Oil & Gas

MAY 3, 2013 — Seacor Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CKH) is getting into the LPG sector. It reports that it has executed an agreement with shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., through a subsidiary of Seacor Ocean Transport Inc., for the construction of two Liquefied Petroleum Gas tankers (Very Large Gas Carriers, otherwise known as VLGCs) with expecte ...

MAY 3, 2013 — Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard the GC Rieber owned newbuild seismic exploration vessel recently ordered at Kleven ( ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Oslo-headquartered Hoegh LNG's 145,130 cu.m GDF Suez Cape Anne is to serve as the the first floating storage and regasification unit in China. Delivered from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries in 2010, the ship is on a 20 year time charter to GDF Suez and Hoegh LNG has signed an agreement that will allow the vessel to serv ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Singapore headquartered Ezra Holdings Limited reports that its subsea division, EMAS AMC, has been awarded a subsea engineering, procurement and offshore construction contract from Norway's Statoil for the Smørbukk South Extension project. The contract is valued at approximately US$75 million. Mr. Lionel Lee, Managing Director ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Paris-headquartered offshore services provider Bourbon reports that at Euros 315.1 first quarter revenues were up 13.4 percent compared with first quarter 2012 (EUR 278 million) and stable compared with fourth quarter 2012 due to seasonal effects Bourbon CEO Christian Lefèvre "In a ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Norwegian shipbuilder Havyard has ordered two cranes from Cargotec's MacGregor subsidiary for installation on the 113 m subsea IMR vessel it is building for Nigeria's Marine Platforms Limited (MPL). ( ...

APRIL 29, 2012 — Hong Kong based Kuma Shipping is to build two platform supply vessels of the new Ulstein P128 design at a Chinese shipyard for planned delivery in 2014. The design has been developed to serve the general PSV market related to work-over barges and jack-up rigs. "This is a des ...

APRIL 26 2013 — Oslo-listed Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has unveiled what it says is the "ultimate seismic acquisition platform," the 24-streamer Ramform Titan which was named today at the MHI shipyard in Nagasaki, Japan. The new ship, which is the first in a series of four from the same shipbuilder, will be the most powe ...