A rebuilt floating processing unit has been handed over to a Greek owner while a Dutch operator places orders for additional renewables support vessels. Designs have meanwhile been selected for crewboats for a UK customer and jackup barges that will be deployed in the Middle East. Converted FSRU...
Rarely in life do you get a second chance. But since we are almost Back to December, it is time to revisit that vintage Taylor Swift classic, where the singer describes how she messed up a relationship and begs for another chance. With that attitude, she could stand for president of Argentina and...
Deliveries include a floating LNG liquefaction vessel and an exploration platform that will operate in support of the Chinese offshore wind market. A Chinese yard floats out a new cable-laying vessel with an innovative trenching system. Finally, a Taiwanese wind farm operator will add a second walk-to-work vessel to its fleet. Golar LNG acquires floating […]
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According to his carefully edited Wikipedia entry, Evangelos Marinakis “is a Greek media mogul, shipowner, lyricist, and member of the Piraeus city council. He is the founder and owner of Capital Maritime and Trading Corporation and also the owner of the football clubs Olympiacos in Greece and Nottingham Forest in England.” And now he is […]
In the ten months since we last ran a country feature on Indonesia, a lot has happened in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, which also happens to be the world’s third largest democracy, and the world’s biggest coal exporter by volume. As an aside, China is the world’s largest coal producer, but uses nearly […]
One of the delights of the offshore market recovery has been the surge in charter rates for platform supply vessels (PSVs) around the world. Tidewater’s triumphant presentation at the Barclays CEO Energy Conference earlier this month showed the potency of the market recovery that the company has driven ever onwards and upwards after its acquisition […]
Best FPU – Vito RPF – Seatrium Floating production units (FPUs) are highly complex examples of the shipbuilder’s art. This particular vessel shows why Seatrium (formerly Sembcorp) is a leader in the FPU sector. This vessel should be a harbinger of better times to come in the offshore oil and gas...
Who said that August was a month for relaxing by the beach? No book reviews for your sun lounger this year. Instead, we plunge into the results reporting season and an analysis of some of the recent deals in the offshore sector. Valaris exercises bargain Korean options The drillers are in a sweet...
It has been a rollercoaster couple of months for seabed mining pioneer The Metals Company. For most of the last year, the company’s share price languished below one ..
When we covered the gross injustice of the case of Heroic Idun, where the 26-strong crew of a tanker were detained in Nigeria for many months on trumped up charges until ..