COLUMN | Court reports – Isabel dos Santos versus Angola; Santos of Australia versus Tiwi Island activists [Offshore Accounts]

We’ve said it before and we will say it again; if you want to meet the movers and the shakers of the offshore industry, you don’t need to pay big bucks to attend an expensive conference. Instead, you simply have to go to the public gallery in court, and watch them battle over millions of […]

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COLUMN | The Twelve Days of Christmas 2023, final edition: ten spot anchor handlers; eleven foreign vessels for Hornbeck Offshore, and the new twelve labours of Hercules Supply in China [Offshore Accounts]

Merry Christmas! On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping and so on, all the way back to that partridge in a pear tree from day one of the old festive carol. But not here, as, for the fourth year in a […]

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COLUMN | The Twelve Days of Christmas 2023: Days 7,8 and 9: Standard Supply and Capital Maritime, Costamare and Vestland; eight billion tonnes of coal; nine missing Vroon vessels [Offshore Accounts]

Not long until Christmas now! On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… a partridge in a pear tree, according to the ancient English carol, but at Baird Maritime, we have already reached the second half of our Twelve Days of Christmas from an energy perspective. So, who replaces the seven […]

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VESSEL REVIEW | Waddenstroom – Catamaran workboat for Dutch renewables support company

Dutch operator Van Wijngaarden Marine Services has taken delivery of a new catamaran workboat to support its clients in the offshore renewables sector. Built by compatriot Damen Shipyards Hardinxveld in compliance to Bureau Veritas class rules, Waddenstroom has a length of 36.66 metres, a beam of...

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COLUMN | Is it them, again? Argentina and Nigeria, and Vietnam’s got a maritime video star! [Offshore Accounts]

Rarely in life do you get a second chance. But since we are almost Back to December, it is time to revisit that vintage Taylor Swift classic, where the singer describes how she messed up a relationship and begs for another chance. With that attitude, she could stand for president of Argentina and...

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COLUMN | Get the PSVs to the Greek; get the drillships to the Belgian; get the sunken treasure to the Briton: Standard Supply, Vantage Drilling and Ocean Infinity [Offshore Accounts]

According to his carefully edited Wikipedia entry, Evangelos Marinakis “is a Greek media mogul, shipowner, lyricist, and member of the Piraeus city council. He is the founder and owner of Capital Maritime and Trading Corporation and also the owner of the football clubs Olympiacos in Greece and Nottingham Forest in England.” And now he is […]

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COLUMN | Explaining Tidewater’s dip as AD Ports buys ENAV Radiance for US$200 million [Offshore Accounts]

Hot on the back of Britoil buying Vroon’s fleet of 30 offshore support vessels (OSVs), and Golden Energy Offshore taking another five from the Dutch owner, last week’s big offshore deal was Abu Dhabi’s AD Ports buying the “eastern fleet” of ENAV. AD Ports has bought these ten vessels trading in...

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COLUMN | Wind wobbles – follow the money: Ørsted and BP make write-offs; Siemens Energy seeks aid; MingYang gets massive; Fredriksen’s Edda and ex-Havila hedges; Rickmers and Diana Shipping enter wind [Offshore Accounts]

“Our wind industry, for instance, is a European success story,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently said. “But it is currently facing a unique mix of challenges.” We’re no fan of Ms von der Leyen, a nepo-baby whose incompetence as German Defence Minister was rewarded not with the sacking she so richly deserved, […]

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COLUMN | Solstad Offshore and Aker Capital: circular reasoning and circular dealmaking [Offshore Accounts]

Offshore is a cyclical industry; when assets are at their cheapest, nobody wants to buy them, and nobody will lend money to acquire offshore vessels and rigs. If only I had had the foresight to buy Tidewater stock in May 2020 when it traded below US$5 per share, as opposed to US$68 on Friday. But...

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COLUMN | The chickens come home to roost again: Swiber charges in Singapore; Texas judicial investigation; CWind sold; Guardian Geomatics sold; Newbuild! Newbuild! [Offshore Accounts]

This week we look at consequences: judicial consequences, legal consequences, the consequences of bad strategy and bad execution, and the inevitable consequences of high day rates. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a newbuilding anchor handler out there, being built as you read this. Adjust your forecasts accordingly. But first, we look at other consequences. Goh-Goh […]

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