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ABS Selected By Woodside For Asset Base Classification and Verification
ABS has been selected by Woodside Energy Ltd, Australia’s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company, to provide classification and verification…
The FPU Market Is Primed To Produce
According to a study just completed by IMA, 121 floating production systems are in operation or available. This is an increase of approximately 90 percent over the…
Diamond Offshore’s Utilization and Dayrates Increase
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. operates contract drilling of offshore oil and gas wells. The company conducts deepwater drilling with a fleet of 45 offshore rigs.
Seabulk International: The Metamorphosis Continues
Over four decades ago, Hans J. Hvide and three partners formed Port Everglades Towing Company, the predecessor company of Hvide Marine, started with two harbor tugs.
KMSS Appoints New President
Per Branstad, has completed his 2 year assignment to organize and integrate the three companies which together now comprise an important part of Kongsberg’s Marine and Offshore Operations.
Brazillian Yard Preps To Ride Offshore Wave
As ship and boatyards in the Gulf of Mexico eagerly await 'Offshore Boom 2001,' it might behoove them to look at activities transpiring outside of their own backyard…
Three News Suspects Arrested In Cole Case
Police in Yemen have arrested three new suspects in the bombing of the American warship USS Cole in which 17 U.S. sailors were killed last year, a Yemeni government weekly said.
Keppel Aquires Verolme Botlek
Keppel Corporation Limited, through its offshore and marine division, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has completed the acquisition of the entire interest…
Global Offshore Pipeline Market by Region 1997-2006
The installation of almost 50,000 km of pipeline is forecast over the next five years in the new second edition of The World Offshore Pipelines and Umbilicals Report 2002-2006…
GlobalSantaFe SCORE Shows Improvement
Houston-based worldwide oil and gas drilling contractor GlobalSantaFe Corporation reported that the company's worldwide SCORE, or Summary of Current Offshore Rig Economics…
OTAL’s North Africa Feeder Service Hailed a Success
OT Africa Line (OTAL), the specialist West African shipping line, has undergone service schedule restructuring as from mid June of this year: 80 percent of its African…
Geoconsult Takes Delivery of HUGIN 3000-GC
HUGIN 3000-GC is the second commercial AUV delivered by Kongsberg Simrad. Geoconsult, a company based in Norway that performs seabed mapping, ROV services, and subsea…
OTAL to Move its Port Operations in Amsterdam
OT Africa Line (OTAL ) is to move its port operations in Amsterdam from the Ceres Amsterdam Marine Terminal to the USA Terminal, a new deep sea terminal and multimodal…
Maine Maritime Academy to Host International Symposium
Maine Maritime Academy will host the 3rd General Assembly of the International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) in late September at the Samoset Resort on the Ocean in Rockport…
Navy Secretary Assigns New Ship Name
At a ceremony held Saturday, September 7, at 9:30 a.m. Transport Dock ships, "New York," to honor the state, the city and the victims of September 11. The Secretary was joined by New York Gov.
Global Offshore Industry Capex – Key Sectors ($ million)
The offshore industry should enjoy steady growth over the next five years and the longer-term prospects are looking even better as the potential for higher oil prices grows.
GlobalSantaFe SCORE Shows Continued Worldwide Market Weakness
GlobalSantaFe Corporation reported that the company's worldwide SCORE, or Summary of Current Offshore Rig Economics, for August 2002 was down from the previous month's SCORE by 4.5 percent.
Horizon Offshore Secures First Contract in West Africa
Horizon Offshore, Inc. in association with its Nigerian affiliate, Horizon Offshore (Nigeria) Ltd., has been awarded a portion of Chevron Nigeria Ltd.'s Escravos…
New Cargo Ship for Lake Tanganyika Launched In Burundi
At 12,700 square miles (32,890 sq km) in area, Lake Tanganyika is the second largest in Africa. It is larger than North America’s Lake Eire (9,910 sq. mi.) and over half the size of Lake Michigan (22…
Singapore To Hold International Bunkering Conference
The 12th Singapore International Bunkering Conference (SIBCON) 2002, to be held from September 26-28, 2002 at the Shangri-La, Singapore, will be officially opened by Mr Khaw Boon Wan…
Maritime Piracy
Houthi Rockets Wreak Havoc on Middle East Container Shipping
Narco-Submarines: The Hidden Depths of Drug Trafficking
Drug Smuggling on Ships and Submarines: An Escalating Threat
Maersk revises profit forecast upwards due to robust demand and disruptions in the Red Sea.
Global Shipping Carriers Are Feeling the Impact of the War in Ukraine and the Middle East
Maritime Piracy in the Horn of Africa:
Houthis Declare All-Out War on Israeli Shipping, Vowing to Strike Beyond Red Sea
Injustice at Sea: Greek Court Drops Charges in Deadly Migrant Shipwreck
