Nordic American Offshore appoints CEO
MARCH 27, 2014 — Tor-Øyvind Bjørkli (42) will join Nordic American Offshore as CEO, effective April 1, 2014. Mr. Bjørkli will be working out of the Oslo office on the same premises
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Oceanteam and Diavaz form new company
MARCH 26, 2014 — Oslo-listed Oceanteam Shipping ASA reports that, together with Mexico’s Grupo Diavaz, it has established a new shipping company named DOT Shipping. Oceanteam, whose business includes the owning, chartering
Shipyard De Hoop wins order for Transmix vessel
MARCH 25, 2014 — Shipyard De Hoop, which has shipyards in Lobith and Foxhol in the Netherlands,has won an order to design and construct a 68.23 m x 15. 77 m offshore
Rolls-Royce packages ordered for two more Chellsea PSVs
MARCH 24, 2014 — Rolls-Royce is to provide integrated design and equipment packages for two more offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd in China for Singapore
Maersk Drilling names giant jack-up
MARCH 24, 2014 — In a ceremony held at the Keppel FELS shipyard, Singapore, March 21, Karen Tiffen, wife of Martin Tiffen, Managing Director of Total E&P Norge AS, named the ultra
BP back in the lease sale arena
MARCH 20, 2014 — BP was the high bidder on 24 tracts in yesterday’s Central Gulf of Mexico lease sales with bids for $41.6 million. BP was back in the arena within
DOF Subsea charters third Jones Act vessel
MARCH 20, 2014 — DOF Subsea, a subsidiary of Norway’s DOF ASA, has chartered a third Jones Act vessel to support ongoing operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Following on from the
Jaccar moves to take majority stake in Bourbon
MARCH 17, 2014 — Jaccar Holdings, the private investment company controlled by Jacques de Chateauvieux, Chairman of the Board of Bourbon, is preparing a bid for the Paris headquartered offshore services giant.
Damen completes six vessel PSV series
MARCH 14, 2014 — With the official christening of the World Sapphire, Damen Shipyards has completed the delivery of a six ships series of platform supply vessels to Norwegian company World Wide
Toisa MOCV to have Siemens drive and power solutions
MARCH 13, 2014 — The Ulstein X-bowed multipurpose offshore construction vessel (MOCV) that Hyundai Heavy Industries is building at its Ulsan, South Korea shipyard for Toisa Ltd (see earlier story) will have