Offshore
Teekay to order windfarm install vessel
Canadian tanker giant Teekay Corp has teamed with A2SEA of Denmark in a venture aimed at tackling the development and design of offshore wind turbine installation vessels. New York-listed Teekay says it has penned a memorandum of understanding wi...
2011-06-30 06:59:13
Bourbon orders six seismic newbuilds
BOURBON announces the signing of a five-year marine charter agreement with CGGVeritas for six new seismic support and assistance vessels that will be delivered at the end of 2012. Following a tender procedure, BOURBON has decided to build these v...
2011-06-29 06:55:19
TMT mulls LNG-FPSO order
Taiwan's TMT is mulling ordering new LNG-FPSO. Although it offloaded three LNG carriers to Sweden's Stena Bulk just last month, it seems to re-enter the LNG-related sectors. Demand for LNG is forecast to rise further worldwide down the road but pr...
2011-06-28 11:35:58
Drillship market bisected
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries emerged as a new player in the drillship newbuilding market and the market is in effect bisected by Hyundai and existing drillship heavyweight Samsung Heavy Industries. Hyundai has won nine drillship newbuild...
2011-06-28 07:32:40
FMC wins Shell's subsea order
US production giant FMC Technologies has won a massive deal to supply subsea services for Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas project in Australia. The Houston-based player had been chasing the milestone contract for much of this yea...
2011-06-28 07:06:35
Tsuneishi converts tankers into MCVs
Malaysian tanker owner AET is to convert two aframax newbuildings into modular capture vessels (MCVs) after securing a 20-year contract with the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) of the US. AET says the 107,000-dwt vessels will be modified a...
2011-06-28 06:44:43
Samsung 'Far Ahead'
South Korean shipbuilders had a bumper harvest in the first half of the year and Samsung turned out to be a sole leader. Samsung Heavy Industries signed massive newbuilding orders including colossal LNG-FPSO. The Korea Exchange announced on Jun...
2011-06-27 12:31:31
Havyard scores PSV
Havila Shipping has ordered a new platform supply vessel and chartered it long-term to Statoil. The Oslo-listed owner placed the NOK 350m ($64m) order at Havyard Ship Technology in Leirvik. The as yet unnamed 4,700-dwt PSV will join the Norwe...
2011-06-27 07:18:52
Offshore localization 'Too Low'
South Korean shipbuilders have raked in orders for offshore plants like drillships and FPSOs worth $18bn so far this year but they rely too much on foreign core equipments for the plants like drilling systems. Industry players point out that home ...
2011-06-27 06:56:20
Daewoo extends drillship option
Aker Drilling, through its subsidiary Aker Drilling Offshore Services Public Ltd., has agreed with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. an extension to the time limit for declaring its first optional drillship from end of June 2011 to ...
2011-06-27 06:13:37
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