Offshore
Singaporean signs $30m DSV
Singapore-listed shipbuilding company ASL Marine has secured a $27m order for DSV from overseas shipowner. ASL will build a dive support vessel with fire fighting, standby and rescue capabilities for the unidentified buyer, it told investors on M...
2010-02-09 08:29:03
Keppel bags S$140m orders
Keppel Singmarine has bagged three newbuilding contracts worth a total of S$140m ($98m). Royal Boskalis Westminster has ordered a 159m long rock dumping fall pipe vessel with the capacity to carry 23,000 tons of rock. The vessel equipped with...
2010-02-09 08:18:25
Hyundai inks $1.1bn FPSO
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries has clinched its first newbuilding order in the new year for the world’s largest circular FPSO. The world’s largest shipbuilder announced on Monday that it has recently signed a $1.1bn (KRW 1.29trn) con...
2010-02-08 18:40:31
CSSC opens new type LNG carriers
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) held a conference in Beijing yesterday. The group released three new types of LNG carriers. LNG carrier is commonly recognized as the pearl on the crown of global shipbuilding industry, with hi technolog...
2010-02-08 12:28:17
China orders 6th LNG carrier
China has broken the LNG newbuilding order impasse by signing up the first vessel to be confirmed for 21 months but an expected ownership split with Malaysia appears to have been abandoned. It is understood that China LNG Shipping (Holdings) Co (C...
2010-02-08 08:15:40
Big 4 in 2nd FSRU round
Korean big 4 shipbuilders have made it through to a new bidding process to build an FSRU. They submitted fresh bids last week for GDF Suez and Hoegh LNG's Italian floating import project Triton LNG. Offers are understood to have been due in on ...
2010-02-08 08:13:28
Break offshore bottleneck: China
According to industry statistics, the exploration rate of China’s ocean petroleum is just 12% while that of ocean natural gas is lower, namely 10%. With China’s energy consumption rising, the dependence on foreign trade is increasing as well. ...
2010-02-05 15:39:13
Transocean mulls Petrobras rig tender
Transocean Ltd is mulling participation in Petrobras' planned tenders for 28 newbuilding rigs and drillships, the driller's finance chief said Thursday. "The tender terms are challenging," CFO Ricardo Rosa said at a Credit Suisse conference in Va...
2010-02-05 07:22:21
Tsakos eyes drillship orders
Greece’s Tsakos Group is considering making its debut in the offshore industry with a potential project for its first drillships. Sources close to the negotiations said the group is in talks with at least two major South Korean shipbuilders wit...
2010-02-05 06:57:57
Sembcorp builds new Brazil yard
Sembcorp Marine is to build a new shipyard in Brazil targeting the country’s fast growing offshore market. The Singapore-based company’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard will undertake the project in Espirito Santo state, north of Rio de Janeiro. Th...
2010-02-05 06:53:22
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