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
Offshore
GL to class innovative Fjellstrand wind farm support vessels
AUGUST 8, 2012 — Germanischer Lloyd (GL) is to class the six trimaran SWATH WindServer wind farm support vessels that Norwegian shipbuilder Fjellstrand has on order for Denmark’s World Marine Offshore A/S
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
Keppel firms up $4.1 billion order for Petrobras semis
AUGUST 7, 2012 — Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has firmed up contracts worth $4.1 billion with Sete Brasil Participações S.A. (Sete Brasil) that will see it build five additional
Cochin Shipyard launches advanced PSVs
AUGUST 6, 2012 — Government of India owned Cochin Shipyard Limited last week launched two platform supply vessels that it is building for a European client. Bearing the shipyard Hull Nos. BY
Oceanteam refinances two offshore construction vessels
AUGUST 3, 2012 — Norway’s Oceanteam Shipping ASA (OTS) has concluded a $147 million refinancing of two offshore construction vessels, CSV Bourbon Oceanteam 101 and CSV Southern Ocean, with SpareBank 1 SMN,
First of new series of Platform Supply Vessels for Brazil
AUGUST 2, 2012—The 4,500 dwt Starnav Perseus, the first of four GPA 688SC PSVs (Petrobras PSV 4500), was recently launched at Brazilian shipyard Detroit Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Detroit Chile.
Ugland newbuild PSV to have innovative propulsion system
AUGUST 1, 2012 — A SALT 100 design PSV building at the Kleven Verft shipyard in Ulsteinvik, Norway, is to have a breakthrough propulsion system by Scana Industrier subsidiary Scana Propulsion. As
Ensco takes delivery of semi, joins S&P 500
JULY 31, 2012 — Ensco plc reports that it took delivery of ENSCO 8506, the seventh and final rig in the ENSCO 8500 Series of semisubmersible offshore drilling rigs on, July 30,