Petrobras Archives - Baird Maritime

March 19, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Charters Roundup – March 19, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on March 19, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Well Intervention.

Supply vessels have been seeing much of the action in the North Sea and off South America in this latest series of charter awards. The work is generally in support of var ..

February 5, 2021

COLUMN | The power and the plight of the whistle-blower [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on February 5, 2021. Posted in Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

“I assure you they are nothing more than criminals engaging in criminal stock market manipulation,” thundered a recent correspondent to Baird, following up on one of ..

December 22, 2020

DOF AHTS awarded Petrobras contract

Written by Baird Maritime on December 22, 2020. Posted in Anchor Handling.

Petrobras has awarded Norway’s DOF a contract for the anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel Skandi Rio to support exploration and production activities on the Br ..

February 26, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Orders and Deliveries Roundup – February 26, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on February 26, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Crew Transfer, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World.

Crewboats and processing platforms are the focus of the recent string of newbuilding orders and deliveries of offshore vessels. This time around, new deliveries are conce ..

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 21, 2020

COLUMN | The twelve days of offshore Christmas: Cairn Energy, Vantage Drilling, Esvagt, Shearwater, Swire and Seacor! – Part One [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on December 21, 2020. Posted in Anchor Handling, Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Crew Transfer, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Forget the partridge in the pear tree, the two turtle doves, and the five gold rings. Instead, the twelve days of this Christmas for the offshore sector have been packed ..

February 17, 2021

Shearwater GeoServices bags 3D OBN work for Petrobras

Written by Baird Maritime on February 17, 2021. Posted in Subsea Surveying.

Petrobras has awarded Shearwater GeoServices a contract for deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition for the Tupi and Iracema projects in the Santos Basin of ..

January 7, 2021

COLUMN | False economy: remote-controlled autonomous ships? [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on January 7, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Marine Projects, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore World, Subsea Surveying, Unmanned Craft (Non-Naval), Work Boat World Features.

The news that the bulk carrier Wakashio grounded off Mauritius and broke in two in August last year because the crew were navigating dangerously close to the shore in ord ..

December 10, 2020

Shearwater awarded Petrobras OBN 4D baseline survey

Written by Baird Maritime on December 10, 2020. Posted in Subsea Surveying.

Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded a contract for a large ocean bottom node (OBN) 4D Baseline survey over the Jubarte Field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil on be ..