Oil & Gas

FEBRUARY 7, 2013—Under contracts worth $160 million, ABB, Zurich, Switzerland, will design, supply, supervision of installation, testing and commissioning of the main electrical systems for seven next generation drill ships that are being built in the Brazil. The DP3 drillships will be used to ...

FEBRUARY 7, 2012 — Singapore's Jaya Holdings Limited has delivered a new state-of-the-art multi-purpose offshore support vessel, Jaya Pride, from its Batam, Indonesia, shipyard. Chief Executive Officer Venkatraman Sheshashayee says the vessel is "a highly versatile DP2 workboat for offshore platform maintenance" and is alread ...

FEBRUARY 7, 2012 — In what National Ocean Industries Association President Randall Luthi yesterday called "a bit of a surprise," President Barack Obama yesterday announced that he has chosen Sally Jewell to be the next Secretary of the Interior. For the past eight years, Ms. Jewell has been the CEO of Recreational Equipment Inc., com ...

FEBRUARY 6, 2013 — Rolls-Royce says that an offshore vessel under construction for Simon Møkster Shipping will be the first in the world to feature its innovative Unified Bridge solution — which it calls "a step change in vessel operation." The bridge is being installed on a UT 776 WP platform supply ve ...

JANUARY 31, 2013 — Leevac Shipyards Jennings LLC, Jennings, LA, has signed contracts with Aries Marine, Inc. of Lafayette, LA, to build two diesel electric platform supply vessels. With dimensions of 270 ft x 56 ft x 21.5 ft, they will be built to Leevac Design Services "LDS" 270 DE PSV design. Construction will begin immediat ...

JANUARY 30, 2012 — Damen Shipyards Group has introduces the latest addition to the Damen Offshore Series. Its newly designed Damen AHTS 200 is a versatile deepwater anchor handling tug supply vessel able to operate in water depths in excess of 3,000 m. Looking to increase its market share in the offshore sector, Damen ...

JANUARY 30, 2013 — A next generation Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) vessel, designed for operations in the harshest environments, was named at a ceremony today in Stavanger, Norway. Co-owned by Subsea 7 and Eidesvik, the Seven Viking, has been constructed in partnership with Ulstein. ...

JANUARY 29, 2013 — BP today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has accepted the company's plea resolving all federal criminal charges against the company stemming from the Deepwater Horizon accident, oil spill, and response. The company offered its plea to t ...