April 2024
As the events surrounding the Baltimore bridge collapse and the M/V Dali cargo ship unfold, we look at what we know so far. Offshore wind and oil & gas are also examined.
oil & gas
ABS appoints Miguel Hernandez to lead global offshore
Miguel Hernandez, formerly general manager of sales and marketing at MODEC, has been named senior vice president of offshore business development at ABS. In that role he is leading ABS’s global offshore
Court invalidates giant U.S. Gulf lease sale
In a ruling yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Rudolph Contreras invalidated the Department of Interior’s decision to offer 80 million acres in the Gulf of
Valaris announces multiple offshore contracts
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris Limited (NYSE: VAL) has kicked off the New Year by announcing a flurry of contracts. Today it reported that it has been awarded the following new contracts: One-well
10 Minutes with Crowley’s Jonathan Zier
At March’s TTB 2021, Jonathan Zier, manager-business development of offshore services for Crowley Maritime, spoke on tug and barge opportunities for U.S. offshore wind installations. Last month, Zier told us more. Marine
GoM lease sale pulls in $242.2 million in high bids
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management reports that today’s oil and gas Lease Sale 252 generated $244,299,344 in high bids for 227 tracts covering 1,261,133.85 acres in federal waters of the Gulf
Shipyard cuts steel for Qatar’s first offshore living quarters platform
JANUARY 9, 2019 — Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) has held a steel cutting ceremony at the Erhama bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard for the first offshore living quarters to be fabricated
DNV GL publishes guideline on use of additive manufacturing
DECEMBER 15, 2017 — DNV GL has published the first classification guideline for the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in the maritime and oil & gas industries. Additive manufacturing is a term
GoM Lease Sale 249 bidders still focused on deepwater
AUGUST 16, 2017 — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that the region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 249 generated $121,143,055 in high bids for 90 tracts covering 508,096
How to make risk assessments more dynamic
MAY 2, 2017 — DNV GL has launched a position paper showing how risk assessments can be made more dynamic, to provide improved and real-time decision support during operations. Static quantitative risk