Then irt has started, the first offshore drilling contractor has filed for Chapt.11 protection: [image] Diamond Offshore Drilling files for chapter 11 - US offshore driller Diamond Offshore Drilling filed for chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District Texas (Houston)…

Russian oil giant Rosneft scoffed at BP’s predictions and has said it’s eager to scoop up any market share that European oil majors make available by shifting their investments from oil and gas to renewables. [image] BP Ignores Oil Market Fundamentals In Latest Energy Outlook The late…

Less and less people produce more of the food we eat in developed countries and how good it is for our general health is an argument I will leave for another day. Pretty much all of this food is produced with the assistance of the humble and not so humble tractor. In trying to achieve a zero emissi…

500kW and some muppet said it has an endurance of 33 hours before charging. If that were true on batteries, I would be on the phone to my broker.

Now if we could just get some autonomous pea and lettuce pickers THAT would be an accomplishment. Easy to cultivate, plant and harvest grain such as corn, wheat, soybeans etc with a machine but the harvesting is a pain in the back when it comes to lettuce, tomatoes and other vegetables.

do any corn farms run all machinery on ethanol?

[image] Don’t Go Chasing (Deep) Waterfalls: The Future of Drillship Financing The oil majors’ retreat from frontier plays limits future drillship demand with deepwater, investment looks limited to Brazil and Guyana… Good synopsis here with some fun math on drills…

here is some more analysis on Transocean’s condition …very bleak indeed Transocean has just provided its new fleet status report which is especially interesting to evaluate given current market conditions. Without further ado, let’s look at the changes that happened since the previous fleet status …

[Cynical Asshole] Basically everybody in the GoM right now.

[image] shipengr: Also mentioned that if some company still has cash to buy one of the roughly 20 distressed new rigs languishing at build yards on the cheap they could actually make money, given a contract. this is very sadly the whole dilemma in a nutshell…originally very expensive ships ar…

One problem is the lack of clear laws governing deep sea mining at the moment. It is partly covered in UNCLOS, but not in details. That the US has not ratified UNCLOS make it even more difficult to know what is possible to do and what is not. PS> A drillship (SEDCO 445) was used to test the techn…

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Pacific Drilling (and others) Chapter 11 Maritime News	150	15748	July 28, 2021
Deep sea mining Offshore	37	5661	December 6, 2024
Offshore Oil & Gas news Offshore	300	18942	October 17, 2026
Transocean Cut to Junk Status Offshore	20	6792	April 19, 2015
Shouldn't say that this comes as a huge surprise Offshore	30	5460	March 9, 2014

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