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Mitigating Offshore Integration Risk as Project Complexity Grows
GLO Marine’s investment in its production facilities benefits offshore owners, providing a single source of contact, from engineering to deck, with control and visibility through the entire project chain.
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Middle East OSV Market at a Crossroads After Gulf Conflict
After several years of strong activity, the Middle East offshore market has become more volatile, with geopolitical tensions disrupting day-to-day operations. Following US and Israeli military action and subsequent Iranian attacks on neighbouring Gulf states, operators introduced precautionary measures, including temporary rig suspensions and down-manning in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.
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Stabbert Maritime ditches steel wire for synthetic rope on 6,000m deepwater vessel
Seattle-based operator Stabbert Maritime has retrofitted its multipurpose support vessel Ocean Guardian with a TechIce® synthetic hoisting system after steel wire rope began constraining crew access and workflow during continuous deepwater operations.
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Eldorado-Vantage Merger Signals Continued Offshore Drilling Consolidation
At the end of May 2026, Vantage Drilling International and Eldorado Drilling signed a merger agreement under which Eldorado will acquire Vantage, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. While modest in scale, the merger reflects a continued strategic push toward consolidation and scale-building in the offshore drilling rig sector.
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Oil Majors Reload Exploration Hoppers Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Faced with declining production post-2030, across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the Majors have started the process of reloading exploration hoppers. Targeting predominantly deep and ultra-deep waters, they have signed numerous agreements aimed at unlocking acreage and discovering the next Namibia or Guyana.
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From Fixtures to Values: Where the Jackup Recovery Is Already Being Priced
Premium jackup dayrates have improved from 2025 lows and are now holding within a higher range, but pricing remains uneven across fixtures and geographies. That is important, but dayrates are only the starting point. On their own, they say very little about how much of that recovery is already priced into company valuations.
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The Delegation Clause
A Key Locking the Courthouse Doors Unless Precisely and Appropriately Targeted
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Extending the Gulf of America’s Energy Advantage
The Gulf of America produces roughly 2 million barrels of oil per day, supports hundreds of thousands of jobs, and runs on decades of accumulated infrastructure, expertise, and investment. A new report from NOIA and API, prepared by EIAP, makes the case for what comes next, and the numbers behind it are hard to ignore.
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Floating Nuclear: A New Offshore Energy Frontier
For decades, floating nuclear power occupied a niche position in the energy debate – technically feasible, strategically intriguing, but commercially marginal. Today, however, combined pressures of decarbonization, energy security, land constraints, rising electricity demand and water scarcity are making floating nuclear power a more serious proposition for policymakers, utilities, and infrastructure
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Digital by Design
ABS helps blaze the digitization path that is reshaping offshore energy.
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Organized Lightning
Understanding the Evolution of Marine Electrical Systems
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Plugging Orphan Wells Underwater:
Why Marine Operations Are a Different Beast Entirely
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Propulsion Technical Feature:
Schottel SRP-D: DP-Optimized Rudder Propeller for Offshore Ops
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