Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for two vessels capable of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data acquisition for sea bottom resource exploration from Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS), a leading company in marine seismic and reservoir data acquisition, processing and analysis/interpretation services in Norway. The contract was signed on April 25 in Tokyo. The [...]
Adria Winch, together with its partner Seaonics AS, has recently won a contract to supply deck equipment for two STX OSV’s Offshore Subsea Construction Vessels of 11 L design. The vessels are currently being built in STX OSV Brattvaag Shipyard for a Norwegian owner, Siem Offshore. Under the contract, the scope of supply includes custom deigned [...]
The United States Department of Defense has announced that Austal USA has been awarded a US$19.987 million modification to a previously awarded Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contract. The modification exercises options for class service efforts and special studies, analyses and reviews for the LCS program. Austal USA will assess engineering and production challenges, and evaluate [...]
OAO Sovcomflot (SCF Group) today announces that on 12 December 2012 it signed a USD 160 million, 12 year export credit facility with Finnvera plc, Finnish Export Credit Ltd. and ING BANK N.V. The funds will be used towards financing two new ice-breaking supply vessels, Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov, currently under construction at Arctech [...]
Cargotec has secured a new contract from an international owner for a comprehensive MacGregor module handling equipment package. The equipment is destined for an offshore vessel and is scheduled for delivery next year. It will be designed, manufactured and tested in Kristiansand, Norway, in accordance with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) rules and regulations. The system [...]
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a USD 38.3 million order to design and equip four platform supply vessels (PSVs) for Brazilian ship owner Bravante Group, former Navegação São Miguel Ltda. The UT 775 SE PSVs are designed to carry deck cargo, pipes and diesel oil to and from offshore oil and gas [...]
Up to eight 2,300 teu container vessels will be constructed by the Chinese shipbuilder Zhejiang Yangfan Group, based on the order placed by German ship-owner Bernhard Schulte and financial institution JP Morgan, the Seatrade Asia reports. Namely, the contract stipulates four firm newbuildings, offering an option for construction of additional four carriers. Each newbuilding is [...]
Daeyang Shipyard based in Dalian, China, a subsidiary of Daeyang Group, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, will use its acquired know-how from ship repair and offshore conversion sector to expand its services into offshore newbuilding business, Seatrade Asia online announced citing one of the company’s officials. The first offshore support vessels (OSVs), jack-up rigs and [...]
DOF Subsea Australia, a subsidiary of DOF ASA has been awarded a three year Master Services Agreement contract by Eni JPDA 06-105 Pty Ltd for the Inspection, Monitoring, Maintenance and Repair (IMMR) Services associated with the operation of the Kitan field in the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA) of the Timor Sea. The latest addition [...]
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd announced that its marine sector has won shipbuilding and repair contracts worth about S$179m. These wins include a contract to build two additional Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs) as well as a series of repair and upgrading projects. On shipbuilding, Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC (Hornbeck) has exercised the options for two additional [...]
