3 September 2026
The phantom number refuses to go away and is haunting Australia’s economy, investors, boardrooms and government.
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3 September 2026
Odfjell Drilling is set to recover around $37m after Norway’s Supreme Court refused to hear a tax authority appeal, drawing a line under a years-long dispute linked to former group company Odfjell Offshore. The Supreme Court’s appeals committee declined to admit the Norwegian Tax Authority’s challenge to an April ruling from the Gulating Court of …
3 September 2026
Mexico’s Pemex has launched an international tender for a high-specification jackup to work in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The state energy company is seeking an independent-leg cantilever unit capable of operating in water depths of at least 400 ft and drilling to a minimum depth of 30,000 ft. The package also includes …
3 September 2026
The controversial Conservation Amendment Bill clause says the Department of Conservation should recognise and enable "economic opportunities" on conservation land to "the greatest extent practicable".
3 September 2026
Wood has secured a five-year engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning framework from Serica Energy aimed at extending the life of the Bruce platform in the UK North Sea beyond 2030. The Aberdeen-based contractor will carry out project delivery, offshore construction and commissioning work under the agreement, which builds on a relationship with Serica dating back …
3 September 2026
One seafarer has died and six remain missing after the tug TNS Catcher capsized while assisting a containership off Busan yesterday. The 286-tonne tug overturned at around 1. 29pm, about 9 km east of Oryukdo, while working with two other tugs to manoeuvre the MSC Ikaria VI, a 5,576 teu, Liberia-flagged containership. Of the eight people …
3 September 2026
US importers could face a new layer of paperwork, technology requirements and potential cargo delays under plans being considered by US Customs and Border Protection to gain far greater visibility into international supply chains. CBP has opened consultation on sweeping changes that could require importers to provide documentation originally filed with foreign customs authorities, identify …
3 September 2026
Norwegian authorities have seized the Russian state-owned Professor Molchanov in Svalbard as Ukraine steps up efforts to recover billions of dollars awarded over assets confiscated by Moscow following its annexation of Crimea. The expedition cruise vessel was arrested at Barentsburg on September 2 following an order from the Nord-Troms District Court, which granted Ukrainian state …
