The port authority of Cagliari has announced that Port of Amsterdam International together with UK-based company Pifim are the only party to express a formal interest in managing the local container terminal. An international tender was launched earlier this year in order to find a new operator for...
Aberdeen-headquartered E&P company Dana Petroleum has appointed Jongwoo Kim as its new chief executive officer. Kim joins from Dana’s owner Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC), and replaces Yongwoo Kang who is returning to Korea to take up the role of senior executive VP for E&P at KNOC. Kim...
Dutch green hydrogen infrastructure company VoltH2 has signed an agreement with North Sea Port for an industrial plot in Vlissingen, where it plans to build a green hydrogen plant with storage, refuelling and distribution facilities. VoltH2 says the plant will produce up to 3,600 tonnes of green...
https://splash247.com/north-sea-port-to-become-green-hydrogen-hub/
Norwegian driller Odfjell Drilling and Chinese yard and CIMC Raffles have been awarded a three-well contract extension by Neptune Energy. The semi-submersible rig will be deployed for the second drilling phase of Neptune’s Fenja field development in the Norwegian North Sea. The latest extension...
https://splash247.com/odfjell-drilling-and-cimc-raffles-awarded-semi-sub-extension-by-neptune/
Norway’s Subsea 7 has secured a major contract for work offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The contract scope covers the project management, engineering, procurement, installation and pull-in of one subsea rigid flowline and flexible riser together with flexible flowlines and associated subsea...
https://splash247.com/subsea-7-secures-contract-in-trinidad-and-tobago/
French oil and gas player Perenco has finalised an asset play, a rare move by the vintage tanker specialist. In June Splash reported that Perenco recirculated its only VLCC, the 306,000 dw , after a deal to offload the 20-year-old ship to Greek interests for $27m had fallen through. Now the ship is...
Oslo-listed Stolt-Nielsen announced today that subsidiary Stolt Tankers has agreed to acquire five chemical tankers from Chemical Transportation Group (CTG) for trading in the Stolt Tankers Joint Service. The five ships, which are 26,000 dwt and with stainless steel cargo sections, were built in...
https://splash247.com/stolt-tankers-seals-quintuple-chemical-tanker-acquisition/
Maersk Drilling has announced that its customer Brunei Shell Petroleum has exercised the contract extension option for the jackup rig for operations offshore Brunei Darussalam. The contract extension has an expected duration of 602 days and will commence in May 2021 in direct continuation of the...
https://splash247.com/maersk-drilling-awarded-jackup-extension-by-shell/
John Fredriksen has appointed Tor Andre Svelland as the CEO of his family holding company Seatankers. Svelland, 53, heads UK-based hedge fund Svelland Capital and comes in to Seatankers to replace Harald Thorstein, who departed earlier this year. Svelland is already on the boards of both Frontline...
https://splash247.com/john-fredriksen-appoints-new-seatankers-ceo/
The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, headed to Devon in the southwest of the country to visit a historic shipyard, which has just been saved. UK firm InfraStrata has paid $9.2m to buy Appledore Shipyard, a niche shipbuilder that has been churning out ships for more than 150 years. Last...
https://splash247.com/hw-group-reviving-british-shipbuilding/