Scomi Marine, a global service provider mainly in the oil and gas industry, plans to invest $45m to buy two new vessels, so they are able to boost the efficiency of its offshore support services division and hopes to add them to its fleet by year-end, Seatrade Asia online reports. After divesting th
Steel cutting has commenced on the LNG vessel Hull Number S-1911 at the STX Offshore & Shipbuilding yard in Jinhae, South Korea. This vessel, together with her sistership Hull Number S-1910 which was started this May, were ordered by SCF Group (Sovcomflot) last year for a long-term time charter with
In its meeting today the board of creditors decided on solutions involving industrial partners. The individual offers for the three companies of the Sietas Group are higher in total than the overall offer submitted and also offer greater security for the future, since they involve strategic investor
Hantong Group and a German design company recently has signed a contract in Hamburg for co-operating designing the offshore foundation transportation vessel (hereunder referred as OFTV), to secure the smooth delivery of Hantong manufactured offshore foundations in time. The design would be optimized
Keppel Offshore & Marine’s (Keppel O&M) yards in the U.S. and Azerbaijan have secured contracts worth a total of about US$70 million. In the US, Keppel AmFELS LLC, has secured a contract from Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. (Transocean) to repair and upgrade the semisubmersible (semi) ri
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won an order worth $80 million from Samsung Heavy Industries to supply energy efficient drives, motors and electrical power systems for five drilling vessels and two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to be built at Samsung’s shipyar
Concordia Maritime’s Suezmax tanker Stena Supreme was yesterday named at a ceremony at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The tanker is a third generation, fuel-efficient Suezmax and will be employed in the open market via the Stena Sonangol Suezmax Pool. She is expected to
The Kulluk and Noble Discoverer set sail for the Arctic yesterday from Vigor Industrial’s Seattle shipyard, following completion of extensive environmental and safety upgrades by its commercial ship repair subsidiary, Vigor Marine. “It is impossible to overstate the pride Vigor Marine teams have fel
The Fosnavag-based Havyard Group AS was today officially unveiled as supplier of a Havyard 820 design for the shipping company Atlantic Offshore. Atlantic Offshore is located at Sotra just outside Bergen and has a fleet of 22 vessels. The company has around 580 employees. The vessel is a standby ves
In June 2012 Konecranes received an important order for a Goliath gantry crane from Kvaerner in Norway. The Goliath gantry crane will be in operation at Kvaerner’s facilities at Stord on November 2013. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the order. The markets on the Norwegian Conti
Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) today announced the order of 6 high-specification 3700 DWT PSVs (with options for a futher 4 vessels) from Universal Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in Japan. The vessels will be built in USC’s Keihin Shipyard and deliver progressively from 3Q 2014. These orders follow on
On Wednesday, 27 June 2012, Hamburg Süd celebrated the christening of its container ship “Santa Ines” at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (DSME) in Geoje-City in Korea. Sponsor of the “Santa Ines” was Dr Marie Schnell, a daughter of Dr Arend Oetker. The “Santa Ines” is the last newb
Deltamarin has entered into a new contract with Yangfan Group (China) for the design of B.Delta37 Bulk Carriers to be built for d’Amico Societa di Navigazione S.p.A. who placed with the Chinese builder a series of six fixed orders and six options. Deltamarin will procure the Basic Design, part of th
On June 26th, SD Standard Drilling Plc has entered into a final SPA for the sale of one rig (B324) under construction and further issued the buyer an option to purchase a second rig (B337) under construction. If the option is exercised the gross combined price will be USD 426m. The option to purchas
