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Perth-based OSV operator MMA Offshore, a subsidiary of Cyan Renewables, has won a multi-year platform supply vessel contract from Chevron in Australia. The contract was awarded to the 2015-built high-specification PSV MMA Plover. It will provide marine logistics support to Chevron’s Barrow Island and Wheatstone assets, located off the coast of Western Australia. The assets …
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https://splash247.com/mma-offshore-gets-psv-work-off-australia-with-chevron/Offshore drilling unit of Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has won a contract for one of its jackup rigs from Phu Quoc Petroleum Operating Company (PQPOC) in Vietnam. The contract was awarded to the 2013-built Naga 4 jackup, which was hired to drill over 40 wells for the Vietnamese firm. The deal for the independent-leg cantilever jackup …
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https://splash247.com/velesto-jackup-to-drill-over-40-wells-in-vietnam/A fire at Chevron’s deepwater Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform off Angola left 17 injured, including four critically. The fire broke out around 3 am local time in the basement of the multi-story production platform. All personnel have been accounted for, according to Chevron. The platform has living quarters for approximately 157 people. …
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https://splash247.com/fire-at-chevrons-oil-platform-off-angola-injures-17/Young people are happy to move about a lot and crewing managers and shipowners need to bear this in mind, writes Henrik Jensen, the CEO of Danica Crewing Specialists. It isn’t a reflection on their crewing services but just a reality of modern life. Things have changed in the job market, he stresses in this …
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https://splash247.com/manage-not-only-retention-but-also-fluctuation/Singapore-based dry bulk operator SeaTrek has unveiled a new leadership line-up with some well known names joining the Asifur Chowdhury-founded company. The company has appointed long-time Swire employee Rob Aarvold as global CEO. As well as Swire, Aavold’s career has seen him work at broker SSY and Western Bulk Chartering. Aarvold said: “I am honoured …
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https://splash247.com/rob-aarvold-takes-the-reins-at-seatrek/John Fredriksen’s SFL Corporation continues to offload bulk carriers at pace. The company has sold its tenth bulker in 2025, the 14-year-old, 57,000 dwt SFL Sara, built at Xiamen Shipyard, fetching $11.2m from undisclosed Chinese interests. The sale follows a recent transaction of a sister vessel, SFL Yukon, to Fujian Highton Development—one of China’s most …
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https://splash247.com/john-fredriksens-sfl-offloads-another-bulker/Bulker operator Norvic Shipping has set out to expand its fleet with a handymax newbuild. The AJ Rahman-led outfit has penned a long-term charter deal with a “renowned Japanese shipowner” for the 42,000 dwt bulker, which will be built at Oshima Shipyard. The vessel, to be named Norvic Athens, is scheduled for delivery in the …
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https://splash247.com/norvic-shipping-signs-for-handymax-newbuild/The European Commission has announced the selection of 15 renewable hydrogen production projects for public funding, including three related to providing fuel for ships.The projects, located across five countries, are expected to produce nearly 2.2 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen over 10 years…
https://www.marinelink.com/news/eu-boots-renewable-hydrogen-development-525967
https://www.marinelink.com/news/eu-boots-renewable-hydrogen-development-525967The EU and Britain announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday without waiting for Washington to join them, a day after President Donald Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin brought about neither a ceasefire in Ukraine nor fresh U.S.
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https://www.marinelink.com/news/eu-britain-press-ahead-new-russia-525968Coast Guard vessels of the Philippines and the United States have taken part for the first time in joint maritime exercises with naval and air force units in the contested South China Sea, Manila's armed forces said on Wednesday.The exercises…
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