Offshore
MMHE to win LNG-FPSO
Malaysia Marine & Heavy Engineering (MMHE) Holdings Bhd's orderbook is expected to be positive, with contracts from Petronas' floating liquefied natural gas vessel. MMHE is likely to team up with Technip SA for the hull design of the contract, say...
2011-02-09 07:27:14
JJ Sietas sees light in special vessels
JJ Sietas in Hamburg, Germany’s oldest existing shipyard, ended building boxships with the delivery of the 1,425-teu Elysee in October 2009. In February 2009, the yard was close to collapse as it was suffering from a heavily shrunken orderbook a...
2011-02-08 09:55:52
STX wins wind vessel
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has won an order for a wind turbine installation vessel from London-based Gaoh Offshore. The UK firm has signed the letter of intent (LOI) with the Korean yard group. The deep-water installation vessel will be built ...
2011-02-08 07:33:05
Hyundai wins super heavylifter
Hyundai Heavy Industries has been selected to build Dockwise’s new giant heavylift vessel. It is due to be delivered in the last quarter of 2012. The total cost of the vessel including all project and design costs, is expected to be about $...
2011-02-07 13:05:14
Sovcomflot designs Medmax LNG carrier
Russia's Sovcomflot has lined up a design for a Medmax-size LNG carrier that could be built at a domestic shipyard OPK Baltisky Zavod. The 79,300-cbm vessel has accommodation in the fore part of the ship in a bid to ensure good visibility, partic...
2011-02-07 08:46:13
IHI wins FSO order
IHI Corp. has won an order worth more than JPY 10bn ($120m) for a floating oil storage facility in the Gulf of Thailand from a joint venture between Chevron Corp. and Mitsui Oil Exploration Co. The FSO unit has an oil storage capacity of 1 millio...
2011-02-07 07:27:12
Hyundai firms up four drillships
Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries has won the fourth firm drillship order this year as Diamond Offshore Drilling exercised an option for a second deepwater drillship. The Houston-based driller contractor said the second drillship is scheduled for ...
2011-02-07 07:03:44
Samsung to expand offshore biz
Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries is believed to raise its status in the offshore plant sector this year. Its sales of the commercial ship sector would decrease slightly, but it would show a differentiated appearance from other shipyards as it exp...
2011-02-01 11:53:28
Drillships burst
Newbuilding orders for the typical high value-added ship type, drillships, have bursted since the beginning of the year. With Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering winning a deep-sea drillship from America's drilling company on the 31st...
2011-02-01 11:21:21
Nexus-Hyundai in talks for FPSO
Australia's Nexus Energy and Hyundai are in talks with a contractor regarding a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel contract for the Crux liquids project. Nexus was in discussion with British engineering company Petrofac and...
2011-02-01 07:27:20
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