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Harvey Gulf CEO to Remain Until 2027

Feb 10, 2020

New Orleans based offshore vessels company Harvey Gulf International Marine said it has signed an agreement with its CEO, Shane Guidry, to remain at Harvey until January 1, 2027.Guidry commented, “Over the past several years, Harvey Gulf has…

Europe Leads Global Activity Surge

Feb 10, 2020

A slew of reports so far this year suggest a confluence of the right factors for a strong, sustained surge in contracting activity — especially in drilling — seems to be developing, at least in Europe.Several indicators were in January pointing to key some snowballing of new activity…

ROVOP Launches In-house Inspection Service

Feb 10, 2020

Subsea robotics firm ROVOP announced the addition of full in-house inspection service, to complement its range of underwater robotics technologies.With a fleet of 51 remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV) including work class, light work class and observation class…

RigNet's Comms Solutions for Northern Offshore Jack-Ups

Feb 10, 2020

RigNet, Offshore communications, and networking solutions provider has signed a long-term services agreement with offshore drilling contractor Northern Offshore.Under the deal, RigNet will provide several solutions including VSAT Managed Communications Services…

Diamond Offshore's 4Q Loss Narrows. Revenue Up

Feb 10, 2020

Offshore Drilling company Diamond Offshore posted a net loss of $74 million for the fourth quarter of 2019.The result is an improvement compared to a loss of $79 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, and also compared to the third quarter 2019 loss of $95 million…

Azerbaijan to Produce More Gas, Less Oil in 2020

Feb 10, 2020

Azerbaijan plans to increase natural gas production this year, but slightly lower oil production due to the level of existing reserves, the vice president of state energy company SOCAR said in an interview. Yashar Latifov told Reuters the country planned to produce 38…

Carimin's Accommodation Workboat for Petronas Carigali

Feb 10, 2020

Malaysia's Petronas Carigali has signed a long-term charter deal with Carimin Marine Services for the provision of an accommodation workboat.Carimin said that Monday that the contract, signed January 21, would keep the offshore accommodation unit busy for almost two years (716 days…

Aker Energy Taps Fugro for Pecan Field Survey in Ghana

Feb 10, 2020

Aker Energy, a Norwegian oil company working to develop its Pecan field, offshore Ghana, has hired the Dutch offshore survey specialist Fugro to examine the seabed at the location ahead of the further Pecan infrastructure planning.The Pecan…

Thai Offshore Vessel Operator Enters UK North Sea Sector

Feb 10, 2020

Thai offshore service provider Mermaid Maritime is eyeing an expansion into the UK North Sea sector.The company said Sunday it had set up an indirect subsidiary Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) Limited on February 7.The MSS UK is owned by Mermaid's subsidiary Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand)…

Somalia President Signs New Oil Bill into Law

Feb 10, 2020

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has signed landmark petroleum legislation into law to help open up a new frontier market, the oil ministry said on Saturday. The upper house of Somalia’s parliament in January approved the petroleum…

Cooper Energy Sells More Casino Henry Gas to O-I

Feb 10, 2020

ASX-listed Cooper Energy has signed a new gas supply agreement with O-I, an industrial gas user and Australia’s largest manufacturer of glass container products.The gas is to be supplied from Cooper's equity share of production from its Casino Henry operations offshore Victoria…

Oil Slides Lower on China Demand, OPEC+ Cuts Worries

Feb 10, 2020

Oil prices slipped lower on Monday as traders assessed China's oil demand following the coronavirus outbreak and waited to see if major producers will cut output further to balance markets. Oil is off more than 20% from peaks struck in January…

Tower Wraps Thali Survey Off Cameroon

Feb 10, 2020

Africa-focused oil company Tower Resources has completed a geotechnical survey at its Thali license offshore Cameroon, ahead of the planned drilling operations later this year.'The Geoquip Marine survey vessel MV Investigator completed its survey…

Eni Charters KNOT Shuttle Tanker Pair

Feb 10, 2020

Italian oil firm Eni has signed an agreement with tanker operator Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers (KNOT) to charter two newbuild shuttle tankers.Shuttle tankers are used to offload oil from offshore platformsSouth Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering will build the two 124…

ProCon Bags More Yunlin Work

Feb 09, 2020

ProCon Wind Energy, the provider electrical systems to the offshore wind industry, has secured further work on the electrical construction of the Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan.The Denmark's offshore wind business player was awarded…

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