Offshore
Offshore surpass $12bn new orders
Coupled with increasing oil prices, newbuilding demand for large-scale offshore facilities in the offshore sector is facing a recovering phase again in full scale. The total of new order values by the middle of February this year surpassed $12bn ...
2011-02-22 11:16:59
BV & RS sign LNG/FPU agreement
Leading classification societies Bureau Veritas (BV) and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) have signed a three-year cooperation agreement covering the development of joint guidelines for LNG carriers and Offshore Floating Production Units (F...
2011-02-22 07:25:43
Running for Statoil drilling rigs
Norway’s Statoil has formally issued a tender for at least two new specialised drilling rigs for use on mature Norwegian fields. Four Asian shipyards are reported to be in the running. Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine En...
2011-02-22 06:38:02
Still hungry for offshore
Raised are some positive outlooks on the shipbuilding and offshore industry for this year. Jeon Jae-cheon, researcher at Seoul-based Daishin Securities, revealed today that there is still a strong expectation for newbuilding orders for offshore pl...
2011-02-21 10:24:17
Samsung wins wind vessel
Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries has won an order for a new offshore wind turbine installation vessel. Sweden’s Vattenfall has teamed up with Swire to order the new wind farm installation ship. The company will install 80 Siemens turbines at...
2011-02-21 06:05:05
Lamprell wind ship options lapse
Middle East-based shipyard Lamprell said Thursday that Seajacks and Fred Olsen Windcarrier will not exercise newbuilding options for offshore wind turbine installation vessels. Lamprell said it had been notified by Seajacks that an option agreed ...
2011-02-18 07:29:16
Rising oil drives offshore orders
Investment in the offshore sector will continue to be fueled by growing oil demand in emerging countries, as an increasing number of oil field discoveries are made in deeper waters. A growing fleet of offshore development and production vessels wi...
2011-02-18 06:54:28
Keppel scores 2+3 jack-up rigs
Transocean has ordered up to five jack-up drilling rigs at Singapore’s Keppel Corp. The world’s largest drilling rig owner has placed firm orders for two high-spec KFELS Super B Class jack-ups in deals worth $380m in total. Transocean has...
2011-02-18 06:37:56
STX Europe wins a research ship
STX Finland, subsidiary of STX Europe, won a fisheries research vessel from the Namibia Government at a price of EUR 35m ($48m) on the 11th of February. The newly ordered ship features 62 meters long with a passenger capacity of up to 45 people an...
2011-02-17 10:02:15
Hyundai may surpass target
Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries is expected to surpass what it originally targets in new orders for this year with steadily increasing new orders for offshore plants. Heo Seong-deok, researcher at Seoul-based Hi Investment & Securities, says, "H...
2011-02-17 07:32:41
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