Gibson, Louisiana-based Shore Offshore Services (SOS) has completed its acquisition of the derrick barge Swing Thompson from Turnkey Offshore Project Services. The vessel will be renamed Hulk and will continue to operate under the flag of Vanuatu while following ABS guidelines and working towards...
Offshore Decommissioning
COLUMN | Safety culture matters: Pemex and Perenco on the wrong side of history [Offshore Accounts]
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...
COLUMN | Quick updates: PSVs changing hands; subsea newbuilds; Guyana booming; rigs fixing higher [Offshore Accounts]
Money is being made in offshore once again, but tragically lives are also being lost unnecessarily. Earlier this week, we examined how Perenco’s dysfunctional safety culture in Gabon, leading to six people dead or lost in an explosion. This is a sad backdrop for an industry booming at last. Stop...
COLUMN | Where the wind blows, part 2: Shell, Cadeler, HEA Energy, Cyan Renewables, Edda Wind, Norwind and Norside [Offshore Accounts]
In Part One last week, we looked at the paradox of offshore wind, a segment that is growing without profit for many players. This contrasts with offshore oil and gas, which has shrunk but has become intensely profitable for rig and vessel operators, and for the oil companies themselves. Whereas offshore oil and gas companies […]
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GAO slams BSEE and BOEM delays on offshore decommissioning
Worldwide, decommissioning of end-of-life offshore wells and platforms is an important market for a number of specialist offshore service providers. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) indicates that the U.S. market could be a whole lot bigger but for inaction by two U.S. Department of the Interior Agencies: the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
According to GAO, as of June 2023, more than 2,700...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/gao-slams-bsee-and-boem-delays-on-offshore-decommissioning/
COLUMN | Tension: Chevron in Cyprus; Ørsted’s woes; Maersk Supply Service restructures; Borr’s Mexican receivables [Offshore Accounts]
Kylie Minogue has a new pop single out this week, called Tension, which is most appropriate. There’s tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, tension across the offshore wind industry, as another major operator takes a big write off, and tension in Maersk Supply Service, where 130 British staff face redundancy, the COO has been let go, […]
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VESSEL REVIEW | Voltaire – Large turbine installation vessel joins Jan De Nul fleet
COSCO Shipping Shipyard in Nantong, China, has handed over a new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) to the marine works provider the Jan De Nul Group. The Bureau Ver ..
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Offshore Projects News Roundup | October 7 – EPC and well intervention contracts in Europe, West Africa and North America
New installation works are in the pipeline in the UK North Sea, Mexico, and West Africa. Well intervention projects are meanwhile either underway or already completed in ..
Offshore Projects News Roundup | September 20 – Surveys in Europe and Australia, French and Taiwanese windfarm installations and more
Construction work progresses on wind farm projects in Taiwan and France as surveys are in the pipeline off Australia and Italy. Subsea installation works will be undertak ..
James Fisher, NMDC Group to collaborate on offshore projects
James Fisher and Sons and Abu Dhabi-based engineering and marine projects company the NMDC Group have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on k ..
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