Offshore
Siem inks special OSV
Norway's Siem Offshore has entered into a shipbuilding contract for an offshore support vessel (OSV) with compatriot shipbuilder Fjellstrand AS. The contract is for the construction of one Installation Support Vessel, with option for one additiona...
2012-10-11 06:46:10
Hyundai signs LNG-FSRU
Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a contract to build one 170,000-cbm LNG FSRU, valued in around $270m, with Höegh LNG during 'Gastech 2012' held in London. Höegh LNG has exercised an option for a fourth new floating storage and regasi...
2012-10-10 11:24:54
LR certifies first FLNG
Lloyd’s Register is overseeing the world’s largest floating offshore facility which will operate in north-western Australia’s Browse Basin. The FLNG Prelude project, which is 488 metres long and has a turret two-thirds the height of the famo...
2012-10-10 07:32:31
Korean plant orders halved
Korea's total amount of overseas plant order contracted during the third quarter of 2012 recorded $8.7bn, declined by 48.5% YoY, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) and the Korea Plant Industries Association announced on October 9. Due to poor...
2012-10-10 07:07:06
Sentinel inks more PSVs
Singapore's Sentinel Marine has returned to a Chinese shipyard for another two platform supply newbuildings. The 6,000-bhp vessels are the third and fourth in a series of vessels. The shipowner said the recently signed ships were options. Th...
2012-10-10 06:39:23
JES pens its first PSV
SINGAPORE - 8 October 2012 - Mainboard-listed JES International Holdings Limited (“JES” or the “Group”), a major shipbuilding group based in the PRC, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a shipbuilding contract for one unit of UT 7...
2012-10-09 07:28:12
LNGC order gap?
Currently most LNG carrier newbuilding inquiries are said to be for remote delivery schedules in 2017 and 2018. Korean shipyards are chasing LNG-carrier newbuilding orders amid order drought in ordinary commercial ships. But just 22 new LNG car...
2012-10-09 07:01:07
FLNG construction starts
Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries is to hold a steel-cutting ceremony for Royal Dutch Shell's first 3.6-mtpa LNG-FPSO (FLNG) unit this month. In the first half of next year, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering plans to cut steel for Malaysian en...
2012-10-09 06:52:18
Floating production to double
Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast between 2013 and 2017 $91bn will be spent on floating production systems (FPS) – an increase of 100% over the preceding five-year period. In Douglas-Westwood’s new World Floating Production Market Forecast 20...
2012-10-08 10:04:21
Hyundai in talks for Moss LNGC
Hyundai Heavy Industries is said to be in talks for newbuilding Moss-type LNG carrier with unnamed Russian owner. Amid increasing demand for liquefied natural gas caused by plummeting oil prices and hazardous nuclear power generation, Russian owne...
2012-10-08 07:04:49
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