallylaunched in March 2010.

Finally, in September 2010, the MS 'TranorPlanetSolar' left Monaco with a four-man crew inhopes of sailing around the world strictly on solarpower. Nineteen months later; after crossing the

Atlantic and Pacific, passing through both Panamaand Suez canals, and navigating the treacherouswaters of the Gulf of Aden, 'Tranor PlanetSolar'completed its journey, breaking records for fastestcrossing of the Atlantic Ocean by solar boat andlongest distance ever covered by a solar electricvehicle along the way.

Now, the journey will be put together into a bookand documentary film scheduled to be released inSeptember. The vessel itself will undergo aretrofitting to allow for more passengers and willbe available for charter to adventurers looking for abit of green history.

Li fe @ Ar ies

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations to Mr. Vijesh Vijayan of UT divisionon his marriage with Ms. Litty
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