Offshore
Noble optimistic on newbuildings
Noble Corp posted a jump in fourth-quarter profits Thursday, beating analyst bets. The New York-listed rig and drillship owner's chief executive also spoke optimistically about this year as the company takes delivery of newbuildings. The comp...
2010-01-29 08:18:17
Brazil newcomer OSX big plan
Two Eike Batista-controlled companies have forged a partnership to provide the billionaire's OGX with the dozens of FPSOs and platforms that it says it needs. Sao Paulo-listed OGX has just released estimates saying that it needs 19 floating produ...
2010-01-28 08:05:01
Keppel inks jackup rig
Keppel FELS has secured a contract from Saudi Aramco subsidiary, Aramco Overseas Company, to build a customized KFELS Super B Class jackup rig. Upon delivery, which is slated in the second half of 2012, the rig will be deployed by Saudi Aramco in...
2010-01-28 07:51:15
Keppel confident about recovery
Keppel is bullish about a recovery in both the offshore sector and the global economy after beating analysts’ estimates in the fourth quarter, foreign media reports. Orders accelerated in the last three months of 2009 in which the Singapore-lis...
2010-01-27 07:57:06
Gulf Offshore orders 8 vessels
Gulf Offshore Logistics (GOL) is reportedly paying $250m for its order of eight offshore vessels at two US shipyards. But the reports by a Louisiana newspaper and law firm Countryman & McDaniel do not break down how much of that total is being sp...
2010-01-26 08:21:10
Neptune loses 47m from drillship sale
Neptune Group, a subsidiary of Singapore-listed Jesper Investments, will take a loss of $47m from the sale of its 1977-built Neptune Discoverer drillship to oil and gas company PetroSaudi International. Neptune will receive proceeds of $150m from...
2010-01-26 07:53:01
Daewoo to win offshore projects
It is expected that Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) will maintain the upward trend in order intake for a while. Gulping down a flood of orders at the end of 2009, the company has been outstanding in the newbuild...
2010-01-25 06:52:33
Petrobras to launch drillship tender
Korean shipbuilders are competing to win a massive offshore plant newbuilding tender in Brazil. Brazil’s state-run oil major Petrobras is said to be floating a newbuilding tender for 28 drillships soon. The prices of the newbuildings are esti...
2010-01-25 06:46:28
Greenfield to win Transpetro tender
Brazil’s Ceara state government confirmed that a greenfield yard proposed in the state has won a Transpetro gas ship tender. Antonio Balhmann, president of the State Development Agency, said Promar Ceara Shipyard won the bidding as shipyard off...
2010-01-22 07:54:11
Jurong wins FPSO conversion deal
Jurong Shipyard has reportedly won a tender to convert a tanker into an FPSO hull for Brazil's Petrobras. The Singapore yard won the bidding race with an offer of $94m, Agencia Estado newswire reports. Brazil’s energy company Petobras plans...
2010-01-22 07:49:20
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