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Friday, June 5, 2020
Offshore Wind Turbines At Sea
Offshore

Wind Turbine Inventor Sees Unlimited Potential in Floating Wind Farms

By Will Mathis (Bloomberg) — The turbine inventor Henrik Stiesdal is small in the shadows of gigantic curves of steel, watching workers weld towers that

June 5, 2020
Total Views: 258

offshore rigs Mobile offshore drilling units stand in the Port of Cromarty Firth in Cromarty, U.K.
Offshore

Offshore Oil’s $105 Billion Hangover Adding to Industry Woes

By Peter Millard, Laura Hurst and David Wethe (Bloomberg) –Aging offshore oil wells that once brought market prominence to Europe, the U.S. Gulf and

June 5, 2020
Total Views: 116

Thursday, June 4, 2020
offshore wind farm under construction. DJ Mattaar / Shutterstock
Offshore

Subsidy-Free Wind Farm Gets Green Light in the North Sea

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Swedish energy company Vattenfall AB is going ahead with building one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms and

June 4, 2020
Total Views: 69

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
U.S. Senators Propose Expanding Nord Stream 2 Sanctions
Offshore

U.S. Senators Propose Expanding Nord Stream 2 Sanctions

By Patricia Zengerle and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) – U.S. senators will announce a bill this week expanding sanctions on

June 3, 2020
Total Views: 140

offshore wind turbine
Offshore

EDF-Led Group Nods $2.2 Billion French Offshore Wind Project

By Francois de Beaupuy (Bloomberg) — Electricite de France SA and its Canadian and German partners have finalized the funding of a 2-billion euro ($2.23

June 3, 2020
Total Views: 210

Tuesday, June 2, 2020
U.S. Gulf Put on Notice as Tropical Storm Cristobal Gains Strength
Offshore

U.S. Gulf Put on Notice as Tropical Storm Cristobal Gains Strength

By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) –Tropical Storm Cristobal, now gaining strength in the southern Gulf of Mexico, could grow into a hurricane as it moves

June 2, 2020
Total Views: 47

Monday, June 1, 2020
Subsea 7 stock photo
Offshore

Subsea 7 to Slash Global Workforce by 25%

Subsea 7 has released details of its cost reduction program which it alluded to in its first quarter earnings report released April 30. As previously

June 1, 2020
Total Views: 173

Friday, May 29, 2020
Tullow Oil: 58 Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 on FPSO Off Ghana
Offshore

Tullow Oil: 58 Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 on FPSO Off Ghana

ACCRA, May 29 (Reuters) – Fifty-eight workers tested positive for COVID-19 at an oil production facility run by Tullow Oil off Ghana’s Atlantic

May 29, 2020
Total Views: 147

Wednesday, May 27, 2020
offshore oil rig
Offshore

Chevron Planning to Cut Up to 15% of Workforce

By Kevin Crowley and Rachel Adams-Heard (Bloomberg) –Chevron Corp. is planning a 10% to 15% reduction in its global workforce this year, the biggest cut

May 27, 2020
Total Views: 56

Tuesday, May 26, 2020
offshore drilling rig brazil. Stock Photo: Shutterstock / marchello74
Offshore

Brazil’s Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Facing Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26 (Reuters) – Norway’s Equinor ASA , Brazil’s Dommo Energia SA and Anglo-French firm

May 26, 2020
Total Views: 45

Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbines
Offshore

Battle Over World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Is Heating Up

By William Mathis (Bloomberg) — Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA, the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, is to build what will be the world’s biggest

May 19, 2020
Total Views: 219

Monday, May 18, 2020
Stock photo shows an oil tanker at a terminal
Offshore

Oil Rises to Two-Month High Amid Demand Recovery

(Bloomberg) — Oil rose to levels not seen since Covid-19 lockdowns paralyzed the world’s largest economy, lifted by signs of recovering demand and

May 18, 2020
Total Views: 48

Friday, May 15, 2020
Deepwater Champion Drillship
Finance

Transocean Is The Decade’s Biggest Loser

With COVID19 wreaking havoc in the stock market, you might think that travel or tourism stock might be the biggest losers of the past decade. But, according to

May 15, 2020
Total Views: 1670

‘Historic’ Investment Decision on Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project Offshore Norway
Offshore

‘Historic’ Investment Decision on Major Carbon Capture and Storage Project Offshore Norway

A trio of oil industry majors have made a historic investment decision on a large-scale offshore carbon capture and storage project offshore Norway seen as

May 15, 2020
Total Views: 214

Thursday, May 14, 2020
VIDEO: How Offshore Oil Rigs Work
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VIDEO: How Offshore Oil Rigs Work

  Without a doubt, the highest quality, most interesting, maritime and offshore videos of today are produced by Wendover Productions. Seriously, Go

May 14, 2020
Total Views: 546

Monday, May 4, 2020
Offshore Oil Platform
News

Global Oil Demand Starts a Long, Painful and Uncertain Recovery

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) — Few have a better watchtower over oil demand than Joe Gorder, chief executive officer of major U.S. refiner Valero Energy

May 4, 2020
Total Views: 104

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
A support vessel is seen next to a wind turbine at the Walney Extension offshore wind farm operated by Orsted off the coast of Blackpool, Britain
News

Renewable Energy Helps Utilities Survive Virus Slump

By Jeremy Hodges and Anna Shiryaevskaya (Bloomberg) — European utilities with bulging renewable energy portfolios are showing that the way out of the

April 29, 2020
Total Views: 63

Tuesday, April 28, 2020
north sea oil rig
News

U.K. Oil and Gas Industry May Lose 30,000 Jobs Amid Coronavirus Slump

By Helen Robertson (Bloomberg) — The U.K.’s oil and gas industry could lose as many as 30,000 jobs over the next 12–18 months and see drilling

April 28, 2020
Total Views: 47

Monday, April 27, 2020
north sea drilling rigs
News

Maersk Drilling Announces North Sea Layoffs

Maersk Drilling says it is taking steps to reduce its offshore crew pool as it stacks North Sea rigs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and crash in oil

April 27, 2020
Total Views: 70

Sunday, April 26, 2020
offshore rig north sea
News

Diamond Offshore Files for Bankruptcy Amid Historic Crude Crash

By David Wethe and Jeremy Hill (Bloomberg) — Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc., the rig contractor controlled by Loews Corp., filed for bankruptcy amid an

April 26, 2020
Total Views: 78