Offshore
Nantong promotes Offshore
Shipyards in Nantong, China are struggling in shipbuilding sector, while their offshore business are steadily progressing, said Nantong Economic and Information Technology Commission of China. During the first six months of 2012, overall newbuilding ...
2012-08-30 06:33:32
Apache inks OSV newbuild
Neptune Marine Services and Bhagwan Marine have been awarded a five-year contract by Apache to supply a newbuilding dive support vessel in Western Australia. Neptune said the newbuilding will be a 56-metre hybrid catamaran, with permanent air divi...
2012-08-29 06:59:23
CIMC Raffles wins jack-up
Singapore-based rig owner is said to be ordering a pair of jack-up drilling rigs at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China. Industry sources said the Chinese offshore faility specialist yard is about to secure a contract from Hans van Royen Drillin...
2012-08-29 06:54:05
Subsea market doubles
Expenditure on global subsea vessel operations is forecast to reach over $77bn during the next five years. Douglas-Westwood, in its latest 'World Subsea Vessel Operations Market Forecast 2012-2016' report, said this represents an increase of 63% o...
2012-08-29 06:45:40
Big3 eye more deepwater rigs
Korea's major shipyards are expected to win additional deep-water drillships and semi-submersible rigs before long. Greek owner DryShips is planning to order more new drillships through its subsidiary Ocean Rig. The owner is sitting on three drill...
2012-08-29 06:37:30
DSIC wins Norwegian drillship
China's Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co (DSIC) is in talks with an undisclosed offshore drilling facility company of Norway to build one small multi-function drillship. Local sources said that the drillship is to be operated in the North Sea and t...
2012-08-29 06:27:05
Samsung & Hyundai await rig orders
Oslo-listed offshore and deepwater driller Seadrill now holds fixed-price options to order one more ultra-deepwater newbuilding drillship and one ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig. The marine rig owner already has six drillships under construct...
2012-08-28 10:49:02
Daewoo-Paenal net platforms
Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Angola-based PAENAL have secured a contract from oil major Chevron to build five fixed oil production and processing platforms. The offshore platforms will be used for work offshore the M...
2012-08-28 06:46:01
Subsea spending to surge
Expenditure on subsea vessel operations is set to exceed $77bn worldwide over the next five years, a leading industry consultancy forecast. This represents an increase of 63% over the previous five-year period, according to Douglas-Westwood’s Wo...
2012-08-28 06:30:38
Korea opens Offshore R&D
Opening ceremony for Offshore Plant Equipment R&D Center is held in Busan, Korea, on August 28. The Offshore R&D Center, which aims to boost domestic offshore plant industry and localize related equipment, will develop key technologies for high-va...
2012-08-28 06:21:02
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