Offshore
Jurong completes Ghana FPSO
Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard has converted FPSO Kwame Nkrumah MV21, the first floating production storage and offloading vessel destined for Ghana, after the unit was named by Ernestina Naadu Mills, wife of Ghana’s President John Atta Mills. T...
2010-05-07 08:14:16
Brazil to launch FPSO topside tenders
Petrobras is aiming to launch tenders before the end of this year for topside production modules for the eight floating production, storage and offloading units that will be installed on pre-salt fields such as Tupi, Guara, Iara and Carioca. "The...
2010-05-06 07:26:48
Korean pavilion at 'OTC 2010'
The '2010 Offshore Technology Conference' is being held from May 3rd until today at Houston, Texas, the US, where 2,532 enterprises are participating from about 40 countries and regions. Main exhibition items are offshore-related drilling system, ...
2010-05-06 06:55:36
LNG Resumes
LNG carrier newbuilding market is waking up from a two-year long sleep as Samsung Heavy Industries wins LNG carrier order from US oil major Chevron. Sources say the Korean shipbuilder has recently inked a contract with the oil company to build two...
2010-05-06 06:44:45
DSME-HHI vie for $1.5bn FPSO
Angola's state oil company Sonangol has rejected Total's recommended contractors for the giant Clov project, including a coveted award to build a $1.5 billion floater that now looks set to go to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) of Kore...
2010-05-04 11:14:39
CIMC in talks for $3bn offshore orders
A representative of China’s International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd (CIMC) said the group was negotiating several offshore contracts totaling $3bn. About one or two of them are believed to have been signed recently. The offshore project play...
2010-05-04 11:09:33
Petrobras FPSO tender postponed
Brazil’s Petrobras has postponed by one week a tender for a chartered floating production, storage and offloading vessel able to produce up to 80,000 barrels per day on the shallow-water Tiro-Sidon oilfield development, in the Santos basin. The...
2010-05-04 10:54:45
Europe yards better positioned?
For those who regard the smashing of a champagne bottle as a tragic waste, the problems facing the world’s shipbuilders are excellent news. It takes such a long time to construct huge ocean-going container ships, bulk carriers and oil tankers t...
2010-05-04 06:57:34
"K" Line flexes LNG muscle
Japanese shipping line Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (K-Line), on behalf of Flex LNG Ltd., plans to launch the world's first floating LNG (FLNG) production platform in 2014 for Thailand’s state-owned PTT Exploration & Production PCL (PTTEP). K-Line...
2010-05-03 08:25:23
Petrobras inks 8 FPSO hulls
Petrobras has signed a letter of intent with Brazilian Engevix Engenharia for the construction of eight floating storage, production and offloading hulls. The LOI authorizes the start-up of the procurement services for the eight FPSO hulls, Petro...
2010-05-03 07:38:31
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