Offshore
Lamprell wins jack-up
Middle East rig builder Lamprell has been awarded an order from Mexican player Pemsa for construction of an unfinished jack-up rig. The Friede & Goldman-designed Super M2 unit, named Hull 108, was under construction by Maritime Industrial Service...
2011-12-29 07:54:01
Offshore & Special Vessels Rise
Shipping market of bulker, tanker, containership being pressured by over-tonnage, newbuilding market for commercial ship in 2012 would be more clouded than this year. Moreover, shrinking global ship financing drives shipbuilding market further int...
2011-12-29 07:04:32
Statoil mulls using FPSO
Statoil is to develop its breakthrough Skrugard discovery in the Barents Sea using a floating production unit. Such a facility would have additional capacity to process and export output from other prospects in the area and would enable a “rapi...
2011-12-28 07:51:25
Hyundai awarded Chevron platforms
Chevron has awarded a key contract for the Escravo Phase 3B gas development off Nigeria. The gas project will see the addition of two platforms to bump up the output by another 420 million cubic feet per day from the end of 2014. Industry sou...
2011-12-28 07:18:22
COSCO wins FPSO conversion
COSCO Corporation has won a contract to convert a VLCC into a floating production storage and offloading vessel for a Japanese owner. The Singapore-listed company will turn the 302,000-dwt Sunrise J (ex: Sunrise Jewel,built 1992) into a unit with...
2011-12-28 07:15:18
Daewoo urges state aid for "Subsea"
President Nam Sang-Tae of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said that South Korean shipbuilders need governmental support for subsea facilities sector, in which Korea had not deeply entered yet. Daewoo-built 'Pazflor FPSO' was the world fir...
2011-12-27 12:11:34
Daewoo focus on offshore
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s second-largest shipbuilder, expects new orders to drop 23 percent next year as shipping lines struggle with an oversupply of vessels and falling rates. New contracts worth $11 billion may be ...
2011-12-27 08:09:24
PetroBangla FSRU tender
State-owned PetroBangla has invited pre-qualified parties to submit bids to provide a floating LNG regasification terminal. They include a pairing of Excelerate Energy and Astra Oil, Golar LNG, Samsung C&T and India’s Hirandani Private Co, whic...
2011-12-27 07:48:19
2011: Offshore Dash
Offshore plant age has arrived in shipbuilding market, with new order for offshore facilities, such as drillship, semi-submersible drilling rig, FPSO, etc., having exceeded that for commercial ship this year. Demand for offshore facility increased...
2011-12-27 07:11:56
Brazil to boost drillship market
Shinyoung Securities forecast on 26 December, "Oil giant Petrobras of Brazil backed out from its previous plan to placing new order at domestic builder, which would be a good news to drillship market." Shinyoung gave an overweight opinion on South...
2011-12-26 11:19:51
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