Offshore
Triton FSRU project goes slow
Shipbuilders have set aside offers they made for GDF Suez and Hoegh LNG’s purpose-built floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for the Triton LNG project off Italy but the developers insist the business is still ongoing. Shipyard offic...
2010-08-20 11:10:45
Total plots Angola project
French oil major Total has gained government approval to develop four oilfields in deepwaters offshore Angola to boost exports from the country in four years time. The Paris-based company, and its partners, will invest more than $3bn to develop th...
2010-08-20 08:36:04
AET books LSV pair
Houston-based AET Lightering Services has penned a pair of lightering support vessels (LSVs) at Louisiana's Leevac Industries. The lightering arm of Malaysian tanker owner AET says the twins will operate in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) upon delivery,...
2010-08-20 08:24:44
Keppel wins FPSO job
Keppel Shipyard has landed a near $40m contract to modify a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista. The shipyard will provide detailed engineering services and modify the topside process...
2010-08-19 08:19:38
TSC offshore expands
In the past three years, TSC Offshore Group has owned 16 professional companies through merge and acquisition, including some giants such as 168-year-old British Ansell Jones, American Patriot and Deep Water System. TSC set up 15 sales agents and ...
2010-08-19 01:01:13
Riding the Economic Wave
The global economic recession and the decline in sea-borne trade led to over-capacity of ships globally ultimately affecting the performance of the shipbuilding industry during last year. The global shipbuilding orderbook declined from 367.2 mn G...
2010-08-18 10:58:25
Crist wins Beluga windfarm-vessel
Polish shipbuilder Crist has secured an order for the first of Beluga Hochtief Offshore’s wind-farm-installation newbuildings. A contract has been placed by the German joint venture for a jack-up vessel for entry into service from May 2012. It ...
2010-08-16 07:33:21
Petra cancels AHTS orders
Petra Perdana has cancelled an order for two anchor-handling tug supply vessels (AHTSs) that are close to completion at a compatriot shipyard. The Malaysian-listed offshore outfit says it squashed the deal because the sector has been plagued by l...
2010-08-16 07:04:13
Samsung inks WTI ship
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has landed an order for the first of Swire Pacific Offshore's wind-farm-installation vessels. The marine arm of Hong Kong-listed conglomerate Swire Pacific says it expects the vessel to hit the wa...
2010-08-16 07:01:16
NACKS wins WTI vessel
China’s Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Company Limited (NACKS) signed with A2sea A/S which is a subsidiary company of Denmark’s Dong Energy Power A/S, to build a self-elevating wind turbine installation vessel. NACKS takes charge of design...
2010-08-16 01:13:07
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