Turkey’s Dearsan Shipyard has floated out the second of two offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) that the company is building for the Nigerian Navy. Once completed, the OPV will have a steel hull, an aluminium superstructure, a length of 76 metres, a beam of 11 metres, a displacement of 1,100 tonnes, and...
Houston-based offshore energy services player Helix Energy Solutions has signed a deepwater well intervention contract with Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil. Under the contract, the New York-listed company will provide its DP3 riser-based semisubmersible well...
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Offshore drilling giant Noble Corporation has secured more work for its drillship offshore Nigeria. The New York and Copenhagen-listed company said in its fleet status update that TotalEnergies had opted to keep the 2011-built floater on contract for nine more months. The Noble Gerry de Souza...
https://splash247.com/noble-sees-drillship-contract-extended-in-nigeria/
One person is confirmed dead while another has gone missing after a passenger ferry capsized in Lagos state in Nigeria on Wednesday, February 21. Initial reports stated that the ferry, which had 17 people on board, struck a partially submerged high tension pole near Lagos’ Lekki Ikoyi Link Bridge...
Perhaps made complacent by a comparatively low death toll in 2022, the global ferry industry has disgraced itself with a near doubling of fatalities in 2023. Tragically, 2024 is already looking worse – much worse. In January 2024, alone, 237 people have been the victims of ten ferry accidents. The...
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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Eight people are confirmed dead while several others have gone missing after a ferry capsized and sank in the northwestern Nigerian state of Niger on Monday, January 15. The unnamed wooden-hulled vessel was transporting over 100 people to nearby Kebbi state when the incident occurred on the...
Oh, to be young today! I know, I know, I know, I know, Sophie Ellis Bextor’s 2001 single “Murder on the Dancefloor” is back topping the charts after it appeared in a post cinematic rip-off of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and David Guetta is filling the dancefloors with his Grammy nominated “Baby Don’t...
Officials in Rivers state in southern Nigeria report that at least 20 people are feared to have died as a result of an accident involving two passenger boats on Tuesday, January 9. Additional details about the events that resulted in the casualties have not yet been confirmed, though it has been...
Nigeria’s National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) reports that eight people were killed after a passenger boat capsized in the south-eastern state of Anambra on Sunday, January 7. The unnamed wooden-hulled vessel was carrying over 50 passengers and was transiting the Niger River between Kogi...