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AREA REPORTS 19 Gulf of Mexico: With a continued uptick in deepwater drilling activity in the US Gulf of Mexico, the market for DP2 vessels is beginning to tighten 23 North Sea: the North Sea spot market looks set to be busy from a vessel owner’s perspective this summer
35 Southeast Asia: Fearnley Offshore Supply says “recovery is definitely on the horizon”, and notes that new orders are being placed on a weekly basis
Oceanteam Shipping’s new lay vessel, CSV North Ocean 105, which is jointly owned by J Ray McDermott (Norway), was delivered in May
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24 North Sea: owners of large anchor-handling tug/ supply (AHTS) vessels look set for a busy summer on the North Sea spot market 27 Brazil: Brazilian port terminal and logistics company Grupo Libra has decided to join dozens of other companies – both international and Brazilian owned – and enter the offshore sector 31 West Africa: rising demand for oilfield support work has led to a stream of OSV charters and contracts in Nigeria; in Angola, survey work is underway to enhance reserve recovery in deepwater 33 Caspian/Mediterranean: Dragon Oil is tendering for the construction and installation of new platforms and pipelines for its Cheleken projects and RWE Dea has commenced exploration work
36 Southeast Asia: Singaporean shipyard Keppel Singmarine, part of Keppel Offshore & Marine, is on schedule to deliver a new-generation fallpipe vessel to Dutch company Boskalis 39 Australasia: Major Australian energy projects continue to fuel the offshore support industry, with a number of contracts being announced recently 43 Middle East: the Middle East offshore construction sector is booming, with shipyards busy building specialised vessels and rigs for the world’s offshore oil and renewables projects 46 Shipowners and contractors are gaining new contracts from offshore oil and gas projects in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar
DYNAMIC POSITIONING 49 A seminar held in the UK highlighted the fact that the GPS signals on which the offshore and other industries increasingly rely, remain vulnerable to intentional and unintentional interference
BULK HANDLING/TANK CLEANING 53 PG Marine Group in Norway is collaborating with German pump manufacturer Putzmeister Solid Pumps to address the growing market for handling and transporting drill cuttings
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