The floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Liza Unity operated by Netherlands-based SBM Offshore has been awarded the first REMOTE-CON notation for an FPSO from ABS. The notation demonstrates the vessel’s alignment with remote-control functions and signifies that the design and...
Lady Gaga famously sang that she was “on the edge of glory”. This week, we look at four companies on the edge of….well, something. Let’s check in on two construction companies, a subsea mining venture, and our favourite wind turbine installer. McDermott on the edge Finally, a judge in the UK has...
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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This week was a great week for Transocean – the company announced it had secured a three-year award for the newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Aquila with Petrobras for work offshore Brazil starting next year on a day rate of around US$443,000 plus 90 days’ worth of mobilisation fees. In 2021, Transocean bought the rig for […]
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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 ..
This Easter, after looking at three companies that experienced miracles last week, we move to an entire country that stands on the cusp of a miraculous transformation: Na ..
Classification society DNV has awarded approval in principle (AiP) to SBM Offshore, the Dutch-based […]
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Ah, the beauty of summer in the northern hemisphere, a time to spend hours queuing at Dover or Folkestone if you are British, or waiting endlessly at security at Schiphol ..
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ABS has issued a new publication outlining industry best practices for addressing the safety challenges posed by an aging global floating production storage and offloadin ..
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