Swiss offshore services firm Allseas is planning to build a vessel big enough to be able to remove the world's largest oil and gas platforms when they reach the end of their production lives, its chief executive said. The vessel, to be called Amazing Grace…
Brazil's Petrobras has awarded Norway-based DOF Subsea two new contracts for ROVs to be installed on the Skandi Angra and Skandi Paraty. The new contracts start in April 2018 and end in September and November 2020, respectively. Further…
Dutch transport and installation firm Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has won an additional contract on Maersk Oil's US$3.6 billion Tyra Redevelopment Project offshore Denmark. Following the award of the transportation and installation…
Finnish power firm Wärtsilä is to retrofit an energy storage solution on to Norwegian North Sea Shipping's North Sea Giant offshore construction vessel in what's being described as a world's first. The energy storage system will reduce the DP3 vessel’s energy consumption…
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Keppel Singmarine has delivered a new multi-purpose ice-class vessel to New Orient Marine, part of Luxembourg-based Maritime Construction Services. The MPV Everest, built to a Keppel O&M design, is the 11th ice-class vessel built by Keppel O&M…
Helix Energy Solutions' Siem Helix 2 newbuild light well intervention vessel has completed the vessel acceptance tests and is now on contract to Petrobras offshore Brazil under a multi-year contract. The Siem Helix 2 joins the Siem Helix 1…
Dutch firm OOS International Group has signed a memorandum of understanding which paves the way for it to bring the largest semisubmersible crane vessel to the market. The new vessel, called the OOS Zeelandia (pictured), would be ordered from China Merchants Industry Holdings…
Keppel Offshore & Marine, through its subsidiaries, has inked new contracts froom Petrobras and SOFEC, worth in total about US$96.22 (S$130 million). Keppel Shipyard's contract from SOFEC is for the fabrication of a turret mooring…
SBM Offshore has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a turret mooring system for Statoil's US$5.9 billion Johan Castberg floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Norwegian Barents Sea project will tap an…
Dutch group Royal Boskalis Westminster has added two large diving support vessels (DSVs) to its fleet. Through an agreement with the bondholders of the two former Harkand vessels, Boskalis has acquired the DSV Atlantis for about US$60…
Multi-purpose vessel designer CDC Scotland is set to commercialize its first vessel design through Dutch firm OOS Energy, part of OOS International. OOS Energy, which is also building two semisubmersible crane vessels, is planning to build two units…
Dutch heavy life and accomodation vessel firm OOS International has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese offshore services company Jiangsu Fanzhou Shipping to form a strategic alliance. The two hope to work together to expand the coverage of their vessels globally…
Young diving firm Ultra Deep Solutions has seen the keel laid at Chinese yard CMHI on its latest dive support construction vessel (DSCV), the Ultra Deep Matisse. This vessel will be the largest ship in the firm's fleet, at 145m-long with a 27m beam…
Norway's Siem Offshore says it's in negotiations with a potential buyer for its Siem Offshore Contractors cable lay business as it prepares for 'an extended downturn in the offshore supply market.' The firm is trying two separate moves to improve its finances…
Dutch firm OOS Energy, part of OOS International Group, has revealed a new vessel concept, the Multi Activity Unit (MAU), a self-propelled, dynamically positioned jackup capable of performing a wide range of services. OOS Energy says…