Diamond Offshore orders semi at Jurong Shipyard
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE:DO) has entered into a contract with Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard in Singapore to build a moored semisubmersible rig, to be named the Ocean
Oil & Gas
Harvey Gulf gets charters for LNG-fueled OSVs
AUGUST 15, 2012 — Busy times at New Orleans headquartered Harvey Gulf International Marine. The company reports that it has signed long term charters for three of the four LNG fueled Offshore
Petrobras orders nine more drillships
AUGUST 13, 2012 — Petrobras has signed contracts with Sete Brasil, Odebrecht and Etesco covering the charter and operation nine drillships. The drillships are the final units in a program under which
Hornbeck Offshore picks GL Noble Denton for DP assurance
AUGUST 13, 2012 — Hornbeck Offshore Services (HOS) has selected GL Noble Denton to undertake dynamic positioning (DP) assurance services across its fleet. GL Noble Denton’s team of DP engineers will support
COSCO Dalian Shipyard books $170 million jack-up order
AUGUST 13, 2012 —China’s COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co. has won a $170 million order to build a jack-up drilling rig based on the LeTourneau Super 116E Class design. Delivery from the shipbuilder
Bordelon Marine builds series of new PSVs
AUGUST 10, 2012—The first in a new series of DP-2 Platform Supply/Multi-Purpose Supply Vessels under construction for Bordelon Marine in Houma, LA, is expected to be delivered in January 2013. Called the
BrasFELS gets $950 million FPSO topsides contracts
AUGUST 9, 2012 —Keppel FELS Brasil S/A has secured two contracts worth a total of about $950 million from the Petrobras-led consortiums, Guara BV and Tupi BV, for the fabrication and integration
GulfMark’s BAE newbuilds will be Green DP 2 design
AUGUST 9, 2012 — More details have been released about the two platform supply vessels ordered by GulfMark Americas, Inc. from BAE Systems shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, at an expected cost of
Sembcorp Marine marches off with $4 billion drillship order
AUGUST 8, 2012 — Sembcorp Marine reports that its Jurong Offshore unit has booked contracts worth approximately $4 billion from Sete Brasil for the design and construction of five drillships. The ships
Excelerate Energy orders eight FSRUs from DSME
AUGUST 7, 2012—Excelerate Energy, The Woodlands, TX, has entered into a shipbuilding option agreement with Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for the delivery of up to eight Floating Storage and