Tag: Transocean

COLUMN | Prosafe and Floatel International: restructured but not safe yet? [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Well Intervention, Work Boat World Features.

Last week, Norwegian floating accommodation provider Prosafe finally announced (here) some good news, albeit not for its shareholders, who are about to be wiped out. Like ..

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COLUMN | “Oops!… I did it again” – Transocean, Saipem, Northern Drilling, Swire Pacific Offshore and Ocean Infinity [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Anchor Handling, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Tugs and Operations, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Salvage Operations, Subsea Surveying, Unmanned Craft (Non-Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Pop star Britney Spears was so right when she warned of the dangers of repetition (here). Recent weeks in the offshore industry have seen several major players are doing ..

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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 | A tale of restructuring: Keppel (kind of) quits the rig building business (but not really), Borr Drilling, Grupo R, Guangdong Zhenrong – Part One [Offshore Accounts]

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

Headlines don’t tell the truth Last week saw a major strategic announcement from Keppel Offshore and Marine. Four or more separate publications, including the venerable ..

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COLUMN | The deals are on! – Rigs, boats and jackups start to change hands [Offshore Accounts]

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

Summer is usually a quiet time for deals, when investment bankers retreat to their villas in the south of France, Norwegian shipowners retire to their family chalets for ..

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COLUMN | Do it yourself, Gulf style: Middle Eastern states invest in offshore oilfield services companies [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Anchor Handling, Crew Transfer, Dive Support, Dry Cargo World, Gas Tanker World, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Construction, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore Tugs and Operations, Offshore World, Pilotage, Platform Supply, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

In Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, public investment by petro-states is increasingly focused on squeezing out private sector businesses in oilfield services, especially ..

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COLUMN | Falling knives and walking away: drilling contractors, Chinese yards, Korean cast-offs, Northern Drilling, SinoOcean and the Tiger rigs – Part One [Offshore Accounts]

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

Sometimes it is not only easier to walk away, but actually better The deepwater drilling industry is in crisis, as you know. In 2020, four major owners of deepwater rigs ..

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