Offshore engineering specialist Petrofac has been awarded a technical services contract by Equatorial Guinea’s national oil company GEPetrol to support operations on the region’s offshore Block B. Under the contract, valued at around $350m over five years, Petrofac will deliver technical services...
https://splash247.com/petrofac-bags-350m-services-deal-in-equatorial-guinea/
Offshore drilling giant Transocean has secured more work for its drillships in the US Gulf of Mexico and Angola. The New York-listed contractor revealed in its latest fleet status report that an undisclosed client in the US Gulf had extended the contract for the Deepwater Invictus into July this...
https://splash247.com/transocean-picks-up-extensions-for-drillship-pair/
Similar to 15 years ago during the last Somalia piracy cycle, new maritime security companies are emerging. A total of 33 incidents of piracy and armed robbery against ships were recorded around the world in the first three months of 2024, an increase from 27 incidents for the same period in 2023,...
Stena Drilling, the Aberdeen-based business of Sweden’s Stena, has signed a contract for up to two wells offshore Morocco. London-listed Energean has booked the 2009-built drillship Stena Forth, following the farm-in to Chariot’s acreage offshore the North African country. The sixth-generation...
https://splash247.com/stena-drilling-scores-drillship-contract-in-morocco/
APM Terminals has lodged a case at the Durban High Court in an attempt to block an Asian port operator rival from taking over a terminal in the city. Manila-headquartered International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) was meant to have taken over the running of Durban Container Terminal (DCT)...
https://splash247.com/apm-terminals-lodges-case-to-block-ictsis-durban-port-contract/
AD Ports Group’s shipping arm Safeen Feeders has joined the Stena Sonangol suezmax pool, a joint venture between Swedish shipowner Stena Bulk, and Angola’s state-run oil company Sonangol. The 2011 Hyundai Heavy-built 158,600 dwt Safeen Elizabeth, picked up from Ridgebury Tankers about a year ago,...
https://splash247.com/safeen-feeders-vessel-joins-stena-sonangol-suezmax-pool/
The Houthis remain a menace to merchant shipping in the Middle East. After eight consecutive days of no reported incidents, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency carried news yesterday of an incident in the southern Red Sea. The master of a vessel reported being hailed on...
https://splash247.com/gunshots-ring-out-in-the-red-sea-for-the-first-time-in-more-than-a-week/
Prices for private maritime security guards onboard have shot up this year, new analysis from sister title Splash Extra shows. With the Red Sea disruption created by the Houthis latterly combining with resurgent pirate attacks off Somalia, demand for armed guards has leapt in 2024, and with it...
https://splash247.com/prices-for-private-maritime-security-guards-shoot-up/
An incident on Perenco’s Becuna platform offshore Gabon has resulted in five worker fatalities with one worker still missing. An incident involving fire occurred at the Becuna platform on Wednesday, March 20, at approximately 3:25 pm local time. The area has since then been secured, the fire has...
https://splash247.com/fire-on-perenco-platform-off-gabon-leaves-five-dead-and-one-missing/
Somali pirates who hijacked the Bangladeshi-flagged bulk carrier last week have made their first contact with the vessel’s owner, SR Shipping, with maritime security personnel warning of the likelihood of further attacks off the Horn of Africa. No ransom demands have been made yet for the 23 crew...
https://splash247.com/somali-pirates-make-contact-with-owner-of-hijacked-bulker/