Offshore
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Bumi Armada starts legal proceedings against Woodside for FPSO cancellation
Bumi Armada’s subsidiary Armada Balnaves has commenced legal proceedings against Woodside Energy Julimar after the offshore oilfield operator cancelled its…
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Viking Supply Ships lays up two more PSVs
Viking Supply Ships is laying up a pair of platform supply vessels, Sol Viking and Freyja Viking, with immediate effect…
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TAS Offshore hit with termination for AHTS pair
Malaysian offshore shipbuilding and repair specialist TAS Offshore has been given a notice of termination from QMS1 Offshore Services, part…
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BP tipped to refloat tender for Mad Dog 2 semi-submersible unit
BP is looking to retender its anchor production structure for its $10bn Mad Dog 2 field development in the US…
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Judge finds BP not liable for losses caused by bans in wake of Deepwater Horizon disaster
A federal judge has ruled that BP cannot be held liable for losses incurred by energy and drilling firms when…
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Petrofac appointed duty holder for Anasuria cluster in the North Sea
Petrofac has been appointed duty holder of the Anasuria cluster in the North Sea for a five-year period. The contract…
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Anadarko Petroleum to cut 1,000 more jobs as oil-price austerity tightens
Anadarko Petroleum is implementing further swingeing cuts of around 1,000 jobs, according to the Houston Chronicle. If the Woodlands, Texas-based company…
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Norway braces for another 12,000 oil and gas redundancies
The peaks and troughs of the Norwegian oil and gas sector has been highlighted by a new employment report on…
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Brazil’s former president Lula charged in connection with Petrobras case
Brazilian prosecutors have charged former national president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with money laundering and misrepresentation in regards to…
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Global Marine Systems: Further subsea consolidation ‘inevitable’
Chelmsford: Further consolidation in the subsea sector is “inevitable”, according to one of the key architects of recent mergers in…
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Hercules Offshore jackup rates jacked down by Saudi Aramco
Hercules Offshore has announced that it has received notice from Saudi Aramco reducing the dayrates of jackups Hercules 261 and…
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Technip’s Angola JV wins three-year FPSO contract
Total E&P Angola has awarded Technip Angola Engenharia, a joint venture (JV) between Technip and state energy company Sonangol, a…
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Brazil authorities make moves to extend some of Petrobras’ longstanding oilfield rights
Brazil’s government announced on Wednesday measures that could lead to extending Petrobras’ rights in some of its oldest oilfields, according…
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Island Offshore lays up PSV pair
Island Offshore has said that it is laying up platform supply vessels Island Dragon and Island Duchess with immediate effect.…
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Contract cancelled for subsea newbuilding at Havyard
An unidentified shipowner has cancelled its contract for a subsea vessel being built at Norway’s Havyard Ship Technology, “in light…
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Pemex secures lines of credit so it can pay its creditors
Mexico’s state oil firm Pemex, which has substantial offshore oil drilling interests in the Gulf of Mexico, on Tuesday announced…
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TGS-NOPEC Geophysical appoints new CEO
Norwegian seismic specialist TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) has announced the appointment of Kristian Johansen as chief executive officer effective March 11.…
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Former head of Odebrecht gets 19 years in Petrobras case
The former head of Brazilian engineering and construction giant Odebrecht was jailed on Tuesday for 19 years and four months…
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Almost 100 offshore vessels laid up in the North Sea
Some 92 offshore vessels are laid up in the North Sea region, with REM Offshore’s (built 2011) platform support vessel…
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Boskalis wins dredging contract for new Abu Dhabi gas pipeline
The National Petroleum Construction Company of Abu Dhabi has awarded Royal Boskalis Westminster with a dredging contract related to the…
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