August 1st, 20190Dubai-headquartered offshore driller Shelf Drilling has been awarded contracts by India’s ONGC for jackup rigs C.E. Thornton and F.G. McClintock. The rigs will...
July 31st, 20194Britain, the US, France and a host of European and Asian nations are meeting today in Bahrain to discuss plans to build an international naval coalition to protect...
July 31st, 20190After close to a year, weekly circulating its exit from the supramax segment, and fixing and failing on several occasions, Dubai-based Tomini has finally sealed a deal...
July 30th, 20196BP, the seventh largest oil company in the world, has not taken any of its own tankers through the Strait of Hormuz since a July 10 attempt by Iran to seize one of its...
July 30th, 20190Qatar Petroleum has entered into an agreement with Total for a 40% share of Total’s interest in two blocks offshore Guyana. Qatar Petroleum is buying into the...
July 29th, 20190Stena Bulk is asking Iranian authorities to get access to its impounded product tanker, , and the 23 crew onboard. The UK-flagged ship was seized on July 20 in an...
July 29th, 20190Iran’s largest shipping line has a new boss after Mohammad Saeedi resigned yesterday from his role as managing director of Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines...
July 29th, 20190Japan Drilling Company jackup rig pair Hakuryu 10 and Hakuryu 12 have both been awarded one-year extensions by North Oil Company. The jackups are operating off Qatar...
July 29th, 20190National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), together with its joint venture partner Petrofac, has secured a new contract from Al Yasat Petroleum, a joint venture...
July 26th, 20190Iran has released nine out of 12 Indians who were onboard the tanker that was detained in early July, accused of fuel smuggling, something the ship’s charterer has...
July 25th, 20190Iran’s president yesterday hinted he’d be up for a tanker trade with the UK in order to deescalate the tense situation around the Strait of Hormuz. “We do not...
July 25th, 20190Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is creating an LPG shipping joint venture with China’s Wanhua Chemical. The agreement builds on an earlier 10-year LPG supply...
July 25th, 20190Two preliminary agreements between DP World and Indonesian conglomerate Maspion Group were signed yesterday to create a $1.2bn container port and industrial logistics...
July 24th, 20190A host of European nations are coming out in support of the UK’s call for a naval coalition to assist merchant shipping through the troubled Strait of...
July 24th, 20191An abandoned FSO off Yemen with 1.1m barrels of oil onboard has been branded a potential environmental disaster in waiting by the United Nations. The decaying,...
July 24th, 20190Qatar Petroleum has reached a deal to acquire a 25% interesting in three exploration blocks off Kenya. The agreement, which is subject to approvals by the government...
July 23rd, 20194With the US telling London it must handle the impasse by itself, the British government yesterday mooted the idea of a European naval coalition to safeguard merchant...
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