Shipbuilding News

 

Saipem and MDC Join Forces to Expand Offshore Drilling Activities

Oct 23, 2026

Saipem and Egypt's Modern Drilling Company (MDC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore offshore drilling opportunities in Egypt, with the potential to extend their cooperation to other countries.The non-exclusive agreement covers the identification and development of new offshore drilling business opportunities, with the companies considering different forms of cooperation depending on individual projects…

Maritime Market: Cable Layer Fleet Gains Scale, Scope

Nov 09, 2026

Accelerating demand for subsea power and telecoms cable network construction is fuelling major expansion of the world fleet of purpose-designed cable laying, maintenance and repair vessels.Driven by the growth of the offshore renewables sector and its advance into deeper waters…

BOURBON Takes Delivery of First of Two 34-Meter Crew Boats

Nov 04, 2026

BOURBON has taken delivery of the first of two new 34-meter crew boats from Grandweld Shipyards in Dubai, expanding its fleet of offshore personnel transport vessels.The first vessel was officially delivered on November 3 following successful sea trials…

Huisman Gets Crane Supply Order for Siem's Subsea Newbuilds

Oct 30, 2026

Huisman has secured a contract from Siem Industries to supply four knuckle boom cranes for two offshore subsea construction vessels under construction at Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding in China, with deliveries of the vessels scheduled for 2029 and 2030…

Vard Launches New Energy Construction Vessel for Norwegian Owner

Oct 29, 2026

Shipbuilder Vard has launched a new energy construction vessel (ECV) being built for Wind Energy Construction, a Norwegian company partly owned by the founders and owners of Norwind Offshore, with delivery scheduled for the second quarter of 2027…

Subsea Vessel Market: Shifting Dynamics + Fleet Expansion

Oct 29, 2026

We are entering in interesting period in the subsea vessel market, as contract backlog among the EPCs continue to rise to new all-time highs, existing long-term contracts are coming up for renewals, and a wave of newbuilds are closing in on delivery…

OEG Orders Three More Offshore Wind CTVs from Diverse Marine

Oct 21, 2026

OEG Marine Services has ordered three additional crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from Diverse Marine, expanding its offshore wind support fleet under a newbuilding program scheduled for delivery throughout 2027.The vessels will be built to the BREVITY SL Class design developed by Chartwell Marine…

Union Vega Offshore Orders Two Breeze-Designed PSVs, Options Four More

Oct 20, 2026

Union Vega Offshore has ordered two battery-hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs) from Fujian Mawei Shipyard, with options for four additional vessels, under a design contract awarded to Breeze Ship Design.The vessels will be based on Breeze Ship Design's next-generation Z 4409 PSV design…

Incat Crowther to Build Fourth Fast Support Intervention Vessel

Oct 16, 2026

Zamil Offshore commissioned Incat Crowther and Singaporean shipbuilder Lita Ocean to design, build and deliver a fourth 60-m ABS-classed monohull Fast Support Intervention Vessel (FSIV). The project follows the delivery of the third vessel in…

Bibby Marine’s Battery-First eCSOV Hits Water in Spain

Oct 12, 2026

Bibby Marine has launched its new battery-first electric commissioning service operation vessel (eCSOV) at Armon Shipyard in Vigo, Spain, ahead of its planned delivery in 2027.The vessel, which will carry the name Staffordshire, entered the…

MISC Names First of Three LNG Carriers for QatarEnergy

Oct 06, 2026

MISC has named Th’ailib, the first of three new 174,000-cubic-metre liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers secured under long-term charter agreements with QatarEnergy, at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South Korea.Th’ailib will enter a firm 15-year charter with QatarEnergy starting in 2026…

IWS Places $300M Order for Four New Skywalker-Class CSOVs

Oct 01, 2026

Integrated Wind Solutions (IWS) subsidiary IWS Fleet has ordered four Skywalker-class commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) for a combined firm yard price of around $301 million (€260 million), expanding its owned fleet from six to 10 CSOVs…

Van Oord Names Next-Generation Fallpipe Vessel Pair

Sep 24, 2026

Van Oord has named its two next-generation flexible fallpipe vessels Vindnes and Vestnes, with the 35,000-tonne-capacity ships scheduled for delivery in 2028 and 2029.The purpose-built vessels, currently under construction at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore in China…

Dong Fang Offshore Orders Another CSOV from Vard

Sep 24, 2026

Fincantieri's Norwegian subsidiary Vard has signed a contract, worth between $76 million and $86 million, to build a commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) for Dong Fang Offshore, marking the fifth vessel ordered by the Taiwan-based marine contractor from the shipbuilder…

CSL OWL Launches First Subsea Rock Installation Vessel (Video)

Sep 23, 2026

CSL OWL has launched the first of two purpose-built subsea rock installation vessels designed for offshore wind construction and maintenance projects.The vessel, named Rock Star, is the first in CSL OWL's two-ship newbuilding program and is designed to carry up to 17…

Current News

Onshore Cable Installation at Maasvlakte for Offshore Wind Enter Final Phase

Onshore Cable Installation at

Sonardyne Begins Seabed Monitoring for Offshore CCS Project

Sonardyne Begins Seabed Monito

HPR Secures Taiwan Offshore Wind Deal After High-Current ROV Trials

HPR Secures Taiwan Offshore Wi

BP Takes Operatorship of Three Namibia’s Offshore Licenses in Eco Farm-Down

BP Takes Operatorship of Three

Subscribe for OE Digital E‑News

 
Offshore Engineer Magazine