Brazilian oil major Petrobras has placed an order at Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard to build the P-78 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to be installed in the Búzios field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area in 2024. Under the $2.3bn contract, Keppel Offshore & Marine (O&M) will...
https://splash247.com/keppel-seals-2-3bn-fpso-contract-with-petrobras/
Product tanker owners are set to gain from a cyber attack on one of the US’s largest pipelines. The Colonial Pipeline was forced to go offline on Friday, as the company was hit with a ransomware attack. The pipeline transports more than 100m gallons of gasoline and other fuel daily from Houston to...
https://splash247.com/mr-tankers-likely-to-gain-from-us-pipeline-cyber-attack/
The United States is beginning to question whether China is to blame for the box shortages plaguing global supply chains this year. At a virtual meeting hosted by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) last week, Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel said he is exploring how China...
https://splash247.com/fmc-commissioner-to-examine-chinas-role-in-container-shortage/
After unsuccessfully trying to sell its Golfinho asset last year, Petrobras has reopened bidding on the oilfield cluster in the Espírito Santo Basin. The company will accept bids from potential buyers in late May, according to unnamed sources. An asset divestment strategy pursued by former CEO...
https://splash247.com/petrobras-puts-golfinho-offshore-oilfield-cluster-back-on-the-market/
Houston-based offshore driller Vantage Drilling has reportedly received conditional letters of award for its 2009-built jackups and Sapphire Driller for two-to-three-year deals in the Middle East. The two rigs are set to commence the new contracts, believed to have a combined value of $157m, during...
https://splash247.com/vantage-drilling-secures-middle-east-contract-for-jackup-pair/
Offshore driller Noble Corporation said that Australian resources giant BHP has declared a one-well option on its contract for provision of 2013-built jackup off Trinidad and Tobago. The rig’s term has been extended from early June to early July this year, with BHP paying $120,000 per day, Noble...
https://splash247.com/bhp-takes-option-on-noble-jackup-contract/
Houston-based Talos Energy has signed a contract with John Fredriksen’s offshore drilling firm Seadrill for the 2014-built drillship for the Tornado Attic well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The drillship is expected to be on location in the first half of May with drilling activities commencing...
https://splash247.com/seadrill-seals-drillship-contract-with-talos/
For at least the last year, water levels in the Parana River have been an issue, forcing carriers to reduce loads to avoid grounding in the shallow water. Now, as the annual dry season and the annual export season hit at the same time, the problem could worsen. Last year, a lack of rain caused …
https://splash247.com/decreasing-water-levels-on-parana-river-threaten-to-further-disrupt-shipping/
No American boxport is among the top 50 most efficient in the world, a new study reveals, in another damning inditement on the lagging state of US maritime infrastructure. Released this week, The Container Port Performance Index 2020 (CPPI) ranks 351 of the world’s container ports based largely on...
https://splash247.com/american-ports-fail-to-make-the-grade-on-efficiency/
Baltimore-based sHYp has developed an electrolyser that produces hydrogen from seawater or brine without requiring desalination or producing toxic waste. The startup company, launched in 2019, has now entered into a business-development agreement with Green Swan Partners, a venture builder in...