OCTOBER 15, 2012—Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc., (HOS), which recently signed a contract with Bollinger Shipyards to stretch six Offshore Support Vessels for deepwater operations, has extended its newbuilding plans with orders for two
OCTOBER 10, 2012—Siemens began field testing of its new, huge 154-meter rotor for the six-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine in Østerild, Denmark. The direct-drive wind turbine is equipped with the world’s longest
OCTOBER 10, 2012—One of the keys to complying with the the North American Emissions Control Area (ECA), which went into force this past August, is the availability of quality low sulfur fuel.
OCTOBER 5, 2012—Corvus Energy, Richmond, BC, Canada, is supplying the battery pack and battery management system for the Viking Lady, the first commercial vessel to use a fuel cell specially adapted for
OCTOBER 5, 2012—Brazil shipyard Wilson, Sons is the midst of constructing six Platform Supply Vessels under license based on Damen’s PSV 4500 design for Wilson Sons Ultratug Offshore (WSUT). Two PSVs have
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012—General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT, was recently awarded a $94 million contract in relation to the fire restoration efforts to the damaged Los Angeles Class fast attack nuclear
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012—Valve and automation technology specialist, ISCOLA, Inc., recently announced that its product, Pyro-Torq, has earned ABS approval as the only coating system currently approved for fire protection of aluminum pneumatic
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012—Ever Laden, the second L-type containership of Evergreen Line, was recently christened by S.S. Lin, the Evergreen Group’s First Vice Group Chairman, at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Korea.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012—Rowan Companies plc, Houston, TX, said it has exercised its option to build a fourth GustoMSC P10,000 design ultra-deepwater drillship at South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. with delivery
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012—Increasing its focus on deepwater, giant offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. has inked a definitive agreements to sell 38 shallow water drilling rigs to a newly formed company Shelf Drilling