Last week Dutch survey giant Fugro declared war. The battle will be fought by an armada of unmanned vessels operated by remote satellite telemetry in every ocean of the ..
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.
Well, that came out of left field. When we last looked (here), the warm-stacked, deep-water drillship Vitoria 10000 had been reduced to clear by Petrobras in a second ..
Last month we pointed out here and here that the best place to see some of the big names in the offshore industry was the courtroom rather than at the conference podium. ..
There is an apocryphal tale that when the French Enlightenment philosopher and lottery scam-artist Voltaire was asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce Satan and ..
On the same day that a jury in New York convicted disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of two counts of criminal sexual acts, all eyes in offshore were on Houston, ..
In 2018, Anthony Mace, SBM Offshore’s former chief executive, was sentenced to three years in jail and fined US$150,000 fine by a Texas court for his role in the ..
When we wrote our first piece on the circular nature of events in the offshore industry, less than three weeks ago (here), we never expected that we’d be revisiting the ..
Readers with long memories (i.e. old ones) will recall that in 2000, the CEO of BP, John Browne, now Baron Browne of Madingley, vowed that the company’s initials would ..
If you want to meet the movers and the shakers of the offshore industry, you don’t need to pay big bucks to attend an expensive conference. Instead, you simply have to ..
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