Offshore
Sinopacific in PSV order spree
China's Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group has won an order for a series of platform supply vessels worth up to $456m from John Fredriksen's Seatankers. The owner has booked four firm PSVs at the Chinese yard and industry sources say the deal includes...
2011-06-24 14:57:07
Samsung inks 8th drillship
Samsung Heavy Industries has inked its eighth drillship order this year. The South Korean shipbuilder announced in a regulatory filing today that it has won an order for ultra deepwater drillship for $608m from Greek shipowner Ocean Rig. The dr...
2011-06-24 11:15:23
Samsung extends drillship option
Houston-based Pacific Drilling has agreed with South Korean shipbuiler Samsung Heavy Industries to extend an option for another ultra-deepwater drillship. Pacific now has until 31 October to exercise the option to build a seventh drillship at Sam...
2011-06-24 07:35:40
Samsung wins shuttle tankers
Samsung Heavy Industries inked a newbuilding contract for shuttle tanker quartet. Teekay Offshore says the four DP2 suezmax shuttle tankers will be built by Samsung for delivery in mid and late 2013. A Samsung spokesman confirms the deal and sa...
2011-06-24 07:16:51
Singaporean await $4.5bn rig orders
Credit Suisse says that Singapore’s rig builders are set to keep winning rig orders in 2011, with most existing rig options likely to be exercised and some capacity still available for new orders. “This is driven by utilisation rates of high-s...
2011-06-23 07:55:57
STX OSV inks AHTS duo
STX OSV has penned an order for two Anchor Handling / Offshore Service vessels (AHTS) from Norway’s Farstad Shipping for about NOK 1.2bn ($219m). The 24,000-bhp UT 731 CD-type vessels are designed by Rolls Royce Marine and have a bollard pull o...
2011-06-23 07:04:57
Hyundai confident in options
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is forecasting a tailing off of ship orders in the second half, but remains confident of more drillship orders. Talks are ongoing with customers over options to build three more drillships and two mor...
2011-06-23 07:00:10
Offshore & Boxship lead orders
Although newbuilding orders have been on the downslide in the past few weeks, activity is still pretty healthy in offshore and containership sectors. According to the latest weekly report from Golden Destiny, “orders continued to dwindle as the ...
2011-06-22 08:22:08
Pemex needs new drilling platforms
Mexico's state oil monopoly Pemex said it will acquire eight new offshore oil drilling platforms and other equipment worth $1.2 billion to expand production in the Gulf of Mexico. Pemex said in a statement seven of the platforms, which will be us...
2011-06-22 08:14:29
Bergen secures rig deal
Bergen Group has won a contract for work on a drilling rig at its Hanoytangen shipyard this summer. The Oslo-listed shipbuilder said its Hanoytangen subsidiary has been subcontracted by Semco Maritime to upgrade a Transocean rig. Work on the ...
2011-06-22 08:11:20
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