Offshore
AOD cans jack-up option
Asia Offshore Drilling has abandoned a $184m option to build a fourth jack-up rig at Singapore's Keppel FELS. Oslo-listed AOD says the decision was motivated by prevailing uncertainty and volatility in the financial markets. “The board's ob...
2011-09-30 07:08:17
Keppel wins FSU/FPSO
Keppel Shipyard has bagged SGD 142m ($109.4m) worth of contracts to convert and upgrade vessels into floating storage units (FSUs) for three different clients. Singapore-listed parent Keppel Corp says the first project involves Malaysian giant MI...
2011-09-30 07:02:33
MODEC wins FPSO
Japan's Modec and Brazil's Schahin Group will convert very large crude carrier Sunrise J into a floating production storage and offloading vessel for use in Brazil. The two companies will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construct...
2011-09-30 06:53:41
ZPMC inks three offshore cranes
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) of China announced on September 28th that it won three 1,600-ton floating cranes from No1 Engineering Company Limited of CCCC First Harbor Engineering, No3 Engineering Company Limited of CCCC First Harbor Engi...
2011-09-29 13:58:53
Japan to order 15 LNG carriers
Japanese power and gas companies are forecast to charter in as many as 15 new LNG carriers in the next couple of years. In March this year NYK was already been awarded an LNG carrier charter contract from Tokyo Electric Power and the shipowner pla...
2011-09-29 07:52:23
DNV updates offshore wind
DNV's recognized standard for design of offshore wind turbine structures has been through a revision process together with the wind energy industry. The updated standard which aims to reduce cost and increase safety is now available. The standard...
2011-09-29 07:29:47
SCF eyes 20 LNG carriers
Russian state-owned shipowner Sovcomflot could need as many as 20 new LNG vessels to service the Shtokman gas field. The company’s deputy chief Evgeny Ambrosov told reporters that building the 1B ice-class carriers could cost $4bn. The Shtok...
2011-09-29 07:24:37
Japan ready to counterattack
Japanese major shipbuilders are moving briskly forward on demand-boosted offshore business. IHIMU is now actively promoting its sales of LNG-FPSO and LNG-FSRU and Universal Shipbuilding Corporation seeks to enlarge into offshore division, starting...
2011-09-28 10:26:53
Aker wins subsea deal
Aker Solutions supplies a subsea umbilical for Det Norske’s Jette field in a deal worth about Nkr 60 million ($10.4 million). The deal will initially see it provide six kilometres of static electro-hydraulic stainless steel umbilical, with elec...
2011-09-28 07:53:10
Fincantieri design floating waste platform
On Sep. 26, at the Faculty of Economy of the University of Naples, Federico II, there was the presentation of "Plasmare", a project to construct sea-borne plant for the treatment of solid municipal waste. The project has been conceived and promot...
2011-09-28 07:28:40
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