Offshore is one of the industries with the biggest risk profiles in the world. When bad things happen in offshore, people die, often there are explosions and sinkings, fires and oil spills, and the environment can be badly polluted, killing seabirds, fish, dolphins and coral, and inflicting...
Stena Drilling has taken delivery of a new drillship from South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries. The ultra-deepwater capable Stena Evolution has a length of 233 metres, a beam of 42 metres, a depth of 19 metres, an operating draught of 11 metres, a displacement of 89,792 tonnes, and...
Gong Xi Fa Cai, Kung Hei Fat Choi, and Chúc mừng Năm Mới! Happy Lunar New Year to all our readers, and welcome to the Year of the Dragon. At least, this is one time of year where nobody will be sneaking abandoned offshore rigs and supply vessels out of Chinese shipyards to the market […]
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Deliveries include an ultra-deepwater drillship that will initially be deployed in the Gulf of Mexico and a hybrid-powered supply vessel for operation in Chinese waters. Two separate customers in Denmark have meanwhile placed orders for a North Sea walk-to-work vessel and a cable-laying ship. Stena Drilling welcomes new drillship to fleet Stena Drilling recently took […]
Gale-force winds and high waves from a storm led to the listing (tilting) of an elevated liftboat in the Gulf of Mexico in an incident that occurred in late 2022, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said recently. On November 20, 2022, the liftboat L/B Robert was reported to be listing...
We’ve passed Twelfth Night, so let’s look at some key numbers for the year ahead. This week’s lucky lottery numbers are 4, 10, 29, 177, and 470,000. Who is feeling lucky? Four newbuilds for wind: #1 Toyo Nature abhors a vacuum, and as Global Marine Systems, for two decades the former cablelay market leader, sinks […]
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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 […]
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, that’s the cue for a dozen topical features about the offshore industry. Lovers of festive traditions get scrolling, as for the fourth year in a row, we […]
A Unified Command is responding to a crude oil release in the Gulf of Mexico. The incident occurred near the Main Pass Oil Gathering (MPOG) company’s pipeline system southeast of…
https://gcaptain.com/crude-oil-release-in-the-gulf-of-mexico-prompts-unified-command-response/
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued an order dismissing an appeal against a GoM oil and gas lease preliminary injunction. As we reported earlier, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management this month yet again delayed U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM) lease sale 261 pending the outcome of that appeal.
Here’s the ruling:
National Ocean Industries Association President Erik Milito issued the following statement:
“The court’s ruling is a necessary and positive...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/court-rules-against-further-gom-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-delay/