“Batteries not included” are words that have ruined a million Christmases. Increasingly, however, containerised, lithium-ion battery packs are now included on OSVs to ..
Author: Hieronymus Bosch
This anonymous commentator is our insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations. With decades in the business and a raft of contacts, this is the go-to column for the behind-the-scenes wheelings and dealings of the volatile offshore market.
On September 26, 2019, the anchor handling tug Bourbon Rhode sank whilst sailing through the middle of Hurricane Lorenzo in the Atlantic whilst en route from a drydocking ..
COLUMN | Quick Updates: BP, Equinor, Edda, Wilhelmsen, Hornbeck, MAGE and Sevnor [Offshore Accounts]
For the last three weeks we have been distracted by the mania for offshore wind (here, here and here). So, too has BP’s visionary CEO Bernard Looney. He has announced ..
COLUMN | SBM, Sonangol and Unaoil: oil industry corruption goes on and on and on [Offshore Accounts]
Last week saw another big win in the Serious Fraud Office’s efforts to bring yet another perpetrator to justice in the UK as part of the prosecutions in the Unaoil ..
In Part One (here) we looked at how the biggest names in the offshore sector, Tidewater and Bourbon have drastically shrunk their fleets in the face of pressure from ..
“Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television,” advised American writer Gore Vidal. For Norwegians, he could also have added never to miss the ..
In July 2020, Regina Mayor, Global and US Head of Energy with KPMG recorded an interview with Quintin Kneen, President, CEO, and Director of Tidewater, which is available ..
King Julien, the Lemur leader in the cartoon franchise Madagascar, would be delighted. The ring-tailed primate famously liked to “move it, move it” (here). At last, ..
The American writer Gore Vidal said that, after age fifty, litigation replaces sex. A young company like MMA Offshore (founded in 1989) might want to stay out of the ..
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