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Boskalis’ new subsea rock installation vessel starts work on Polish offshore wind project

Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Windpiper has departed the Port of Rotterdam to pick up its first load and sail to an...

Houthi threat brings Bab El-Mandeb crossings down another 50%

The number of vessels transiting the Bab El-Mandeb Strait into and out of the Red Sea averaged 31 per day over 25-26 July, according...

Mexican Port of Manzanillo container volumes up 9.9.% in H1

The Port of Manzanillo, on the Mexican Pacific coast, moved 2.07 million teu during the first half of the year, up 9.9% compared to...

Saipem-Subsea7 merger under the microscope as EU flags competition concerns

A proposed merger between Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem and the Luxembourg-domiciled Subsea7 is facing deeper scrutinyĀ in the European Union (EU)...

GTT’s integrated digital toolkit enhances Petronas-chartered LNG vessel fleet

GTT Marine, a division of France’s Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), has been tasked with deploying its integrated vessel performance solutions across a fleet of...

FPSO efficiency at Brazilian oil field surpasses target range to hit 97%

Karoon Energy, an ASX-listed oil and gas exploration and production company, hasĀ confirmed an uptick in operating efficiency at a floating production, storage, and offloading...

Sea1’s first offshore energy support vessel launches at Chinese yard

The first of four 120-meter-long offshore energy support vessels (OESVs) being built in China for Norwegian offshore services provider Sea1 Offshore has been launched...

$260 million drilling job with Eni takes Saipem’s drillship back to CĆ“te d’Ivoire

Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem has picked up a multimillion-dollar assignment in African waters for one of its drillships, enabling the...

Chevron books Velesto’s 2015-built rig on multimillion-dollar gig in Southeast Asia

Velesto Drilling, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s Velesto Energy, owner of premium jack-up rigs, has secured a deal to provide a jack-up rig for...

GTT’s hands full of tank design orders for FLNG unit and multiple LNG carriers

French technological containment specialist Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has seen a spike in new orders, securing additional tank design jobs for liquefied natural gas...

Vessel on fire in Hormuz, caution advised

In what could be the latest attack on a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz a vessel is reported to be on fire. The...

Energy majors home in on Hormuz bypass options as hostilities escalate

Following the collapse of the ā€˜ceasefire’ that never was, there have been virtually no transits of the perilous stretch of water over the last...

Concept design revealed for Port of Klaipėda’s green methanol bunkering vessel Vessels

Western Baltic Engineering, the engineering company of Estonia’s BLRT Grupp, has developed the technical specification and concept design for a green methanol bunkering vessel...

Rig trio to head back to work as Middle East conflict-induced suspensions end

Arabian Drilling, said to be Saudi Arabia’s largest onshore and offshore drilling company by fleet size, has been given the green light to return...

North Sea drilling ops with COSL rig on VĆ„r Energi’s agenda for August

Norway’s oil and gas player VĆ„r Energi hasĀ obtained a drilling permit for operationsĀ in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, which will beĀ undertakenĀ with a...

AIM-listed player seeks to widen gas horizons with exploration permit offshore New Zealand

Sunda Energy, the AIM-quoted exploration and appraisal company focused on gas assets in theĀ Asia-Pacific region, is pursuing an expansion of its portfolio by submitting...

Halliburton helping breathe life into TotalEnergies’ oil project worth up to $12.2B

U.S.-headquartered oilfield services player Halliburton has been hired on an assignment to assist in developing a giant deepwater oil project in Block 58 off...

Oil supply chains must be restored urgently to avert an energy price crisis

US crude oil exports rose sharply over the first half to replace halted supplies from the Arabian Gulf but the US is unlikely to...

Indian seafarer killed in Iran tanker strikes, says UAE

One Indian seafarer has been killed and eight Indian and Ukrainian seafarers injured, four of them seriously, in Iranian attacks on two tankers, according...

Velesto scraps proposed sale of 16-year-old jack-up rig

Malaysia’s Velesto Energy, owner of premium jack-up rigs, hasĀ called off a deal to offload a 2010-built jack-up, retaining the rig in its fleet A sale...

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