Americas
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Fieldwood Energy files for Chapter 11 at same time as buying Noble’s Gulf of Mexico assets
Houston-based oil producer Fieldwood Energy filed for bankruptcy on Thursday at the same time as it announced it was acquiring…
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Washington State may use land lease controls to impede offshore oil plan
Washington State is considering blocking land leases and certain other land usage agreements in an effort to hinder plans for…
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Rowan drillship given early termination by Anadarko
Rowan Companies has been given notice of early termination by Anadarko for 2014-built drillship . The drillship, operating in the…
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S&P positive for most shipping segments bar liners
S&P Global Ratings believes that this year demand in the three main segments of the global shipping industry – dry…
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Keppel confirms new EIG lawsuit filed in the US
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has confirmed that it has been served with a summons for a $660m civil case…
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America’s biggest oil import terminal loads VLCC for export
America’s biggest privately owned crude import terminal, Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), is taking a big step towards becoming an…
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Mexican authorities find 42 kilos of cocaine under CSAV containership
Mexican navy units have found and recovered 42 kilograms of cocaine in suitcases hidden in a special underwater hull attached…
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Cheniere Energy closes two LNG storage tanks at Sabine Pass because of leaks
Houston-based Cheniere Energy has been ordered by the industry regulatory body to shut down two storage tanks at its Sabine…
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Interocean pounces on another post-panamax
In the post-panamax sector, the German controlled 93,000 dwt sized has been sold for $17.2m to the Menendez family according…
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Diamond Offshore Drilling awarded new semi-submersible contracts
Houston-based Diamond Offshore Drilling has won several new contracts for its semi-submersible rigs according to its latest fleet status report.…
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Keppel says court papers not received in US civil case over Brazil bribes
Singapore-based Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has not been served court papers in relation to a civil case being…
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US truck driver shortage problem predicted to worsen
Online freight forwarder iContainers says that the truck driver shortage problem plaguing the US at the moment is set to…
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Truck strike in Argentina causes logjam at Rosario
A truck owners’ strike in Argentina has halted unloading of commodities at various terminals and has caused a logjam of…
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Californians protest offshore drilling plan at BOEM public meeting in state capital
Protestors rallied outside a meeting of the Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOE) in Sacramento, California, according to Reuters. Environmentalists…
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Aker Solutions earns four-year maintenance contract from Petrobras
Norwegian oilfield services company Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract with Brazil’s state oil firm Petrobras to provide maintenance…
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Petrobras starts process of selling Texas refinery
Brazil’s troubled state oil firm Petrobras has started the process of selling its refinery at Pasadena, Texas, according to Reuters.…
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California plans to impede increased offshore drilling by denying pipeline permits
California elected officials on Wednesday spelled out their intent to hamper as much as possible the White House’s plan to…
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GulfMark Offshore targets business in Mexico with new JV
GulfMark Offshore has formed a partnership with Marcos y Asociados Infraestructura y Energia to form Mexican joint venture GulfMark Servicios…
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NTSB releases its full report on El Faro tragedy
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday released its full final report on the October 1, 2015 sinking…
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M2 Subsea secures Gulf of Mexico contract from TransCanada
UK-based M2 Subsea has secured a contract with TransCanada for pipeline-span support on the pipeline installation at the Sur de…
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