Tag: Saudi Aramco

COLUMN | Quick updates: Arabian Drilling and Schlumberger, Noble takes Maersk whilst Tullow is jilted by Capricorn for NewMed [Offshore Accounts]

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

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 Aramco, and with AR ..

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COLUMN | Singapore spin hits Cayman secrecy? Temasek, Keppel, Baluran and Kyanite’s US$2.9 billion drilling rig deal is very hard to follow [Offshore Accounts]

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

It’s the biggest offshore rig deal of 2022, and it is the most confusing by far. The complexities of the deal scream out why more transparency is needed in corporate di ..

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COLUMN | Riding the rollercoaster (again): ARO, Deep Value Driller, Dolphin, UDS, MEO and Uniwise [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Marine Projects, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Crew Transfer, Dive Support, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

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 15. A few days l ..

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COLUMN | The cash comes back to offshore: the North Sea lives again, Canada gets drilling, rigs are revived [Offshore Accounts]

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

After last week’s review of the Tullow/Capricorn merger, and the news that Shell and its partners are proceeding with the Crux project to provide new offshore gas for e ..

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COLUMN | What goes around comes around: Mermaid Maritime grows, Ultra Deep Solutions shrinks, whilst ADES and Tidewater close purchases [Offshore Accounts]

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

Ultra Deep Solutions (UDS), the Singapore based commercial diving company, formerly boasted of operating five of the shiniest and most prestigious dive support vessels (D ..

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COLUMN | There’s a price to be paid: ADES, Seadrill, and Icon jackup rigs; Sapura; Adnoc Drilling, Aban and others; Saipem and Lukoil [Offshore Accounts]

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

Eighteen months ago, we highlighted (here) the transformation of the Middle Eastern oilfield services market as big, state-owned players in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, an ..

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COLUMN | Saudi Aramco surpasses Apple – and hires 26 more jackup drilling rigs and dozens of extra offshore vessels! [Offshore Accounts]

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

This month Saudi Arabian state oil company Saudi Aramco surpassed Apple as the world’s most valuable company. The world’s biggest oil producer is now the world’s bi ..

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