COSCO subsidiary companies have picked up contracts to build four emergency response rescue field support vessels (ERRVs) and two platform supply vessels (PSVs). COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co. won the four- ERRV contract, from an Asian company…
Fairmount Marine announced on 14 April 2014 that its tug Fairmount Sherpa has safely towed the semisubmersible drilling rig Sevan Louisiana from Singapore to Curaçao. During the 11,500mi. voyage via the Cape of Good Hope, stops were made in Port Louis (Mauritius)…
Keppel Offshore & Marine’s subsidiaries have secured contracts worth about US$110 million in total. Keppel Shipyard will, for SOFEC Inc., fabricate an external turret mooring system for an FPSO vessel that will operate in the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme fields in Ghana…
Belgium's Exmar and Canada's Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE), through its wholly-owned affiliate Pacific Midstream Holding, announced the ordering of a barge-based floating LNG regasification unit under a 50/50 joint venture. The unit will…
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd's (Keppel O&M) subsidiaries Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard) and Keppel Nantong Shipyard Co. Ltd (Keppel Nantong) have secured five contracts worth about S$150 million in total. Keppel Shipyard's contracts are FPSO and FSO projects from Armada C7 Pte Ltd…
GE's Power Conversion business is to supply of dynamic positioning (DP) for a floating accommodation unit being built by Cosco (Nantong) Shipyard in Nantong City, China. The vessel is being built for Logitel Offshore, the Singapore-based floating logistics and accommodation rig owner…
Sevan Drilling ASA today (October 23) took delivery of the Sevan Louisiana from Cosco Quidong Shipyard in China. The drilling rig has a cylindrical hull design and will be capable of drilling in water depths to 10,000ft. Sevan Louisiana…
Norway-based Odfjell SE signed shipbuilding contracts with Nantong Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co., Ltd., of China, for construction of four 17,000 cbm capacity LPG/Ethylene gas tankers. Odfjell also secured various options for delivery of up to four additional tankers…
ABB has won an order to provide integrated solutions that include the electrical propulsion system, Azipod® CZ and automation system onboard two offshore accommodation vessels. The 1+1 ccommodation vessels will be built by COSCO (Nantong) ShipyardCo…
COSCO Corp. Ltd. has been active completing vessels and signing new construction contracts. The company announced that COSCO (Qidong) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered the jackup barge, IB914, and the transportation barge, IB924, to an Australian company…
Aker Solutions won a contract to supply a complete Pusnes wire mooring system for a cylindrical-shaped accommodation unit being built at Cosco Nantong Shipyard in China. The equipment includes three triple wire winches, three control cabins…
ABB has been awarded a US$20 million contract to provide power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). The unit is being built to Sevan Marine's cylindrical design at Chinese shipyard COSCO Nantong for Dana Petroleum…
Wärtsilä will supply a comprehensive, fully integrated power, propulsion and positioning system for a DP3 Dynamically Positioned offshore accommodation rig being built in China, the company announced on 17 April 2013. Wartsila power…
The global rig market is strong, with high utilization, high day rates, and nearly 200 offshore drilling rigs under construction. Drilling contractors are changing their fleet makeup, modernizing, streamlining, and concentrating on market sectors…
Wison Offshore & Marine, Exmar and longtime LNG consulting and engineering firm Black & Veatch have teamed up on what the companies promise will be the first floating LNG liquefaction, regasification and storage unit (FLRSU), to be installed 3km offshore Colombia…