Drill ships

Dr Ravi K Mehrotra led Foresight Group appoints Mr. Alok Jha as its Global Head of Drilling Business. 23rd December 2020 – London – Foresight Group, founded by London-based visionary…

Fugro awarded PETRONAS contract for positioning services in Guyana-Suriname Basin Fugro in the Caribbean has received a contract award from PETRONAS Suriname E&P B.V. (PSEPBV), a subsidiary of PETRONAS, for…

The wait is nearly over! Learn from ocean tech leaders at Oi Connect We are excited to give you a preview of some of the amazing session and speakers we…

Case Study: Preservation for drill ship during Market Downturn CASE STUDY: LEARN HOW BESPOKE PRESERVATION STRATEGY CAN BE APPLIED TO SHIPS DURING MARKET DOWNTURN OR LULL PERIODS You may have…

Jotun helps Odfjell Drilling position for success with Total Jotun is collaborating with Odfjell Drilling to provide an premium anti-fouling and topside coating solution for advanced drilling platform Deepsea Stavanger.…

The thriving world of Offshore Innovation THE AUTONOMOUS FUTURE OF OFFSHORE PLATFORMS Bureau Veritas is helping the offshore industry to develop a safer, more productive future with updated guidelines and…

Northern Drilling’s West Mira first rig to receive DNV GL Battery (Power) Notation Bergen/Hamburg, 8 November 2019: Northern Drilling’s West Mira is the first rig in operation to be awarded the DNV…

Aco Marine: Flat packed Clarimar retrofitted to Stena Don FLAT-PACK CLARIMAR SOLUTION OFFERS EASY ACCESS FOR DAMEN SHIPREPAIR DURING STENA DON REFIT ACO Marine has completed the installation and commissioning of a ClarimarMF-10 wastewater…

The BDI@2,064; a cause for CC …err Cautious Celebrations The BDI gained 53 points earlier on today and it’s only 173 points apart from that of the end of December…

Stena Drilling and DNV GL sign contract for first Cyber Secure class notation Oslo, 4 June 2019: Classification society DNV GL has signed a contract for the first Cyber Secure…

Mark Prendergast to retire from Harris PYE engineering group in May 2020 Mark Prendergast, Chief Executive Officer of Harris Pye Engineering Group, a Joulon company has announced that he is…

The oil & gas industry was plunged into turmoil when the oil price crashed in 2014. To get back on track, the industry has been forced to transform. It has been…

Fugro has commenced a marine site characterisation programme at Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm, in German waters of the Baltic Sea. Under a contract worth over €10 million, Fugro…

Fugro has won three contracts with BHP Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc., which see the company delivering a range of specialist services to support exploration and production operations in Trinidad and Tobago…

With the senior management team now in place and interest growing from potential customers, today the decommissioning joint venture reaches a new milestone with the launch of its new name.…

Launching their Offshore Preservation & Re-Activation Manual, Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) urge offshore industry players to take a second look at the cost of chemicals and necessary man-hours incurred by…

Høvik, 13 April 2018: DNV GL has revised its classification rules for Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) systems and introduced two new class notations DRILL(MPD) and DRILL(MPD READY). Stena Drilling Ltd. (SDL) is…

A 50:50 joint venture (JV) between Maersk Drilling and Maersk Supply Service will leverage the companies’ heritage of over 50 years of safe and efficient operations to provide decommissioning services…

Fugro is set to commence a site characterisation programme at the Hollandse Kust (noord) Wind Farm zone. Carried out under a further contract for the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO.nl, part…

Wärtsilä and Maersk Drilling create a joint 25-year strategy for thruster services to increase uptime and reduce costs Wärtsilä Corporation, 20 February 2018 at 10.30 a.m. EET The technology group…

Fugro has won a long-term contract for the provision of rig positioning services to Statoil Petroleum AS. The contract includes positioning of all the Statoil operated rigs on the Norwegian…

Fugro has been awarded contracts by Ørsted to undertake geotechnical investigations at two large-scale offshore wind development sites. Ørsted is pursuing the development of these two new projects – Bay…

Shipping Heavyweights congregate in Limassol for Maritime Cyprus 2017  Highlights from speeches and panel sessions on the third day of the conference  Today’s deliberations commenced with an address delivered by…

A rumour emerged in the market at the beginning of this week that Rowan Cos is in talks to acquire Maersk Drilling. Senior Offshore Analyst, Charlie Hockless, has provided some…

Analyst begins quarterly sector coverage by contrasting recent market optimism with the impact of rig utilisation rates on near-term earnings London, June 6, 2017. Maritime Strategies International (MSI), a leading…