Rob Almeida

Under perfect sailing conditions since leaving Newport, Rhode Island, the course record for the historic 635 nautical mile Newport-Bermuda Race was fully

Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race recently took the fleet from Lisbon, Portugal, around the Azores, to Lorient, France.  Along the way however, they encountered

SBM Offshore announced today that they have received a letter of interim award (LOIA) from Shell for the supply, lease and operation of a FPSO for the Fram

The Leiv Eiriksson Consortium, a Norwegian continental shelf consortium managed by Rig Management Norway, has today awarded Eidesvik two contracts for their

After rounding the Azores a few days ago, the Volvo Ocean Race fleet had a bit of a sleigh ride east toward the finish of leg 8 in Lorient.

I imagine I’m not in the minority here when I say that the world of satellite communications is a bit confusing.  When Marlink invited me to interview

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN), the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, announced their monthly fleet update summary today with a

STX OSV announced today that they have secured a contract for the design and construction of a large, advanced Offshore Subsea Construction Vessel (OSCV)

Farstad Shipping announced today the winning of charter contracts for 9 of their vessels, including two newbuild PSVs for Statoil.  Excluding options, the

My interview with SMIT Lamnalco’s Chief Executive Officer, Daan Koornneef, at this year’s Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. When I

Swire has ordered eight IMT-997 platform supply vessels (PSVs), with four to be built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and a further four to be

The Pacific is a huge expanse of open ocean, and oddly enough the container ship Horizon Reliance happened to be in the right place at the right time for

Dolphin Drilling Ltd. a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA, has entered into a three year contract with BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd. for use of the

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As Qatar ramps up its exports of LNG, Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) has built one of the largest LNG fleets in the world. Nakilat

In the summer of 2009, Northrop Grumman’s Avondale Shipyard had just finished building USS New York — a San Antonio-class amphibious transport

USS Miami, an American Los Angeles-class “improved” fast attack submarine was undergoing a routine maintenance shipyard availability at Portsmouth

STX Offshore and Shipbuilding announced this week a signed $120 million Letter of Intent (LOI) with an unnamed Greek owner to build two 6,500-CBM LPG vessels

When former shipmate, Captain Adam Iverson from the Atwood Condor sent these images to me the other day, I felt an immediate sense of envy followed by a desire

Not only is Barrow Island, Australia a Class A Nature Reserve, but soon it will be an important LNG export hub from the Gorgon Field, one of the largest