Borr Drilling Archives - Baird Maritime

June 7, 2021

COLUMN | Prosafe and Floatel International: restructured but not safe yet? [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on June 7, 2021. Posted in Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Well Intervention, Work Boat World Features.

Last week, Norwegian floating accommodation provider Prosafe finally announced (here) some good news, albeit not for its shareholders, who are about to be wiped out. Like ..

February 1, 2021

COLUMN | A tale of restructuring: Keppel (kind of) quits the rig building business (but not really), Borr Drilling, Grupo R, Guangdong Zhenrong – Part One [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on February 1, 2021. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Headlines don’t tell the truth Last week saw a major strategic announcement from Keppel Offshore and Marine. Four or more separate publications, including the venerable ..

December 29, 2020

COLUMN | Christmas turkey: Borr Drilling [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 29, 2020. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Another Christmas Eve, another frantic effort from a struggling Norwegian offshore contractor to cobble together a deal with its creditors before the end of the year. A y ..

April 2, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – April 2, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on April 2, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Dive Support, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Standby, Rescue & Emergency Services, Subsea Surveying.

Much of the spotlight is on drilling vessels in this latest roundup of offshore charters. Interestingly, the newly awarded charters for such vessels has extended beyond E ..

January 25, 2021

COLUMN | Falling Knives and Walking Away: Sete Brasil, Petrobras, Keppel Corp., Knarr Drilling and Magni Partners [Part Two]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on January 25, 2021. Posted in Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Last week we looked here at how China State Shipbuilding Corporation has decided to restart work on a pair of unfinished deepwater drilling rigs in Shanghai Shipyard at t ..

December 23, 2020

COLUMN | The twelve days of offshore Christmas: Brent Crude, ammonia fuel cells, Myanmar, floating wind turbines, Bourbon, and Standard Drilling – Part Two [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 23, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

Not long until Christmas now! As the big day gets closer, you will have seen Esvagt, Swire, Seacor, Cairn Energy, Vantage and Shearwater featuring in Part One of our Twel ..

March 26, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – March 26, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on March 26, 2021. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Exploration, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Subsea Surveying, Well Intervention.

Offshore wind projects are maintaining momentum in the Far East and in Europe. However, the oil and gas segment has also been experiencing considerable activity as of lat ..

January 15, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – January 15, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on January 15, 2021. Posted in Crew Transfer, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Well Intervention.

Charters for offshore vessels are already on the rise this early in 2021, indicating the much anticipated growth of a resilient sector that is steadily overcoming the sco ..

December 8, 2020

COLUMN | Do it yourself: oil companies buy rigs and boats in bargain basement (except Energean) [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 8, 2020. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

Boat and rig prices fall. Oil and gas producers buy boats and rigs because they are so cheap. Oil and gas producers own and operate the cheap boats and rigs themselves ra ..