
Mercy Ships’ civilian hospital ship, Global Mercy, has completed deep water sea trials and soon will head to Belgium for equipping before it starts its mission in Africa in early 2022.

Petrofac has secured a contract with BP to develop operational procedures for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project in Mauritania and Senegal.

The BP-led Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project on the maritime border of Mauritania and Senegal is progressing.

Vantage Drilling has been awarded several new contracts, which will see its rigs operate in South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa.

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is offering to slash the compensation bill for Ever Given’s March grounding in the waterway from $900 million to $600 million, according to the canal’s chairman Osama Rabie. While speaking to a local television channel MBC Masr, Rabie is quoted as saying by Bloomberg,

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A wide-ranging human rights checklist has been issued to business enterprises engaged with the maritime industry to protect seafarers stranded on ships due to new COVID-19 variants and government-imposed travel restrictions.

A court in Egypt has rejected the appeal made by Shoei Kisen Kaisha, the owner of Ever Given, for the release of the containership and return to its country of origin.

Tema LNG terminal in Ghana, the first offshore LNG receiving terminal in sub-Saharan Africa, is expecting to receive its first LNG cargo at the end of May.

French oil major Total has started production from the Zinia Phase 2 short-cycle project located in Block 17 offshore Angola.

BW Energy has not encountered hydrocarbons in the target Gamba reservoir of its Hibiscus Extension appraisal well off Gabon.

The now restructured and debt-relieved offshore drilling contractor Valaris has been awarded sixteen new contracts and extensions with more than a dozen different oil and gas companies.