Offshore
Daewoo wins Aker drillships
Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Aker Drilling for the delivery of two advanced ultra-deepwater drillships, and the option for delivery of two additional same ships. The price pe...
2011-01-21 07:20:37
Sembcorp Marine inks $182m rig
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has signed another turnkey contract to build a jack-up rig with Atwood Oceanics Pacific Limited (“AOPL”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics Inc. Priced up to US$182 million, the jack-up ri...
2011-01-21 07:09:27
New challenger for offshore: Hyundai Samho
Korea's Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries is entering into the offshore plant market in a full scale, getting out of a single business portfolio of shipbuilding. Oh Byeong-uk (pictured), representative director and president of Hyundai Samho, has re...
2011-01-21 06:40:27
2010: 24 FPSO orders
In 2010, 24 FPSO orders were signed, up to the level of pre-crisis time. During 2005 to 2008, the annual average orders of FPSOs reached 26 units. From 4th quarter of 2008, the figure began slumping while recovered from the second half of 2009. Th...
2011-01-20 10:42:10
Orders, deliveries, backlog all rise: China
China's shipbuilding orders completed in 2010 reached 65.6m dwt, up 54.6 percent year on year, Ministry of Industry and Information technology (MIIT) revealed. New ship orders received during the year amounted to 75.23m dwt, up 2.9 times y-o-y. ...
2011-01-20 08:14:46
Noble inks drillship charter LOI
New York-listed Noble Corp says it has inked a letter of intent (LOI) with a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell for a newbuilding that is expected to commence operations in the second half of 2013, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchan...
2011-01-19 09:05:46
AHTS newbuild quartet canceled?
Germany's ER Schiffahrt has reportedly axed a quartet of offshore support vessel newbuildings which had been ordered at Sekwang Heavy Industries of Korea. The German owner said the delays in completion to the anchor-handling tug supply (AHTS) uni...
2011-01-19 08:16:51
MOL sends 50 technicians to China
Japan's shipping company, MOL, will send around 50 technicians to the LNG carrier building site in China. Investing about JPY 100bn ($12bn), MOL sends the technicians in the largest scale in history to Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, which is going...
2011-01-18 11:32:55
Sembawang awarded research ship
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard has secured a newbuilding and three major upgrading contracts totalling S$215 million. The first contract is awarded by Teekay Shipping (Australia) Pty Ltd for the Engineering, Procurement, Constru...
2011-01-18 07:26:03
Offshore biz emerges fast
Offshore plant projects are emerging fast as a new growth engine in Korea's shipbuilding industry. Total new order target of Korea's big seven shipyards, including Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy I...
2011-01-18 06:49:41
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