Shipping is full of oversize egos and oversize deals – who isn’t captivated by the struggle between the Saverys family and John Fredriksen for control...
Amid all the excitement of ADES (100 per cent owned by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia) buying over twenty jackup rigs for charter to Saudi...
Last week (here), we looked at the recovery of the drilling market, epitomised by the return to a public listing of Dolphin Drilling in Oslo on September...
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...
On November 10, drilling giants Noble Corporation and Maersk Drilling announced their merger (here). The new company will own 20 floaters and 19 jackups....
Question: What do the Formula One motor racing franchise, Heinz tomato ketchup, British supermarket chain Asda, and the North Sea safety standby companies...
There’s so much not to talk about this week. We’re not talking about Tidewater Earlier this month, industry leader Tidewater reported its quarterly...
For the end of the quarter, we feature a six-pack of updates on stories we covered recently. Eni (and Shell) acquitted over US$1 billion Nigerian corruption...
Charles Dickens offered only A Tale of Two Cities. This week, I offer a tale of no less than six restructurings, as the crisis in the offshore sector...
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