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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: 34

Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Oil Drilling Off U.S. East Coast Under Attack from Environmentalists
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Oil Drilling Off U.S. East Coast Under Attack from Environmentalists

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — Environmentalists emboldened by President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline are now trying to

February 3, 2016
Total Views: 71

Crew Transfer Helicopter Crashes Off Lagos
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Crew Transfer Helicopter Crashes Off Lagos

Bristow Helicopters has confirmed that eleven people have been rescued after one of its helicopters was involved in a controlled water landing near Lagos at

February 3, 2016
Total Views: 252

Tuesday, January 26, 2016
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Mainstream to Build $2.8 Billion Scottish Offshore Wind Farm

(Bloomberg) — Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. said it’s in talks with a consortium led by power company InterGen NV to reach a financial close on its

January 26, 2016
Total Views: 34

Monday, January 25, 2016
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Polarcus Sets Record With Largest Man-Made Moving Object On Earth

Dubai-based Polarcus is in the process of acquiring an ultra-wide 3D marine seismic project offshore Myanmar, and is breaking acquisition performance records

January 25, 2016
Total Views: 347

Friday, January 22, 2016
BIMCO: A Miserable Start to a New Year
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BIMCO: A Miserable Start to a New Year

(BIMCO) – Dry Bulk Shipping: A Miserable Start to a New Year, Where the Market Struggles to Grow at All  Demand The global production of steel

January 22, 2016
Total Views: 23

Keppel Uncertainty Continues as Brazil Client Delays
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Keppel Uncertainty Continues as Brazil Client Delays

By Kyunghee Park and Jonathan Burgos (Bloomberg) — Keppel Corp.’s uncertainties about the oil- rig market are set to continue after a key customer in

January 22, 2016
Total Views: 32

Thursday, January 21, 2016
Ship Photos of the Day – Reduced Visibility Arrival in Rotterdam
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Ship Photos of the Day – Reduced Visibility Arrival in Rotterdam

KOTUG International tugs towing the oil tanker New Voyage in reduced visibility into the Port of Rotterdam. Photos from KOTUG crew members Dennis

January 21, 2016
Total Views: 71

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: 18

Tuesday, January 19, 2016
barents sea drilling
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Norway’s Arctic Oil Ambitions Get $7 Billion Lifeline from Statoil

By Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) — Norway’s Arctic ambitions just got a $7 billion boost from Statoil ASA. Norway’s largest oil company was able to halve

January 19, 2016
Total Views: 51

Friday, January 15, 2016
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.
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Seadrill Delays Two Drillships at DSME

Seadrill Ltd. has emerged as the client who agreed to postpone delivery of two ultra-deepwater drillships under construction at the South

January 15, 2016
Total Views: 61

Monday, January 11, 2016
maersk drilling rig
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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: 62

Monday, January 4, 2016
Video Shows Swiber AHTS Aground in Mexico
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Video Shows Swiber AHTS Aground in Mexico

A Swiber offshore vessel kicked off the year running aground along a stretch of beach near the port of Dos Bocas in Paraíso, Tabasco,

January 4, 2016
Total Views: 130

Monday, December 28, 2015
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Shell Terminates Contract for Polar Pioneer Drilling Rig

Royal Dutch Shell has terminated its contract for use of Transocean’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig following the the oil major’s

December 28, 2015
Total Views: 460

Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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Shell Cuts 2016 Spending by $2 Billion as It Prepares for BG

By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, further reduced spending plans for this year and 2016 as it

December 22, 2015
Total Views: 23

Monday, December 14, 2015
Shell to Cut 2,800 Jobs After BG Deal
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Shell to Cut 2,800 Jobs After BG Deal

By Rakteem Katakey (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it would cut about 2,800 jobs to meet a pledge of reducing operating costs by $3.5 billion

December 14, 2015
Total Views: 19

Tuesday, December 1, 2015
transocean arctic
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Transocean Day Rates Hit New Low Water Mark

by Mikael Holter (Bloomberg) Transocean Ltd., the biggest offshore-rig operator, won a contract to drill four wells off Norway for Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA

December 1, 2015
Total Views: 71

anadarko deepwater millenium transocean mozambique well test
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Anadarko Ordered To Pay $159.5 Million For Deepwater Horizon Spill

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. was ordered to pay almost $160 million for its role as part-owner of the doomed Gulf of Mexico well that in 2010 caused the biggest

December 1, 2015
Total Views: 170

crude oil pricing chart
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Norway Faces Bleak Year Offshore

By Jonathan Saul and Ole Petter Skonnord (Reuters) LONDON/OSLO Norwegian companies that provide supply ships and drilling rigs to the global oil industry face

December 1, 2015
Total Views: 49

Tuesday, November 24, 2015
WATCH: Heidelberg Spar Upended in Gulf of Mexico
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WATCH: Heidelberg Spar Upended in Gulf of Mexico

Anadarko’s Heidelberg Spar has made the 400 mile trip from Ingleside, Texas to its new home at the Green Canyon 859 block in the deepwater Gulf of

November 24, 2015
Total Views: 364