Offshore

A coalition of environmental groups sued the Port of Seattle on Monday to stop the lease of a terminal to Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Arctic oil drilling fleet,

Deepwater Wind Block Island, a 30-megawatt offshore wind farm development project located south of Rhode Island, is now fully-funded following the closure of

If you work in the offshore sector, you know that compensating for the vertical heave motion of a vessel is not a new thing when it comes to crane

Ivory Coast, which disputes sea boundaries with neighboring Ghana, has asked an arbitration panel to order Ghana to halt drilling in an area where Tullow

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a long-term contract today from eni’s subsidiary in Ghana for the employment of their new drillship, Maersk Voyager.

The high spec offshore construction vessel Viking Neptun was delivered last month to Norwegian shipowner Eidesvik from Kleven Verft in Ulsteinvik, Norway. The

The Aker H-6e design semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Spitzbergen is back to work this week for Statoil after a few months of suspended operations,

Statoil announced today they have signed a contract with Allseas to utilize the Pioneering Spirit (ex- Pieter Schelte) to install the drilling, processing

Due for delivery from Jurong Shipyard in May, Helix ESG’s new well intervention semi-submersible Q5000 was poised to head into a 5-year contract with

Ensco will shut down or cold stack a rig by mid 2015, Chief Executive Carl Trowell said on a conference call with analysts on

The  2007-built DP2 heavy lift crane vessel Lewek Champion performs a fixed offshore platform installation in the following undated video: The Lewek

Total E&P Norge (TEPN), Statoil and Talisman Energy have all been given approval to commence drilling operations in the central part of the North Sea by

CGG SA, the oil field seismic surveyor that rejected a takeover approach by Technip SA, reported a net loss of $1.2 billion in 2014 after a writedown for

The world's biggest offshore drillers reported plunging earnings and orders on Thursday but managed to get a grip on costs to improve their chances of riding

Considering the 4.5 years of legal battles Transocean (NYSE:RIG) has faced since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, the involvement of activist investor Carl

The world’s biggest oil and gas producers, already cutting hundreds of jobs a week from the U.K.’s North Sea, are just warming

The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the U.S. Coast Guard have today issued a Joint Safety Alert in response to a dynamic

In an SEC filing yesterday, Diamond Offshore says at least six of their rigs are likely to lose their contracts. Diamond says a verbal notification came from

Norwegian engineering firm Aibel has won a contract worth 8 billion crowns ($1.05 billion) from Statoil to build a drilling platform for the Johan Sverdrup

SEACOR Holdings Inc. has announced this week that Oivind Lorentzen has resigned from his post as Chief Executive Officer and will continue as a director and