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Japanese offshore contractor Eneos Drilling has won a second jackup contract in two days with Murphy Oil. The company said that it agreed to provide jackup drilling services to subsidiaries of Murphy Oil based on a subcontract with PetroVietnam Drilling & Well Service Corporation, which secured the drilling contract from Murphy. The rig in question …
https://splash247.com/murphy-oil-hires-another-eneos-drilling-jackup-for-vietnam-ops/
https://splash247.com/murphy-oil-hires-another-eneos-drilling-jackup-for-vietnam-ops/Oslo-listed jackup rig player Shelf Drilling has won a one-year contract extension for one of its rigs. Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, a Chevron subsidiary, extended the contract for the 2007-built Shelf Drilling Tenacious rig for drilling operations offshore West Africa. The extension will begin in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract, extending the commitment …
https://splash247.com/shelf-drilling-secures-50m-jackup-extension-from-chevron-in-west-africa/
https://splash247.com/shelf-drilling-secures-50m-jackup-extension-from-chevron-in-west-africa/This September, British endurance swimmer Andrew Cornish, a business development manager at AXSMarine, will attempt one of the most demanding feats in open-water swimming – a solo 70 km swim across Lake Geneva – to raise funds for the medical charity Mercy Ships. The challenge, officially known as Lake Geneva Signature Swim, covers the entire …
https://splash247.com/axsmarine-employee-readies-to-swim-70-km-across-lake-geneva/
https://splash247.com/axsmarine-employee-readies-to-swim-70-km-across-lake-geneva/Nigerian tanker buyers have stepped up their activity this summer, snapping up three ships from June onwards — more than doubling their deal count for the year, according to data from VesselsValue. To date, seven secondhand tanker acquisitions have been tracked to Nigeria in 2025. The latest round of deals includes Triber Energy, which has …
https://splash247.com/nigerian-tanker-buyers-step-up-with-trio-of-summer-deals/
https://splash247.com/nigerian-tanker-buyers-step-up-with-trio-of-summer-deals/Greece’s Navios Maritime Partners has confirmed the acquisition of two scrubber-fitted aframax/LR2 tanker resales, lifting its orderbook in the segment to 12 vessels. The Angeliki Frangou-led company is paying $133m for the pair of 115,000 dwt newbuilds, which are scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2027. The identity of the seller has not …
https://splash247.com/navios-partners-picks-up-two-resale-lr2s-in-133m-deal/
https://splash247.com/navios-partners-picks-up-two-resale-lr2s-in-133m-deal/A Greek shipbroker has been the focus of the latest sanctions from the US aimed at stifling Iranian oil exports. Antonios Margaritis, his network of companies, and nearly a dozen vessels involved in Iran’s shadow fleet were singled out by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) yesterday, the latest in …
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https://splash247.com/greek-shipbroker-the-main-focus-of-latest-us-sanctions-against-iran/Vlassis Papapanagis, chief commercial officer at Tototheo Global, writes for Splash today. Digitalisation and AI are reshaping shipping, promising safer, smarter and more environmentally responsible operations. This is particularly acute in the absence of a clear pathway for alternative fuels. As companies accelerate their use of technologies to optimise operations, the pathway to progress is …
https://splash247.com/taking-a-reality-check-on-shippings-digitalisation/
https://splash247.com/taking-a-reality-check-on-shippings-digitalisation/The containership market led Splash coverage this week, with the orderbook climbing to record levels and analysts warning of a prolonged supply glut. The global orderbook now stands at 10.4m teu, or 31.7% of the existing fleet, the highest since 2010. Linerlytica cautioned that the industry is on track for another decade-long overhang, similar to …
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https://splash247.com/splash-wrap-boxship-orders-dominate-as-carriers-face-oversupply-reality/Bill Gates, in his role as founder of TerraPower, met with HD Hyundai’s executive vice-chairman Chung Kisun in Seoul today to further a strategic partnership aiming to commercialise small modular reactor (SMR) propulsion. The meeting—after their March rendezvous in the US—centred on scaling up supply chains and advancing Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor tech for power …
https://splash247.com/bill-gates-in-korea-to-further-nuclear-powered-ships-project-with-hd-hyundai/
https://splash247.com/bill-gates-in-korea-to-further-nuclear-powered-ships-project-with-hd-hyundai/Orient Overseas (International) Ltd (OOIL), the listed entity of Hong Kong container line OOCL, has conceded that October’s likely introduction of extra port fees for Chinese-linked tonnage could be painful. OOCL, owned by China’s COSCO, posted its interims yesterday in which it noted in a release that the potential extra port charges levied by the …
https://splash247.com/oocl-admits-upcoming-us-port-fees-will-have-relatively-large-impact/
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