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Rowan Companies awarded Guyana jackup contract

December 19th, 20180 US offshore driller Rowan Companies, currently in the middle of a $12bn combination with Ensco, has been awarded a one-well contract for 2009-built jackup rig . The...

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Haiphong gets first direct link to US

December 19th, 20180 Northern Vietnam is getting its first direct container link with the US. THE Alliance has unveiled its service offerings for next year. Among key changes, the revised...

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Toyota invests in autonomous shipping

December 18th, 20180 Japan’s largest car manufacturer has put money towards developing autonomous ships. Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics announced yesterday that it has closed a $10m...

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Woodside awards SNE FEED contract to OneSubsea, Schlumberger and Subsea 7

December 18th, 20180 An alliance of OneSubsea, Schlumberger and Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Woodside for front-end engineering design (FEED) activities at the SNE...

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Qatar Petroleum buys into three Eni fields offshore Mexico

December 17th, 20180 Qatar Petroleum entered into an agreement with Italy’s Eni to acquire a 35% interest in three Mexican offshore oil fields in Campeche Bay. The agreement sees the...

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Concord Maritime tanker pool up and running with Atlas and Emarat vessels

December 14th, 20180 Tanker commercial management firm Concord Maritime, launched in April by Ben Ognibene, has revealed the make-up of its Dakota Tankers Aframax Pool following the addition...

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Blackstone, KKR and Macquarie reportedly interested in taking over OOCL’s Long Beach facility

December 14th, 20181 Bloomberg is reporting a host of parties are interested in buying the OOCL terminal in Long Beach that Cosco has put up for sale as part of an agreement to get US...

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Maersk Broker buys into NAODAN Chartering

December 14th, 20180 Maersk Broker is rapidly consolidating on the dry side of its business. Earlier this week Splash reported that Maersk Broker Bulk Chartering had taken over Wonsild Dry....

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Petrobras to cut more than 50 jobs from Houston office

December 13th, 20180 Having closed a deal with Murphy Oil to form a Gulf of Mexico joint venture earlier this month, Brazilian energy major Petrobras is set to cut more than 50 jobs in its...

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McDermott and Baker Hughes selected for Equus Gas Project

December 13th, 20180 McDermott International and GE’s Baker Hughes (BHGE) have signed an MOU with Australia’s Western Gas Corporation to be the exclusive development partners for the...

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Tampa gets first direct link with Asia

December 12th, 20180 The fast changing scene on the North American eastern seaboard is welcoming another voyage debut with news of a first direct link to Asia for Florida’s Port of...

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OSG extends charters of nine tankers from American Shipping Company

December 11th, 20180 Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG) has exercised options to extend the bareboat charters of nine handysize product tankers it has on charter from Aker’s American...

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Vantage Drilling jackup gets Cameroon work with Tower Resources

December 10th, 20180 US offshore driller Vantage Drilling has been awarded a contract by Tower Resources for the 2009-built jackup rig to provide drilling operations offshore...

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MSC pays emissions fine in California

December 7th, 20180 Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has been forced to pay $630,625 in penalties to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for violating the Ocean-Going Vessel...

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CN vows to shake up eastern seaboard with Halifax port investment

December 6th, 20181 Canadian National Railway has put in a preliminary joint bid to buy the largest shipping terminal in eastern Canada, with a view of stealing some of New York’s...

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ExxonMobil exercises options on Rowan drillship

December 4th, 20180 US-based offshore driller Rowan Companies has announced that ExxonMobil has exercised two options for 2015-built drillship . The options are each for around 30 days...

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Murphy Oil and Petrobras seal Gulf of Mexico joint venture

December 4th, 20180 Murphy Oil subsidiary Murphy Exploration & Production Company and Petrobras America have closed a deal to form a Gulf of Mexico joint venture. Both companies have...

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Greeks dominate another bumper year of S&P deals

Holger Strack to lead Zeaborn Ship Management as Nils Aden and Isabelle Rickmers depart

Transport Capital taps former NordLB shipping head

Concordia Maritime pockets over $5m from suezmax play

McKeil Marine becomes the world's newest tanker owner

Rowan Companies awarded Guyana jackup contract

Haiphong gets first direct link to US

Toyota invests in autonomous shipping

Revolutionary new multi-storey box storage system unveiled in Dubai

GMS takes elderly box brace

Shell to develop bunkering hub at Duqm

Polarcus awarded seismic contract in West Africa

Transport Capital taps former NordLB shipping head

Masterbulk trials Japanese battery solution on 54,810 dwt ship

Haiphong gets first direct link to US

Toyota invests in autonomous shipping

Koreans rush to New Times for Vale newcastlemaxes

Sun sets for former Chinese yard highflyer

CSIC Leasing goes for cape quartet at Qingdao Beihai

Chinese port sets out to overhaul Singapore’s bunkering dominance in the low sulphur era

McKeil Marine becomes the world's newest tanker owner