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Rolls-Royce has secured an order to design and equip two offshore supply vessels for Aberdeen, Scotland, based Gulf Offshore North Sea Ltd. The value of the contract to Rolls-Royce is approximately GBP 10 million. The newbuilding order for the two vessels was ...

Singapore-based Otto Marine Ltd. is making its first foray into the Indian market. Last month it set up a 50:50 joint venture partnership with strategic partner Limin Marine Private Limited. Today, Otto Marine reported the sale of a 40 m Anchor Handling Tug (AHT), Swordfish 3 to the JV  company, Otto Limin Marine Private Limited. The AHT has been completed at Otto ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has released a shipyard safety music video featuring a song written by one of its shipbuilders. Shipfitter Alfred Flythe wrote "Safety First" for a safety song contest NNS sponsored over the summer. ...

Singapore's Keppel FELS shipyard is on course to deliver ENSCO 8505, the sixth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series ultra-deepwater semisubmersible (semi) drilling rigs to Ensco (NYSE: ESV) safely, on time and within budget.  The rig is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2012 with zero lost-time incidents in over five million man-hours worked. Upon comp ...

The U.S. Navy has successfully concluded its final alternative fuel demonstration for the year with the operational tests of the 50/50 algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76 blend in a Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) amphibious transport vehicle at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City.The tests also ma ...

The U.S. Maritime Administration has announced that $9.98 million in federal funding is now available through its Small Shipyard Grant Program to help enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of qualified small U.S. shipyards.  The grants are available for capital and related improvements projects that foster efficiency, and competitive operations; quality ship constructi ...

As part of its joint effort to combat smuggling and transnational crime, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) delivered three new high-speed patrol boats to the Indonesian National Police. "Australia and Indonesia agree that people smuggling is a complex problem that requires a multi-faceted regional solution and regional law enforcement cooperation," said ...

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has issued a second set of regulatory violations arising from operations conducted in connection with the Macondo well. The violations were issued as Incidents of Non-Compliance (INC). A total of five INCs were issued by faxed letter to BP; four of the INCs were violations of one regulation in different sections of the well. ...

The result of a joint venture between STX Finland Oy and United Shipbuilding Corporation, Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, Finland, has been awarded a contract to build a multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel for the Russian Ministry of Transport. The contract, worth about EUR 76 millio ($101 million), has been awarded in conjunction with Shipyard Yantar JSC—on ...

The first of a new type of "compact" deepwater drillships jointly designed by Shell and Noble Corporation recently arrived in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. After completing commissioning and acceptance testing this month, the drillship Noble Bully I will go to work at Shell's Mars B Olympus.Based on an GustoMSC PRD 12000 MP design and bui ...