Vantage Drilling Archives - Baird Maritime

January 18, 2021

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 January 18, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Commercial Mariner – Vessel Reviews, 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 ..

May 20, 2019

COLUMN | Topaz Energy and Marine’s bumper profits: when something looks too good to be true, it probably is [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on May 20, 2019. Posted in Offshore World.

The first quarter was another miserable one for the offshore sector, as across the board marine and drilling companies lost money. Both Vantage Drilling and Noble ..

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 ..

May 5, 2019

DSME sells Cobalt Explorer to Northern Drilling

Written by Baird Maritime on May 5, 2019. Posted in Offshore Drilling & Extraction.

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) is set to deliver a newbuild drillship to a Bermuda-based Northern Drilling.

July 27, 2020

COLUMN | The Eastern Mediterranean: a sea of troubles [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on July 27, 2020. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Work Boat World Features.

Hamlet famously asked, “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles”. ..