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 comes to a head. One ..
Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Jackups/Liftboats, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Seabed Mining, Standby, Rescue & Emergency Services, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.
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 comes to a head. One ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Seabed Mining.
The Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources has confirmed that the second round of trial mining of natural gas hydrates in the country’s territorial waters has been ..
Written by Ewen Levick on . Posted in Ausmarine - Maritime Security, Maritime Security World, Seabed Mining.
How might Beijing use its success in occupying the South China Sea as a template for expansion into the South Pacific? Although China’s growing presence in the South ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Seabed Mining.
Fincantieri and Saipem have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote the development of deep-seabed mining (DSM), i.e. the sustainable exploitation of ..
Written by Hieronymus Bosch on . Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.
Well, that came out of left field. When we last looked (here), the warm-stacked, deep-water drillship Vitoria 10000 had been reduced to clear by Petrobras in a second ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Seabed Mining.
Damen Shipyards Group has cut the first steel for a new crawler diamond recovery vessel ordered by De Beers Marine Namibia.
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Engines & Propulsion Systems, Seabed Mining.
ABB has been awarded a contract by Damen Shipyards Group for the delivery of an advanced power system for the world’s first custom-built diamond recovery vessel. In ..
Written by Andrew Baird on . Posted in Seabed Mining, Work Boat World Features.
For those who don’t know of Sanya, it is a city on the South coast of the Chinese island of Hainan which sits at the northern end of the South China Sea, not far ..
Written by Baird Maritime on . Posted in Seabed Mining.
Solstad Offshore has been awarded a contract with Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) for the construction support vessel Normand Reach.
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