Oil & Gas

AUGUST 13, 2012 — Petrobras has signed contracts with Sete Brasil, Odebrecht and Etesco covering the charter and operation nine drillships. The drillships are the final units in a program under which Sete Brasil is building 21 offshore drilling units that will be operated by various operators on charters for Petrobras ...

AUGUST 13, 2012 — Hornbeck Offshore Services (HOS) has selected GL Noble Denton to undertake dynamic positioning (DP) assurance services across its fleet. GL Noble Denton's team of DP engineers will support HOS to further develop internal dynamic positioning operating standards across 55 DP-capable offshore service ve ...

AUGUST 13, 2012 —China's COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co. has won a $170 million order to build a jack-up drilling rig based on the LeTourneau Super 116E Class design. Delivery from the shipbuilder is scheduled for the first quarter of 2015. The order comes from Talland Navigation Limited Corporation, a subsidi ...

AUGUST 10, 2012—The first in a new series of DP-2 Platform Supply/Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels under construction for Bordelon Marine in Houma, LA, is expected to be delivered in January 2013. Called the M/V Connor Bordelon, the 252 ft x 52 ft x 18 ft PSV/MPSV is “a prototype design that incorporates a number of cut ...

AUGUST 9, 2012 —Keppel FELS Brasil S/A has secured two contracts worth a total of about $950 million from the Petrobras-led consortiums, Guara BV and Tupi BV, for the fabrication and integration of topside modules on the Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSO) P-66 and P-69. As part of the agreement, Petrobras has ...

AUGUST 9, 2012 — More details have been released about the two platform supply vessels ordered by GulfMark Americas, Inc. from  BAE Systems shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, at an expected cost of $48 million each ( ...

AUGUST 8, 2012 — Sembcorp Marine reports that its Jurong Offshore unit has booked contracts worth approximately $4 billion from Sete Brasil for the design and construction of five drillships. The ships will be built in Brazil at Jurong Shipyard, Aracruz, and will be based on Jurong Shipyard's proprietary Jurong Espadon drills ...

AUGUST 7, 2012—Excelerate Energy, The Woodlands, TX, has entered into a shipbuilding option agreement with Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for the delivery of up to eight Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs) between early 2015 and early 2017. The initial options are for 173,400 m3 LNG ...