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Aker Energy has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Yinson to award a bareboat charter and an operations and maintenance contract for a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel at the Pecan field, offshore Ghana. The LOI follows a competitive tender and demonstrates Aker Energy’s intention to award the forthcoming bareboat charter and... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris booked a bigger quarterly loss as its revenues declined due to fewer rig operating days. Valaris on Thursday reported a net loss attributable to the company of $216 million for fourth quarter 2019 compared to a net loss of $197 million in the third quarter 2019. Revenues declined to $512 million... Continue Reading →
Singapore’s offshore rig builder Sembcorp Marine posted a bigger loss for 2019 when compared to 2018. Quarterly, the company went from black to the red as its revenues dropped by 32% amid low activity levels. Sembcorp Marine on Thursday posted a net loss of S$137 million for the 12 months ended December 31, 2019, compared... Continue Reading →
In another sign of improving deepwater market conditions, drillship day rates are on-the-rise from Canada to China, judging by a new report by numbers crunchers, Rystad Energy. Although not the only deepwater floaters, drillships are still on order at Asian shipyards, just as drillship day rates approach the $300,000 mark. Continue reading
Norwegian marine survey company EMGS is looking at options after Mexico's Pemex said it wouldn't award any more work "in the medium future" under a contract announced in 2019. EMGS expects the decision will have a "material detrimental effect" on its business. "Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA...has been advised by the customer that the company will not,... Continue Reading →
Global classification society and digital solutions provider DNV GL has teamed up with MSC, a provider of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) simulation software and services, to improve the productivity of engineers working on maritime and offshore engineering projects. The team-up is set to increase the productivity of engineers using DNV GL’s Sesam design and simulation software... Continue Reading →
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has managed to keep its net loss flat in the last quarter of 2019 while its revenues increased during the period. Noble Corp. CEO is getting ready to transition to the role of an executive chairman. Noble Corporation today reported a net loss attributable to the company for the three... Continue Reading →
The market for floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) is heating up. Séverine Baudic, SBM Offshore’s Managing Director for Floating Production Solutions, weighs in on the strategic initiatives and technological innovations helping the company to secure contracts for some of the world’s most complex deepwater projects. When it comes to reducing lead times and... Continue Reading →
February 19, 2019 According to an executive of the JV with Petrobras, goal is to increase the recovery factor of the largest field in the country Petrobras should drill at least ten new wells in the Lula field, in the Santos Basin, said Galp's Upstream Operations director, Thore E. Kristiansen, during a conference with analysts... Continue Reading →
Digitalization has revolutionized the world, and hydrographic survey techniques are no exception. While advances in mechanical design have enabled the survey of increasingly remote locations, electronics and digital processing techniques have dramatically increased resolution. Where once a few spot soundings were considered enough to make a chart, today’s survey vessels generate vast amounts of data... Continue Reading →
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