Popular offshore industry news in 4Q 2019

The most popular news at Offshore Energy Today during the fourth quarter of 2019.

Most read articles in October

• Australia: Offshore worker seriously injured after drill line falls on rig deck
• Valaris secures batch of new contracts for rig fleet
• Norway: Former oil minister to become offshore oil worker, report says
• Transocean delays Jurong drillship delivery again
• Norway’s oil fund now worth NOK 10 trillion
• Bourbon Rhode sinking: Fourth crew member confirmed dead
• Bourbon gets takeover offer
• Merger on the cards between Keppel O&M and Sembcorp Marine?
• Bourbon calls off search for missing sailors. Petition launched for search to continue

Most read articles in November

• Saipem-Subsea 7 merger would create the fourth-largest oilfield service firm, Rystad says
• Seven Swire workers kidnapped in pirate attack offshore E. Guinea
• Fire breaks out on seismic vessel in Senegal
• Pacific Drilling finds work for two drillships
• ADNOC Drilling to buy ‘dozens’ of drilling rigs by 2025
• Court: North Sea Producer FPSO beaching, scrapping in Bangladesh illegal
• Report: Petrobras sells ultra-deepwater drillship for $15 million
• Saipem gets another subsea job on ExxonMobil’s Guyana project
• Tullow, Eco shares nosedive as Guyana discoveries ‘heavy oil’
• Borr Drilling: Demand for jack-up rigs growing

Most read articles in December

• ExxonMobil, EnQuest hire Stena drillship and semi-sub
• Investor pushes for Valaris shareholders meeting amid ‘grave concerns’ about performance
• Sembcorp Marine bags $405 million order to build platforms for two giant offshore projects
• Banks take over struggling French vessel owner Bourbon
• Apache decides to drill deeper at its first Suriname well
• Transocean lands one-year gig offshore Trinidad
• Shell in ‘significant’ gas discovery offshore Australia
• SBM Offshore orders two more FPSO hulls in China citing rise in demand
• Oil leaks from Equinor’s offshore platform only days after marking 40 years of production
• ExxonMobil makes history in Guyana as Liza Destiny FPSO produces first oil

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