Seadrill gets $4 billion ultra-deepwater unit commitment

JULY 25, 2012 —John Fredriksen controlled Seadrill says it has received a commitment from a major oil company for new contracts on newbuild drillships West Auriga, West Vela and a third drilling

Skandi Aker gets milestone well-intervention role

JULY 25, 2012 — Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services has received a contract from Total E&P Angola for providing subsea intervention services from the oil services company’s purpose-built intervention vessel, Skandi

Inmarsat warned not to provide services to Iranian ships

JULY 25, 2012 — Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director, Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, has warned Inmarsat not to provide prohibited services to Iranian oil tankers and Iranian military vessels. Shurat HaDin –

Wärtsilä books ship design orders for Statoil PSVs

JULY 25, 2012 — Wärtsilä has booked ship design orders from shipbuilder Kleven Maritime for three of the new platform supply vessels being built to support Statoil operations on the Norwegian continental

Inland Salvage refloats stranded drill barge

JULY 24, 2012 — Harvey, La., based Inland Salvage Inc. (ISI) reports that it has completed the successful fuel removal, partial dismantlement and refloating of a stranded 2,500 ton posted drill barge.

Congressional move to preserve U.S.-flag mariner jobs

JULY 24, 2012 — U.S. Representatives Elijah E. Cummings (D, MD-07) and Jeff Landry (R, LA-03) have introduced the Saving Essential American Sailors (SEAS) Act, H.R. 6170, which would ensure American food

GulfMark Offshore orders PSVs for U.S.-flag fleet

JULY 24, 2012 — GulfMark Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: GLF) is adding four newbuild Jones Act platform supply vessels to its U.S. flag fleet. The company’s latest 10Q filing with the SEC lists

AVEVA selected for engineering of Transpetro LPG tankers

JULY 26, 2012 — GHENOVA Ingenheria has selected AVEVA Marine for the engineering of eight LPG carriers being built in Brazil. Last September, Ghenova signed a contract with the STX Promar shipyard

Graig takes delivery of handy size bulker newbuild

JULY 26, 2012 — Cardiff, U.K., based Graig Group has taken delivery of the the first of two Seahorse 35 class vessels building for Graig and partners at Jiangdong Shipyard, Wu Hu,

Fjord Line orders Rolls-Royce LNG engines for newbuilds

JULY 24, 2012 —Rolls-Royce has signed a contract with shipowner Fjord Line A/S to install Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) based power and propulsion systems in two cruise ferries being built at the

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