North Sea Archives - Baird Maritime

January 21, 2022

Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – January 21, 2022

Written by Baird Maritime on January 21, 2022. Posted in Anchor Handling, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Crew Transfer, Dive Support, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply.

Offshore vessel operators welcome the new year with new work on behalf of clients, mainly in the installation and IMR segments. The charters are for activities in Western ..

January 6, 2022

UECC’s third battery hybrid PCTC launched in China

Written by Baird Maritime on January 6, 2022. Posted in PCTC World.

Jiangnan Shipyard in China has launched the final ship in a series of three pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) ordered by United European Car Carriers (UECC). Like its e ..

December 20, 2021

COLUMN | Days Five to Eight of Offshore Christmas: Hydrogen and CMB; Swire Pacific Offshore, Sanko and K-Line; Brent Crude; Ammonia, Eidesvik, Fortescue and MMA Offshore [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 20, 2021. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Not long until Christmas now! As the big day gets closer, you will have seen Cairn Capricorn Energy, Vantage Drilling, North Star, Vard and Shearwater featuring in Part O ..

January 19, 2022

Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – January 19, 2022

Written by Baird Maritime on January 19, 2022. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Offshore Construction, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore World, Subsea Surveying.

Recently awarded and ongoing projects in the pipeline focus on the subsea installation/removal and acquisition works with the geographical scope currently on Europe, Aust ..

December 29, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – December 29, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on December 29, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply.

Norwegian platform supply vessel (PSV) operators have secured for themselves a considerable chunk of the recent succession of awarded charters. The contracted deployments ..

December 13, 2021

COLUMN | The First Four Days of Christmas 2021: Cairn/Capricorn, Vantage Drilling, North Star and Vard, Shearwater and Shell [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 13, 2021. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Last year we took an offshore take to the familiar Twelve Days of Christmas carol (here) and (here). So, now it is time to revisit the first four festive players, and cat ..

January 10, 2022

COLUMN | Drilling Update: Borr, Vantage/ADES, Stena/Samsung, Adnoc Drilling, Maersk, and Standard not Drilling [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on January 10, 2022. Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

Time for a six pack of updates on the biggest offshore drilling stories of the last few weeks. Whilst three autonomous marine survey companies and one of Australia’s la ..

December 27, 2021

COLUMN | The last four of the twelve days of Christmas: Myanmar’s misery, floating wind’s progress, Bourbon’s revival, P&O Maritime’s hubris, and Standard Drilling’s transformation [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 27, 2021. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Ausmarine Vessel Reviews, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Commercial Mariner – Vessel Reviews, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Exploration, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas – unless, of course, you are of the Orthodox faith, in which case you have to wait until January 7 for Christmas. This week, we clos ..

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December 7, 2021

VESSEL REVIEW | MHO Asgard – Danish-owned fast crewboat pair to serve Hornsea Two wind farm

Written by Baird Maritime on December 7, 2021. Posted in Crew Transfer, Offshore Wind, Work Boat World Vessel Reviews.

Danish shipping company MHO-Co has taken delivery of two new catamaran crewboats in a series from AFAI Southern Shipyard in Guangzhou, China. Sister vessels MHO Asgard an ..