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/
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/
Swiss-based offshore driller Transocean has won one new contract and one extension for two of its drillships. The first contract is for the Deepwater Invictus for 40 days in the US Gulf of Mexico on a $440,000 dayrate. The name of the client was left undisclosed. According to the latest fleet...
https://splash247.com/transocean-bags-new-deals-for-drillship-pair/
The novelist Jodi Picoult once said that, “there are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” Changing the world for the better is hard, but there have been a lot of expectations lowered in the offshore industry this week. Unfortunately, these reduced expectations seem to have produced little joy in […]
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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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LUANDA/LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Angola said on Thursday it would leave OPEC in a blow to the Saudi-led oil producer group that has sought in recent months to rally support for further…
https://gcaptain.com/angola-leaves-opec-in-blow-to-producer-group/
Marine construction contractor Ocean Installer has secured work from TotalEnergies and its Block 17 partners on the Pazflor FPSO offshore Angola. As part of the deal, Ocean Installer will as the main subcontractor to West Africa and Middle East-focussed OSV operator Petro Services carry out...
Singapore-based Yinson Production is constructing a pilot offshore carbon capture and storage (CSS) plant on the FPSO Agogo being built for Azule Energy. The project is a milestone towards the realisation of Yinson Production’s Zero Emissions FPSO concept that will accelerate the decarbonisation of...
https://splash247.com/yinson-productions-building-css-solution-for-angola-bound-fpso/
Africa Global Logistics (AGL), part of Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC), has secured rights for the Lobito port container and conventional terminals in Angola following an international call for tenders launched in January. As part of the new concession, which will be effective in the first quarter...