Dutch marine services and towage company KOTUG has agreed to buy offshore support vessel firm Seaways International, in what is the largest acquisition in KOTUG's history.KOTUG said the move, of an undisclosed value, was part of its strategy…
MR Deepwater Subsea, part of the MR Group, has partnered up with Offshore Technical Compliance (OTC) to offer real-time, monitoring, digital pressure testing and BOP Compliance services. Mike Fry, Director of MR Deepwater Subsea, explained that…
The International Marine Contractors Association has suspended its Russian members from the association over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.IMCA CEO Allen Leatt said: 'We are all deeply saddened at IMCA by the events unfolding in Ukraine and the…
Modern American Recycling Services, Inc. (M.A.R.S.) has acquired the DP3 diving support construction vessel “Caballo Marango” and will rename the vessel to 'Captain America.''The acquisition of this vessel represents a substantial investment…
Tidal energy firm Nova Innovation is set to receive an £800,000 investment from the UK Government, through the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund, to develop a low-cost, rapid turbine deployment and recovery solution that could unlock 100GW of tidal energy resources worldwide…
Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power Co Inc and German utility RWE have agreed to jointly study the feasibility of a large-scale floating wind project off the Japanese coast, the companies said on Monday.Japan's offshore power market is expected…
The top executive for oilfield services firm Halliburton Co earned roughly $10 million more in 2020 than the prior year, despite company pledges to reduce executive pay as the coronavirus pandemic crushed the oil industry, according to a regulatory document filed on Tuesday…
Inpex Corp said on Friday it expects to shed jobs at its Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia due to the slump in oil prices, but did not say how many would go.The cuts by Japan's biggest oil and gas company mark the latest…
A video has emerged online showing a wind turbine blade knocking an offshore installation vessel's gangway into the sea.The incident happened on July 2, at the under-construction Otary-operated SeaMade wind farm offshore Belgium, with no injuries to personnel reported…
Following the recent installation of the first offshore wind turbine generator at the Seamade offshore wind project in Belgium, the turbine has now started producing electricity.SeaMade is a 487,2 MW offshore wind concession in the Belgian North Sea…
ABS, a classification services provider to the marine and offshore industries, will provide classification for a series of 'highly innovative Self-Elevating Drilling Units (SEDU)' for Silver Eagle Global.Silver Eagle, of Manama, Bahrain, says…
There were 270 offshore drilling rigs in the world actively drilling for oil and gas in February 2020, a slight increase compared to January 2020 (at 268), but also a slight dip versus February 2019 (at 272). This is according to Baker Hughes' February rig counts…
The Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and Schlumberger introduce the Egypt Upstream Gateway, a unique and innovative national project for digitizing subsurface information and delivering a digital subsurface platform to ensure Egypt's subsurface data is kept evergreen…
U.S. oil major Chevron slumped to a $6.6 billion quarterly loss compared to 4Q 2019 $3.7 billion profit, citing previously announced impairments on several projects.'Included in the [4Q 2019] were previously announced upstream impairments and write-offs totaling $10…
There were 282 offshore drilling rigs actively exploring for or developing oil or natural gas worldwide in December 2019.This is an increase of 22 offshore drilling rigs compared to December 2018, according to Baker Hughes' weekly rig count report issued earlier this week…
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