Offshore
Big3 spur into offshore
Amid depressed commercial ship newbuilding market, South Korea's large shipyards are replacing its vacancy with high-value ultra-large offshore plants. Recently, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering contracted two semi-submersible drilling rig...
2012-05-09 06:59:04
Korea into subsea project
A consortium, composed of South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Samsung HI, etc., is pushing ahead to participate in the Ministry of Knowledge Economy's subsea offshore plant project, starting from July, so...
2012-05-08 11:17:27
Petrobras inks $1.7bn FPSOs
Petrobras signed a $1.7bn contract for four FPSO conversions with a consortium made up of Odebrecht, OAS and UTC, the Brazilian oil major said Monday. The job is converting four Very Large Crude Carriers into Floating Production Storage & Offloadi...
2012-05-08 08:09:12
Swire to order offshore vessels
Swire Pacific, a Hong Kong-listed offshore support vessel owner, is prepared to spend as much as HKD $11bn ($1.4bn) in a bid to tap into rising offshore oil production. Chairman Christopher Pratt said, “If oil is more expensive, people spend mo...
2012-05-08 07:52:56
Koreans score offshore rigs
Orders for offshore drilling rigs, such as drillship, semi-submersible drilling rig, etc., become heated again. Following after South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries having contracted one drillship and one optional more from Seadrill of Norway ea...
2012-05-08 06:58:10
Hyundai Samho nets semi-sub
May 4, 2012 - To benefit from the current strong demand for high specification drilling units Seadrill announced that it has entered into a turnkey construction contract with Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for the construction of a new harsh environm...
2012-05-07 07:04:25
China's threatening chase
Chinese shipbuilding industry has come to an impasse, amid troubled commercial ship market. On technological basis, "China's delivery per person, which represents yard productivity, only remains at 30% of those in South Korea and Japan. Also, its loc...
2012-05-07 07:01:40
Daewoo signs semi-sub rigs
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea has successfully booked an order for offshore facilities at an OTC (Offshore Technology Conference) 2012 in Houston, the US. Daewoo contracted for two semi-submersible drilling rigs with Song...
2012-05-07 06:55:23
Yards invited bid for NLNG
Shipyards have finally received tender documents from Nigeria LNG (NLNG) detailing the vessels required for the liquefaction producer’s fleet-renewal programme. Industry sources say yards have until 18 May to submit technical offers for six 170,000...
2012-05-04 12:22:30
Nordic "Offshore Transformer" project
Largest offshore transformer platform of its type currently under construction worldwide Sylwin Alpha will be installed west of Sylt to provide the grid connection for DanTysk and Butendiek offshore wind farms. Wismar, Rostock-Warnemünde May ...
2012-05-04 07:38:09
Start  Prev  601  602  603  604  605  606  607  608  609  610  Next  End