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COLUMN | Four restructurings: Saipem saved, DOF goes to the line, Havila un-impairs and Siem surges, plus Maersk enters the wind turbine installation business! [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Anchor Handling, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

Whilst the Malaysian government dithers over how to rescue its domestic oilfield services powerhouse Sapura Energy after it reported a cash crunch and a loss of US$2.1 bi ..

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COLUMN | Biggest and still the best? ExxonMobil, Shell, TotalEnergies and Chevron (and the rest) boom [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

One of the joys of writing this column is that you can receive unvarnished feedback from readers, unaware of exactly who writes the pieces. This week, however, I am unlik ..

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COLUMN | Surprises from the war in Ukraine: BP in Mauritania, P&O Maritime, USM Holdings, Viking Supply Ships, Sevnor, OSM, PXGEO [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Anchor Handling, Boxship World, Dry Cargo World, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Seabed Mining, Ship World Features, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Last week (here) we looked at the impact of the horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine. Brent crude closed on Friday at US$118 per barrel. Russian artillery and missiles po ..

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COLUMN | Holland (and Belgium)’s glory: how the low countries are winning in offshore wind [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Dredging and Land Reclamation, Jackups/Liftboats, Maritime Infrastructure Development, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Salvage Operations, Work Boat World Features.

Holland’s Glorie is a novel published in 1940 by the Dutch writer Jan de Hartog. The novel glorified the life of the pre-war salvage master. In English, it was publishe ..

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COLUMN | “More money than God” – How will the supermajors spend their bumper profits? [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Anchor Handling, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

Last month, US President Joe Biden slammed ExxonMobil, complaining that the energy company made “more money than God”. “We’re gonna make sure that everybo ..

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COLUMN | More mistakes? Velesto, Shearwater, PXGEO and Polarcus, P&O Maritime Logistics, Bourbon Oceanteam and Boskalis, and James Fisher Subtech [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Anchor Handling, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Dive Support, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Last week we looked at mistakes – mistakes from lenders in Singapore to Swiber and KrisEnergy (here), and a terrible error of judgement that led to the capsizing and si ..

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