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
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
july 12, 2012—Offshore Ship Designers’ UK division OSD-IMT has been awarded a contract to supply the design for a modified version of its IMT 982 Platform Supply Vessel to be built at the
JULY 10, 2012 — Drydocks World, Dubai, has completed maintenance and upgrade work on Abu Dhabi-UAE based National Drilling Company’s (NDC) jack-up cantilever type self elevating drilling platform, Delma. Drydocks World has
JULY 10, 2012 — Keppel Kazakhstan and its consortium partner Ersai Caspian Contractor have secured a contract from Teniz Burgylau for a KFELS B Class jack-up rig worth $242 million. Scheduled for
JULY 6, 2012 — Chilean energy company Gas Atacama has awarded John Fredriksen controlled Golar LNG Limited the Mejillones Seaport FSRU Project. The initial term of the contract, in Gas Atacama’s option,
JULY 1, 2012—The first of two 99.9m multi-functional icebreaking supply vessels for Arctic operation was launched at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard on June 30. The hull assembly for sister vessel is expected to
JUNE 29, 2012 — Island Offshore, in which the Chouest and Ulstein families are partners, has ordered two platform supply vessels from STX OSV. The vessels will be of Rolls-Royce’s UT 717
JUNE 29, 2012 —Wärtsilä is to supply integrated power solutions to six new offshore Pipe Laying Vessels (PLVs) being built for operation in Brazilian waters. The majority of the orders were booked
JUNE 28, 2012—Destined to support Shell’s drilling efforts in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, the semi-submersible Kulluk and drillship Noble Discoverer recently set sail for the Arctic from Vigor Industrial’s Seattle, WA,