Yantai CIMC Raffles books jack-up orders
JANUARY 13, 2014 — China’s Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Limited has secured an order from Central Shipping Monaco (CSM) to build two Friede & Goldman JU2000E jack-up drilling rigs. The two rigs
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Rowan drillships to be fitted with Nautronix systems
JANUARY 13, 2014—Nautronix, Aberdeen, Scotland, has delivered the first two of four NASDrill RS925 and NASeBOP (Emergency BOP Acoustic Control) systems for two of Rowan’s new ultra-deepwater drillships, the Rowan Relentless and
Strategic Marine building series of 10 crewboats
JANUARY 3, 2014—Australia’s Strategic Marine has a strong reputation for building high-performance crewboats. Currently, they are building a series of ten 42-meter boats with steel hulls and aluminum superstructures for Burnei’s PTAS
Perisai orders third jack-up at PPL Shipyard
DECEMBER 31, 2013 — Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine reports that its PPL Shipyard subsidiary has secured a repeat order to build a third Pacific Class 400 jack-up rig worth US$211.5 million from Perisai
Oaktree-backed Harkand orders DSCV at Vard
DECEMBER 31, 2013 — Vard Holdings Limited has secured a contract worth more than NOK 1 billion from a new customer, Harkand Group, for the design and construction of a diving support
Under-construction semi sinks at shipyard
DECEMBER 30, 2013 — Bergen, Norway, headquartered Odfjell Drilling reports that on December 28 the semisubmersible offshore drilling rig Deepsea Aberdeen, currently under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in
Siem orders two more dual fuel PSVs
DECEMBER 30, 2013 — Norway’s Siem Offshore has entered into contracts with Poland’s Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A.for four dual fueled platform supply vessels of Wärtsilä’x VS 4411 DF design. The vessels have scheduled
Pacific Radiance exercises PSV options
DECEMBER 19, 2013 — Singapore headquartered Pacific Radiance Ltd. has exercised its options to add two further Ulstein PX 121 design platforms supply vessels to the two that it ordered in September
Former BP engineer found guilty of destroying evidence
DECEMBER 18, 2013 — Kurt Mix, a former engineer for BP plc, was convicted today of intentionally destroying evidence requested by federal criminal authorities investigating the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Viking Supply Ships opens Canada office
DECEMBER 18, 2013 — Rederi AB TransAtlantic subsidiary Viking Supply Ships (VSS)(OSE:VSS01) has opened an office in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Viking Supply Ships has had several vessels working in Canada over