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Keppel Singmarine Brasil, Navgantes, Santa Catalina, Brazil, recently won two new construction contracts worth about S$140 million from Brazilian operators.Under the first contract, the new shipyard will build six 45-tonne bollard pull, twin-screw Azimuth Stern Drive (ASD) harbor tugs for SMIT Rebras. KSM Brasil will provide the detailed design and engineering work an ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) said today that it will raise the maximum civil penalty rate for Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) violations from $35,000 to $40,000 per day; and from $25,000 to $30,000 per day for Oil Pollution Act (OPA) financial responsibility violations. The increases coincidewith ad ...

Japan's Koji Sekimizu was elected  Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), effective January 1, 2012, during the 106th session of the IMO Council.The selection of Sekimizu will be submitted for approval to the IMO Assembly, which meets for its 27th session from November 21-30, 2011. If approved, Sekimizu would serve ...

Maersk Line will invest $1.9 billion more in expanding its Asia-Europe containership fleet, after it exercised an option with Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. to build 10 more Triple-E class containerships. Overall, Maersk is investing $3.8 billion for 20 of the 18,000 TEU boxships.As we reported back in February on marinelog. ...

Genesis Energy, L.P., Houston, Tex., has a goal of becoming the premier supplier of crude oil, refined products and CO2 transportation in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. It will bolster its crude oil transportation business following its recent deal to acquire the black oil transportation business of Florida Marine Transporters, Inc., Mandeville, La., and its affiliates for $1 ...

Brazil’s OSX Holding could receive a credit line of as much as Real 2.7 billion ($1.69 billion) to build one of the largest shipyards in the Americas, following the approval by the Board of Directors of Brazil’s Merchant Marine Fund for the prioritization of financial support for its Açu Shipbuilding Unit (UCN Açu).

The shipyard would be developed in the Açu Superport Industrial Complex, located about 150 km from the Campos Basin in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The shipyard is being jointly developed by OSX Construção Naval S.A., which has a 90% interest, and Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd., which holds the remaining 10% stake. The shipyard will leverage Hyundai’s shipbuilding technology and have an initial quay of 2,400 meters. Further development could expand it to 3,525 meters, enabling it to accommodate up to 11 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels.

OSX has already signed a letter of intent for what would be the largest construction crane in the Americas. The 125m high crane will be supplied by Hyundai Samho. It will have a distance between towers of 186 meters and capacity of 1,600 tons to allow the assembly and construction of large blocks and modules. Initially the shipyard will have an output of 180,000 tons of steel.

OSX has an orderbook valued at $4.8 billion, including five FPSOs, with capacities of 80,000 bbl and 100,000 bbl and three Wellhead Platforms (WHPs) for shallow water.

OSX´s chairman Eike Batista said the decision by the Merchant Marine Fund was “a confirmation of the national interest in the realization of the OSX Shipbuilding Unit, which is a decisive instrument so that we, Brazilians, may enjoy the benefits arising from the oil and gas that we have discovered in the offshore basins of our country.”

 

As we highlighted "Big opportunities for shipping" in Marine Log's Annual Yearbook & Maritime Review published in June 2011, Brazil expects to double its daily production of oil by 2020, much of which will come from its growing offshore oil and gas business.

 

June 28, 2011

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MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Copenhagen, Denmark, recently added CSSC Guangzhou Marine Engine Ltd. (GMD) as a two-stroke licensee. Part of the state-owned CSSC Group, GMD expects to produce 3 million hp of engines in an initial building period.  The engines will be built at a purpose-built facility that will begin production at the start of 2012.  ...

Paris-based offshore support vessel operator Bourbon has inked a five-year charter deal with oil and gas geophysical survey company CGGVeritas, Paris, France, for six new seismic support and assistance vessels that will be delivered at the end of 2012.Following a  tender procedure, Bourbon decided to build the 53-meter seismic su ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on June 27 to jointly enforce U.S. and IMO air pollution requirements for the North American Emissions Control Area (ECA). The requirements establish limits on nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions, forcing vessels operating within 200 nautical mile of the U.S ...

In a move to enhance customer service, leading marine propulsion company Schottel Group, Spay/Rhein, Germany, recently announced the formation of Schottel Russia, a subsidiary in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sergey Chestny will be the director of Schottel Russia, responsible for all sales activities in Russia. Chestny, who is a Marine Engineer a ...