Equatorial Guinea
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Offshore
Noble drillship bags two contracts in Africa
Offshore rig owner Noble Corporation has won two new deals for its Noble Venturer drillship offshore Africa. Following the early…
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Offshore
Petrofac bags $350m services deal in Equatorial Guinea
Offshore engineering specialist Petrofac has been awarded a technical services contract by Equatorial Guinea’s national oil company GEPetrol to support…
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Offshore
Trident Energy terminates deal for Island Drilling semisub
The contract for the rig, owned by Norwegian rig owner Island Drilling, has been terminated by Trident Energy over safety…
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Operations
Master and chief engineer kidnapped off Equatorial Guinea
The Tuvalu-registered 13,000 dwt tanker was boarded 45 nautical miles south of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea on January 1 with…
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Offshore
Nortrans Offshore seals accommodation contract with Exxon Mobil
Singapore-based Nortrans Offshore has landed a charter deal with Exxon Mobil for its accommodation support vessel in Equatorial Guinea. The…
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Tankers
Equatorial Guinea to send arrested VLCC and its crew back to Nigeria
The Marshall Islands-flagged very large crude carrier and its crew, arrested earlier this year by Equatorial Guinea forces over alleged…
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Piracy
LNG carrier crew member kidnapped in Equatorial Guinea
The 2003-built 138,000 cu m LNG carrier , owned by Golar LNG Partners, was boarded by pirates on Saturday while…
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Piracy
Three pirate attacks in one day off West Africa
Piracy attacks continue to proliferate off West Africa with three incidents reported in just one day. The tanker Yuan Qiu…
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Piracy
Two crew abducted from cargo ship off Equatorial Guinea
The 1993-built 8,900 dwt cargo ship was attacked by pirates off Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Saturday and two crew members…
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Asia
Swire Pacific anchor handler attacked off Equatorial Guinea, seven crew taken
Singapore-based offshore owner Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) has confirmed reports that 2002-built anchor handling tug supply vessel was attacked by…
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Europe
Maersk Drilling lands Equatorial Guinea drillship extension
Maersk Drilling has announced that 2014-built drillship has been signed by Kosmos Energy to drill the S-5 exploration well .…
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Europe
Boskalis heavy lift vessel hit by pirates off West Africa
Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis) revealed today that its heavy transport vessel was hijacked on Sunday around 80 nautical miles offshore…
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Gas
FLNG becoming ‘mainstream’ as Fortuna project presses ahead
The Fortuna FLNG project in Equatorial Guinea is moving ahead with Guvnor selected as the preferred LNG buyer. Guvnor has…
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Offshore
Gas venture targets Equatorial Guinea
Ophir Holdings & Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ophir Energy, and OneLNG, a joint venture between subsidiaries of Golar…
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