Offshore
Daewoo delays LNG carrier deliveries
A Taiwanese player is said to be having trouble making the final payments on a pair of completed LNG-carrier newbuildings. Nobu Su’s Today Makes Tomorrow (TMT) is struggling to make the final payments on two undelivered LNG-carrier newbuildings...
2010-10-11 07:03:15
Samsung meets order target: $8bn
Samsung Heavy Industries announced Thursday that it has won an order for construction of a floating production unit (FPU) in the North America and another contract to build an offshore wind turbine installation vessel with Southeast Asian shipowner. ...
2010-10-07 12:00:18
Drydocks World inks PSVs
Tidewater has penned an order for four platform support vessels (PSVs) at Drydocks World's Indonesian shipyard. The New York-listed offshore owner said in a statement issued Wednesday that the 3,200-dwt ships will be built at a facility in Batam....
2010-10-07 07:44:32
DryShips drillship deal extended
DryShips has landed an extended contract for one of its drillship newbuildings worth nearly $30m in extra revenue. Nasdaq-listed DryShips says 60 days have been added to the landmark West African charter revealed last week. A US contractor ha...
2010-10-06 08:10:33
Great Offshore renewing fleet
Indian shipowner Great Offshore is looking to raise up to $200m to replace ageing ships. The offshore vessel player could sell more shares or issue convertible bonds, according to PC Kapoor, its executive director and also managing director of it...
2010-10-06 07:57:13
Sembcorp signs for 5 rig newbuilds
US rig player Atwood Oceanics has inked an order for two new jack-up drilling rigs at Sembcorp Marine's PPL Shipyards, Atwood announced on October 5th. The pair of newbuilding contracts are worth about $190m each. If the drilling contractor e...
2010-10-06 07:49:28
Russia to build three icebreakers
Hong Kong media reported the area of Arctic Ocean was reduced to 1,800,000 square mile, which was the third smallest point since 1979. Russia intended to build three nuclear power icebreak ships, for Russian enterprises to exploit abundant resourc...
2010-10-05 01:44:37
STX wins AHTS in Brazil
Norwegian shipowner Dof has again turned to STX for an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) newbuilding. Dof’s Brazilian wing Norskan Offshore has booked a single AH 11 design vessel at STX in Brazil only a month after its last order at the same ya...
2010-10-04 07:21:47
China to set up polar research fleet
The polar research ship is powful support for polar exploitation. In next five years, China intends to set up a modern polar research fleet, to enhance polar research capacity. An insider revealed that China was preparing to build another new pola...
2010-10-04 02:40:22
DSME builds new yard for offshore plants
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is to construct a state-of-the-art shipbuilding complex dedicated to building high value-added offshore plants like drillship, LNG-FPSO, FSRU, etc. To that end, DSME singed a contract on September 29th to b...
2010-10-01 12:19:58
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