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Friday, February 23, 2018
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Haunted by Oil Slump, Singapore’s Otto Marine Buckles Under Debt

By Andrea Tan and David Yong (Bloomberg) — A Singapore shipping company rescued by its chairman just over a year ago faces collapse unless the courts

February 23, 2018
Total Views: 88

Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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Worst Offshore Slump Holds Key Lessons for Top Norway Banker

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway’s biggest bank is done comparing: The downturn in the country’s offshore services market has no precedent.

May 31, 2017
Total Views: 50

Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Mothballed Ships in Southeast Asia Show Pain Inflicted by Oil Slump
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Mothballed Ships in Southeast Asia Show Pain Inflicted by Oil Slump

By Aradhana Aravindan and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters) – Not everyone in shipping is bemoaning the industry’s worst crisis in living

May 31, 2016
Total Views: 72

Monday, May 9, 2016
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Maersk Oil to Cut 40 Staff Amid Slumping Oil Price

COPENHAGEN, May 9 (Reuters) – Denmark’s Maersk Oil will cut 40 jobs in Copenhagen, Aberdeen and Stavanger due to the low oil price, it said on

May 9, 2016
Total Views: 4

Thursday, April 28, 2016
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Samsung Heavy Industries Loses $4.6 Billion Shell Order

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, said an order to build three floating liquefied

April 28, 2016
Total Views: 77

Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Norwegian Rainmaker Predicts Oil Crash is Near Bottom
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Norwegian Rainmaker Predicts Oil Crash is Near Bottom

By Jonas Cho Walsgard (Bloomberg) — Shipping is about to lead a recovery in global offshore markets that have been battered by plunging oil prices,

April 27, 2016
Total Views: 36

Thursday, April 14, 2016
Houston-Based Oil Explorer Energy XXI Files for Bankruptcy After $5 Billion Expansion
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Houston-Based Oil Explorer Energy XXI Files for Bankruptcy After $5 Billion Expansion

By Tiffany Kary and Joe Carroll (Bloomberg) — Energy XXI Ltd. filed for bankruptcy protection after spending $5 billion on acquisitions in the years

April 14, 2016
Total Views: 50

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Marine Industry Looks to Cruise Ships, Wind Farms to Weather Oil Slump
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Marine Industry Looks to Cruise Ships, Wind Farms to Weather Oil Slump

By Aradhana Aravindan and Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, April 12 (Reuters) – Marine and offshore engineering companies are turning to cruise ships, fishing

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 6

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Cheap Oil Blunting Drive for Fuel Efficiency -Kemp

By John Kemp LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) – Fuel consumption is not very sensitive to a small change in prices in the short run, but if the price change

April 12, 2016
Total Views: 5

Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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Fred. Olsen Energy Says Drilling Rates to Stay at Loss-Making Levels

OSLO, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Global offshore drilling rig rates will remain at loss-making levels as the market continues to suffer from overcapacity,

February 16, 2016
Total Views: 19

Monday, February 15, 2016
Singaporean Rig Builder Sembcorp Marine Posts First Loss Since 2003
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Singaporean Rig Builder Sembcorp Marine Posts First Loss Since 2003

By Kyunghee Park and Jonathan Burgos (Bloomberg) — Sembcorp Marine Ltd., the world’s second- largest builder of oil rigs, posted its first quarterly

February 15, 2016
Total Views: 53

Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Maersk’s $2.5 Billion Loss in Q4 2015 Worse Than Expected
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Maersk’s $2.5 Billion Loss in Q4 2015 Worse Than Expected

By Ole Mikkelsen COPENHAGEN, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk tumbled to a loss of $2.5 billion in the last three months of 2015

February 10, 2016
Total Views: 36

Friday, February 5, 2016
Just 0.1% of Global Oil Output Has Been Halted Due to Low Prices
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Just 0.1% of Global Oil Output Has Been Halted Due to Low Prices

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — After a year of low oil prices, only 0.1 percent of global production has been curtailed because it’s unprofitable,

February 5, 2016
Total Views: 8

Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Shell Profit Plunges at Least 42% as Oil’s Slump Deepens
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Shell Profit Plunges at Least 42% as Oil’s Slump Deepens

By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which is buying BG Group Plc in the industry’s largest deal in a decade, expects fourth-quarter

January 20, 2016
Total Views: 2

Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Havila Shipping’s Debt Plan Fails to Gain Support
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Havila Shipping’s Debt Plan Fails to Gain Support

By Luca Casiraghi (Bloomberg) — Havila Shipping ASA said it has so far failed to get enough support from bondholders to postpone repayments on 5.7

January 19, 2016
Total Views: 8

China Offshore Driller CNOOC to Cut Output for First Time Since 1999
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China Offshore Driller CNOOC to Cut Output for First Time Since 1999

Aibing Guo and Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — China’s largest offshore oil company will cut output for the first time in more than a decade, prompting

January 19, 2016
Total Views: 2

Tuesday, January 12, 2016
BP Plans to Cut 4,000 More Oil Jobs
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BP Plans to Cut 4,000 More Oil Jobs

By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — BP Plc plans to cut 4,000 jobs in its crude- oil production division this year as prices trade near a 12-year low. The

January 12, 2016
Total Views: 2

Monday, January 11, 2016
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Maritime News

Maersk Faces ‘Toxic Cocktail’ in 2016, Analyst Nordea Says

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S is a conglomerate with about 900 different divisions, but investors only really need to worry

January 11, 2016
Total Views: 34

Friday, November 6, 2015
Maersk Oil Profit Sank 86% Last Quarter as Prices Plunge
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Maersk Oil Profit Sank 86% Last Quarter as Prices Plunge

  Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, Denmark’s biggest company, said profit at its oil unit dropped 86 percent in the

November 6, 2015
Total Views: 32
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