Rob Almeida is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a B.S. in Naval Architecture. He served 6.5 years as a Surface Warfare Officer, earning his qualification aboard USS Paul F. Foster (DD 964) during a Persian Gulf deployment in 2001 and later serving as Training Officer on USS Antietam (CG 54). After leaving the Navy, he entered Transocean's Accelerated Operations Management Program, working as roustabout, floorhand, dynamic positioning operator, derrickhand, and assistant driller on sixth-generation deepwater drillships. He served as gCaptain's Partner and Chief Marketing Officer from 2010 to 2015.
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The future of marine and offshore navigation may not be as awesome as flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet, but Rolls-Royce did a really good job at making it look
SBM Offshore announced today approximately 600 contractor staff and an equal number of permanent staff will be laid off over the next year. Chief Executive
The Pieter Schelte, a 382 meter long x 124 meter wide vessel designed and built to remove aging oil platforms, had some photos taken of her while transiting
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says they will take protected action against terminal operator DP World after they say the company refused to negotiate
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After nearly 30 years at Norwegian tanker company Odfjell, the last 5 of which as CEO, Jan A. Hammer will be leaving the company. Odfjell’s Board cites
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OAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) announced today the signing of a new USD $319 million, 10 year credit facility which the company says will be used to finance two
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Chevron made the official announcement today that oil and natural gas production has begun at their massive Jack/St. Malo floating production
The first aerial photo of Team Vestas Wind, a 65-foot sailboat racing in the Volvo Ocean Race which ran aground this weekend on Cargados Carajos Shoals,
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