Offshore
Daewoo pens $1.3bn offshore platform
Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering announced that it has signed a Letter of Authorization with global oil major Chevron on December 15th to build a fixed-type offshore platform for production of natural gas. Through the LOA, both com...
2010-12-16 09:54:10
Tokyo permits 47 newbuildings
Japanese government has approved new ship construction for 47 ships of 1.73m gt in November. The figure is up 26% from a year earlier. Accumulated newbuilding permits for April-November period stood at 12.78m gt, up 2% year-on-year. By ship typ...
2010-12-16 09:11:45
Remontowa wins MPSV pair
Polish shipbuilder Remontowa has signed a deal to build two multi-purpose platform supply vessels for Lewek Shipping, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Ezra Holdings. Construction on the MMC 887 CP design vessels began in September and Remontowa laid...
2010-12-16 08:44:00
Atlantico to win Petrobras drillship
Petrobras is soon to award just one of the contractual packages on offer for building seven drillships per Brazilian shipyard, a director with the company confirmed on Tuesday. “We will be ruling on some final disqualification appeals today, th...
2010-12-15 07:32:17
Samsung inks drillships with Pride
New York-listed Pride International says it has reached agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the construction of a fifth ultra-deepwater drillship. Like the four other ultra-deepwater drillships that Pride has ordered since 2007, the...
2010-12-15 07:25:18
Indonesia approves Masela FLNG
Indonesia has approved a development plan for the Masela liquefied natural gas floating terminal project run by Japan's biggest oil and gas explorer Inpex Corporation, according to reports. The floating LNG project will have capacity of 2.5 milli...
2010-12-14 08:25:45
STX OSV books another PSV
Norway's STX OSV Holdings, which was recently listed in Singapore, announced that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of a platform supply vessel of PSV 09 design for an undisclosed international customer. The vessel is ...
2010-12-14 07:17:05
Offshore order surges
Influenced by financial crisis, global offshore orders slumped greatly. However it showed strong uptrend this year. The drilling equipment and FPSO orders were raised by over 50% respectively. Chinese analyst Zhao Zehua said as global oil and gas...
2010-12-13 10:14:04
STX won $200m methanol plant
Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding (STX O&S) made the successful first step on the petrochemical plant project of Caspian sea region by winning a new order for a methanol plant. STX O&S revealed last Thursday that it had signed a contract with Az...
2010-12-13 09:52:15
Hyundai & Samsung win Barzan gas project
Korea's Samsung Engineering & Japan's Chiyoda consortium is expected to be awarded a $1.7bn Barzan onshore gas field project by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil within this month. State run energy firm Qatar Petroleum and its JV partner US oil ...
2010-12-10 13:14:00
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