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Europe
Ensco secures contracts for three drillships off West Africa
UK-headquartered offshore driller Ensco has announced new contracts for a pair of drillships offshore Nigeria and another offshore Ivory Coast.…
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Europe
Bibby SOV wins Total accommodation contract
Bibby Marine Services has signed a contract with Total E&P Nederland to charter the , a service operations vessel with…
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Europe
Wood Group secures offshore contract from Maersk
UK offshore engineering firm Wood Group has been awarded a new contract by Maersk to deliver mechanical and management services…
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Gas
Navigator Holdings secures $160.8m loan facility
Handysize liquefied gas carriers operator Navigator Holding has entered into a secured facility agreement with a host of banks including…
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Europe
Union Maritime keeps up MR spree
While many northern European businesses are preparing for the upcoming summer holiday, UK-based Union Maritime remains busy and continues to…
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Europe
Affinity: Focus on the start of a new cycle
Affinity Shipping is growing its financial services offerings, conscious of the “new breed of investors” coming into the industry, the…
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Europe
CWind secures Dong extension
Offshore windfarm service contractor CWind has secured a two-year extension to its existing three-year crew transfer vessel contract at the…
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Europe
Valles tanker and Chinese bulker collide in the English Channel
Two vessels, the 2011-built LR tanker Seafrontier and 2013-built bulker Huayang Endeavour, collided in the English Channel on Saturday. Both vessels had…
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Europe
Tufton Oceanic linked with post-panamax boxship pair
UK-based Tufton Oceanic is being linked by brokers as the buyer of a pair of Claus-Peter Offen 9,200 teu ships.…
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Asia
Subsea 7 takes on EMAS Chiyoda Subsea business units and 850 staff
Subsea 7 has picked up a number of businesses from EMAS Chiyoda Subsea (ECS), the subsea joint venture led by Singapore’s Ezra…
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Europe
Wood Group picked for Husky Energy White Rose contract
Wood Group has secured a multi-million dollar contract from Husky Energy to complete detailed engineering for the topsides of White…
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Europe
Ensco secures jackup contract from NAM
Offshore drilling contractor Ensco has secured a contract from Dutch company Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) for its jackup drilling rig…
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Europe
Wood Group awarded Alexandroupolis FEED contract
Gastrade has awarded UK-based Wood Group a front end engineering design (FEED) contract for the Alexandroupolis Independent Natural Gas System…
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Americas
Murphy Oil contracts Noble drillship for Gulf of Mexico work
Arkansas-based oil and gas exploration firm Murphy Oil has stepped in to contract Noble Corporation’s ultra deep-water drillship in July.…
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Europe
Wood Group awarded Woodside engineering support contract
UK-headquartered Wood Group has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Woodside to provide engineering support for the subsea pipeline system…
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Maritime CEO
Shipping and the 800-lb Gorilla: 300 pages of maritime disruption
Arguably shipping’s most high profile futurist, Kate Adamson, has a new book out, a 300-page tome that will, as is…
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Greater China
Nobu Su anticipates another Clarkson court battle soon
An appeals judge in the UK has given Nobu Su another chance to take broker Clarkson Platou to court. Su,…
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Contributions
What a hard Brexit could mean for the UK’s transport industry
Mark Hue-Williams from insurance firm Willis Towers Watson has important news days ahead of the British election. The possibility of…
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Americas
Ensco to acquire Atwood Oceanics
UK-based offshore driller Ensco has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Atwood Oceanics which will see Ensco acquire the…
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Europe
Bibby Offshore awarded TAQA subsea contract
Bibby Offshore has been awarded a contract by TAQA for subsea construction work in the Eider field, offshore Shetland. The…
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