Oil & Gas

JULY 19, 2012 — Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has taken delivery of VOS Athos from Fujian Southeast Shipyard. The vessel is the first of 59-metre "A class" anchor handling tug supply vessels being built at this yard for Vroon to have the additional ABS class notation "Oil recovery Class 2.". The "A-class" vessels are slightly m ...

JULY 19, 2012—Salaries are on the rise in the growing offshore energy sector, putting wage pressure on other industry segments such as classification societies and port state administrations, employment consultant Spinnaker Consulting says. “With demand for personnel continuing to grow in the offshore sector, the wage gap ...

JULY 19, 2012 — MTU-parent Tognum and Rolls-Royce have won two orders for the supply of marine engines and propeller-rudder systems.  "Winning these first orders confirms that cooperation with our new majority shareholders Rolls-Royce and Daimler is on the right track," commented Joachim Coers, CEO of Tognum AG. &nbs ...

JULY 18, 2012 —Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) recently was awarded a Letter of Intent (LOI) to construct the spar hull for a gas production platform from Statoil in a consortium with Technip. The total contract value for this project is about $700 million. The official contract signing is expected to take place ...

JULY 16, 2012 — The Coast Guard is continuing to investigate an incident in which a drillship on charter to Shell for Alaska drilling operations apparently dragged anchor Saturday, July 14, and drifted toward shore near Unalaska Island. Shell said yesterday that the i ...

JULY 16, 2012 — Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Remøy Shipping for the construction of an LNG-fueled platform supply vessel. The contract has a value of about NOK 400 million for Kleven Maritime and includes contains an option for a second vessel. The vessel will be built to Wärtsilä Ship Design's VS 4412 DF PSV design ...

JULY 13, 2012—Atlantic Towing, Limited (ATL), St. John's, New Brunswick, recently purchased a new 16,300 bhp Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel  from Singapore's Jaya Holdings Limited. The as-yet-to-be-named vessel  is a Wartsila VS 4622 design. Jaya is currently building two 16,000 bhp AHTS vess ...

JULY 12, 2012 — Statoil has awarded Technip a letter of intent for construction of the hull for the world's largest Spar platform on the Aasta Hansteen field in approximately 1,300 meters (4,250 feet) of water depth. The project will be led by Technip in a consortium with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI). Wi ...