Applied Petroleum Technology has been awarded a global frame agreement by Wintershall Dea GmbH to supply geochemical analyses for the energy company’s E&P efforts around the world. 

Electro technical system integrator Bakker Sliedrecht will renew, modify, extend and integrate all electro technical installations of Boskalis’ new crane vessel Bokalift 2, which will be taken into service in 2021.

Five Crowley tugboats recently worked together to load the LP Odyssey, a self-propelled, semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform, onto a heavy-lift ship for Barber Moss Ship Management on behalf of Sea Launch/S7 Space.

This is an update to the first quarter 2020 outlook provided in the fourth quarter results announcement on January 30, 2020. The impacts presented here may vary from the actual results and are subject to finalisation of the first quarter 2020 results.

Quality Companies, a global offshore and onshore construction, fabrication and electrical and instrumentation company, has appointed Derek Bollom as vice president of offshore and offsite operations for Quality Construction and Production.

Kongsberg Maritime has taken another bold step in the implementation of its market-leading strategies for autonomous, sustainable shipping thanks to the company’s involvement in an ambitious new tugboat project.

TechnipFMC has announced that it remains focused on taking all necessary steps to ensure the health and well-being of its employees, contractors and partners, and it is taking decisive actions in response to the current market environment. These actions include the following:

Total and Apache have made a material oil discovery with the Maka Central-1 well on Block 58 offshore Suriname, on trend with the prolific discoveries in the adjacent Stabroek block in Guyana.

STATS Group has strengthened its presence in Oman with the opening of a new workshop, storage and testing facility in Muscat.  

SevenCs will be releasing a new version of their chart validation tool, the 7Cs Analyzer, at the end of March 2020. 7Cs Analyzer Version 4.2. comes with great new features to make chart validation more flexible and customizable.

Subsea 7 S.A. (Oslo Børs: SUBC, ADR: SUBCY) has announced that due to the general uncertainty in the world and for the industry caused by the coronavirus and the collapse in commodity prices, it is withdrawing the guidance and outlook statements issued on 27 February 2020.

TDI-Brooks International, Inc (under contract to TGS), has completed the offshore “seep-hunting” surface geochemical analysis and geotechnical campaign of the MSGBC Basin, from Northern Senegal through The Gambia and AGC zone, into Guinea-Bissau down to the Guinea transform fault.

The EU-funded Ocean DEMO project has awarded recommendations for support to ten offshore renewable energy developers under its 2nd call. The awards will support developers on their path to commercialization and ease the transition of ocean energy towards multi-device farms by providing free access to open sea test sites.

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is part of a COVID-19 Industry Group which has collaborated with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), World Health Organization (WHO) and International Labor Organization (ILO) to develop a preliminary list of recommendations for Governments and relevant national authorities on the facilitation of maritime trade during the pandemic.

The rates for chartering very large crude carriers (VLCCs) has surged exponentially due to a spike in demand for long-term offshore storage of crude oil following the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC’s) disagreement with Russia over the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and the resulting oil price crash, according to leading data and analytics company GlobalData.

McDermott International, Inc announces that early first gas has been achieved on India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) 98/2 Block in the Krishna Godavari Basin, offshore India.