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Middle East
ADES secures seven-year jackup extension in Saudi Arabia
Egyptian offshore driller ADES International has successfully renewed a contract for 1980-built jackup rig . Operating in Saudi Arabia, the…
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Europe
Noble Corp wins new drillship and jackup contracts
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has announced several new contracts and extensions in its latest fleet status report. 2014-built drillship Noble…
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Europe
Nordic American Offshore awarded new PSV contract
Nordic American Offshore (NAO), fresh from being taken over by Emanuele Lauro’s Scorpio Group, has been awarded a contract for…
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Europe
Scorpio Bulkers fixes ultramax
Emanuele Lauro’s Scorpio Bulkers has announced that is has fixed 2016-built ultramax bulker out on time charter. The charter, with…
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Europe
Thenamaris set to pocket over $8m on kamsarmax flip
Greece’s Thenamaris is said to have sold 2012-built Daewoo kamsarmax bulker for in excess of $20m to a buyer in…
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Asia
FSL plans vessels sales to fund newbuild product tanker pair
Singapore’s First Ship Lease Trust (FSL) has signed contracts with Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry for the construction of two scrubber-fitted…
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Middle East
Adnoc loads LPG and propylene onto the same vessel in landmark shipment
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) this week completed the first co-loading of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and propylene onto…
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Americas
Petrobras to cut more than 50 jobs from Houston office
Having closed a deal with Murphy Oil to form a Gulf of Mexico joint venture earlier this month, Brazilian energy…
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Americas
McDermott and Baker Hughes selected for Equus Gas Project
McDermott International and GE’s Baker Hughes (BHGE) have signed an MOU with Australia’s Western Gas Corporation to be the exclusive…
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Europe
Norway blasts Transocean, Maersk Drilling and Odfjell Drilling over lifeboat deficiencies
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has told Transocean, Maersk Drilling and Odfjell Drilling to improve the conditions of their enclosed…
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Europe
Magseis awarded North Sea survey contract
Norwegian seismic specialist Magseis says it is finalising a contract with an unnamed client for a 4D seabed seismic acquisition…
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Europe
Navig8 Chemical Tankers seals double sale and leaseback with AVIC
Navig8 Chemical Tankers has sold two 37,000 dwt product tankers to China’s AVIC International Leasing and will charter them back…
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Europe
Shearwater GeoServices awarded new projects
Offshore seismic specialist Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded two new projects in the Arabian Sea. Eni Oman in partnership with…
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Europe
Diana Shipping gets new charter for panamax bulker
Greek dry bulk owner Diana Shipping has sealed a new charter for 2013-built panamax . The vessel will go out…
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Contributions
Maritime awards: keeping publishers afloat
Two years ago, I wrote an opinion piece on this site headlined ‘Maritime awards: it’s time the industry woke up’.…
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Europe
Global Ship Lease fixes two more boxships to CMA CGM
Global Ship Lease has chartered out two boxships to CMA CGM for a period of five years. The 2015-built 6,882…
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Americas
OSG extends charters of nine tankers from American Shipping Company
Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has exercised options to extend the bareboat charters of nine handysize product tankers it has on…
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Europe
BW Offshore sells FSO for recycling
BW Offshore has signed an agreement to sell 1980-built FSO for recycling. Belokamenka, a 360,700 dwt ultra large crude carrier,…
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Asia
NYK adds two more LNG carriers at Samsung for Total charter
Japan’s NYK has ordered a pair of 174,000 cu m LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries as part of a…
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Asia
Swissco offloading 25 vessels to Allianz Middle East
Singapore’s Swissco, currently under judicial management, has agreed to sell the majority of its fleet of vessels to Allianz Middle…
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