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25 Apr 2018

Subsea 7: Offer Could Change if McDermott Cooperates

Norwegian offshore oil services firm Subsea 7 is open to potentially sweetening its $2 billion offer for McDermott if the U.S. company would work with it to identify additional benefits of a deal, Subsea said on Wednesday. The Norwegian firm's comments come a week before McDermott's shareholders vote on a planned combination with Chicago Bridge and Iron (CB&I), which McDermott's board has recommended its investors to support while rejected Subsea's proposal "Subsea 7 is open to considering amending its proposal if it can discover additional value through discussions with the McDermott management team," Subsea, one fifth owned by Norwegian billionaire Kristian Siem, said in a statement.

23 Apr 2018

Subsea 7 Makes Hostile Bid for McDermott

File Image: A Subsea 7 offshore support vessel. CREDIT: Subsea 7

Offshore oil services firm Subsea 7 has made an unsolicited offer worth about $2 billion for U.S. rival McDermott, potentially breaking up the U.S. company's agreed deal with onshore engineering firm Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I).The deal could make Oslo-listed Subsea 7 the market leader in supplying and installing subsea equipment for oil and gas firms with a combined market share of 24 percent, followed by TechnipFMC with 20 percent and Saipem with 15 percent, an Oslo-based consultancy…

23 Feb 2018

Schlumberger, Subsea 7 Mull Oil Services JV

(Photo: Subsea 7)

Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield services firm, and smaller peer Subsea 7 said on Friday they were entering exclusive talks to form a joint venture to deliver subsea installations and services for oilfields. The news lifted Subsea 7 shares on hopes the talks could be the first step towards a full takeover, in a sector that has already seen consolidation with the 2016 merger of Technip and FMC Technologies. In recent months, oil firms have returned to profits due to higher oil prices and the benefits of deep cost cuts they made during the downturn.

30 Aug 2016

OSV firm Farstad Continues Restructuring Talks

Supply firm Farstad Shipping's CEO Karl Johan Bakken repeats is in stand-still agreement with lenders until Oct. * CEO says Oct. * Farstad shares down 4.7 pct to 8.9 crowns at 1004 GMT compared to a rise of 0.5 pct in Oslo's benchmark share index.

13 May 2015

Siem Sells “Siem Sasha”

Norwegian company Siem Offshore has sold the platform supply vessel (PSV) “Siem Sasha”. It has delayed delivery of four of the nine platform support vessel (PSV) newbuildings it has under construction in Poland. The Oslo-listed company did not reveal financial details of the sale nor the client, but said the agreement was made at market terms. Siem Sasha is designed to carry out regular supply functions and cargo transport for the oil industry as well as Standby functions. The PSV was built in 2005. It is of VS 470 MK II design, 73, 4 meters long vessel and can accommodate 34 persons. The vessel had worked on a one-year contract for Nigeria’s Marine Platforms Limited since December 2013. This is Siem’s second vessel sale in the space of a month.

06 Jun 2013

Offshore Marriage of Interests Judged Successful

Sturla Henriksen, Director General of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association

Nor-Shipping 2013 'Agenda Offshore' hear the Director General of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association pronounce the marriage of maritime and offshore oil and gas industries interests a success. The offshore industry is “a legitimate child” of the marriage between oil and gas as well as maritime companies. “It is maybe a relationship driven more by cooperation and innovation than by love or passion – a bit of an arranged marriage maybe – but today the offspring of this relationship are the specialized vessels…

16 Apr 2013

Nor-Shipping 2013 Features Agenda Offshore Conference

Photo: Nor-Shipping

Building on the success of its first offshore conference in 2011, Nor-Shipping will again host Agenda Offshore on June 5, signifying the importance of the maritime industry as it increasingly moves offshore to service the oil and gas industry. Speakers Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil, and Andy Brown, the Upstream International Director of Royal Dutch Shell plc, will share their insights as major oil and gas companies that are dependent on the maritime supplier industry for their cutting-edge technology and sophisticated equipment and vessels.

06 Dec 1999

NCL Turns Down Carnival's $1.7B Takeover Bid

NCL Holding ASA flatly rejected a 30 crown ($3.72) per share takeover offer from Carnival Corp, saying it undervalued the group's potential. NCL Chairman Kristian Siem, who controls 14.9 percent of the Miami-based cruise company, said it would be a "waste of time" to even meet Carnival given the offered price. "To meet based on a price level of 30 crowns is a waste of time," Siem said. "It's very pleasant that Carnival values NCL, and this confirms that the company is fully able to survive on its own," he said. "The offer also represents a significant discount in relation to the pricing of other companies in the cruise industry," the board said.

10 Dec 1999

NCL In Talks With Singapore's Star Cruises

One week after spurning an offer from industry leader Carnival Cruise Lines, Norwegian cruise ships operator NCL Holding ASA is in talks with Singapore's Star Cruises Plc. Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line, the world's fourth-largest cruise operator, had rejected Carnival's 30 Norwegian crowns-a-share offer ($3.77) as too low and hinted rival takeover bids might surface. But NCL said it was not clear whether Star, the leading Asia-Pacific cruise line, would prove its savior. "Further information will be given if NCL receives a concrete bid from Star Cruises," NCL said. Carnival immediately challenged Star to come up with a better offer than its own made last week, which valued NCL at $884 million, or $1.7 billion with assumption of debt.

17 Dec 1999

NCL Shares Fall As Star Cruises Buys Stake

Shares in Norwegian cruise operator NCL Holding ASA fell six percent early last Wednesday after Singapore's Star Cruises bought a 20.6 percent stake but said it did not plan to bid for the entire company. NCL, which is currently the target of a hostile takeover from U.S. cruise giant Carnival Corp., said it had asked to meet Star to discuss possible options. "NCL has asked for a meeting with Star to map out what options the acquisition holds, compared with other possibilities the company is working on," NCL said. Star and related companies have now bought 51.4 million NCL shares, corresponding to 20.6 percent of the share capital. Star said that it had no intention at present to make any offer for NCL to counter the hostile bid from Carnival Corp.