Yesterday’s or Tomorrow’s Offshore Energy: Which to Pick?
Looking back, it is easy to wonder if one could have done better by taking the other fork in the road. I grew up in Holland in a maritime family and am pretty sure I would have stuck with maritime there. In 1968, when I was 8 years old, my father left Holland America Line and joined the United States Salvage Association.
SBM Offshore Shares Gain on Hopes of Brazilian Settlement
Shares in Dutch offshore oil industry services company SBM Offshore rose on Friday on a media report the company was close to settling a corruption probe with Brazilian authorities that has prevented it from bidding for work in a major market. The shares rose as much…
Statoil to Resume Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Flights Gradually
Norway's Statoil said on Tuesday it expected to gradually resume flights of Sikorsky S-92 helicopters it uses to transport offshore workers, after all flights were stopped earlier in the day for safety checks. The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, which manufactures the helicopters…
Lloyd’s Register Acquires RTAMO
Lloyd’s Register (LR), a global engineering, technical and business services organization, has acquired RTAMO Ltd, a software enabled consultancy based in Aberdeen which provides data-driven solutions designed to reduce maintenance costs for asset owners. Murray Douglas…
Havyard & Fafnir Win Environmental Award
The Havyard Group and Fafnir Offshore were presented with the Environmental Award at the annual Offshore Support Journal Conference in London that took place last week. Havyard has been acknowledge for devoting extensive resources to research and development in order to produce ship designs that are safe…
ClassNK Expands Veracruz Office
Leading classification society ClassNK has announced the expansion of its Veracruz Office in order to better support the growing offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico. The expansion will increase the survey capabilities and management of the Veracruz office in…
Japan PM Tells Brazil Time to do More Business
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe touted the success of his economic policies on a visit to Brazil on Friday and said it was time for the two nations to expand their trade and investment partnership. On the first visit to Brazil in a decade by a Japanese prime minister…
Kongsberg's integrated control and safety system for Teekay's Gina Krog
Kongsberg Maritime Engineering (KME) has signed a contract with Gina Krog LLC, a subsidiary of Teekay Shipping AS, for supply of an Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) and Power package to the Gina Krog FSO (Floating Storage and Offloading) unit, to be delivered…
Teekay Offshore Buys Towage Firm, Orders New AHTS Vessels
Teekay Offshore Partners say they have agreed to acquire ALP Maritime Services B.V. (ALP), a Netherlands-based provider of long-haul ocean towage and offshore installation services to the global offshore oil and gas industry. ALP currently provides these services through a fleet of third-party owned vessels.
Deepwater Seabed Minerals Exploration Project
Keppel Corporation forms, Ocean Mineral Singapore Pte., to explore for polymetallic nodules several kilometres beneath the ocean's surface. Polymetallic nodules contain copper, nickel, cobalt and manganese, as well as rare earth minerals, and have the potential of…
