Latest Vroon AHTS has Oil Recovery notation
JULY 19, 2012 — Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has taken delivery of VOS Athos from Fujian Southeast Shipyard. The vessel is the first of 59-metre “A class” anchor handling tug supply vessels
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Growing offshore sector pushes salaries higher
JULY 19, 2012—Salaries are on the rise in the growing offshore energy sector, putting wage pressure on other industry segments such as classification societies and port state administrations, employment consultant Spinnaker Consulting
Tognum and Rolls-Royce win joint orders
JULY 19, 2012 — MTU-parent Tognum and Rolls-Royce have won two orders for the supply of marine engines and propeller-rudder systems. ”Winning these first orders confirms that cooperation with our new majority
HHI to sign $700 million contract for huge spar platform
JULY 18, 2012 —Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) recently was awarded a Letter of Intent (LOI) to construct the spar hull for a gas production platform from Statoil in a consortium with
USCG investigates Alaska drillship anchor dragging incident
JULY 16, 2012 — The Coast Guard is continuing to investigate an incident in which a drillship on charter to Shell for Alaska drilling operations apparently dragged anchor Saturday, July 14, and
Kleven to build LNG-fueled PSV for Remøy Shipping
JULY 16, 2012 — Kleven Maritime has signed a contract with Remøy Shipping for the construction of an LNG-fueled platform supply vessel. The contract has a value of about NOK 400 million
Atlantic Towing purchases new AHTS vessel
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
Statoil awards Technip LOI for world’s largest Spar hull
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
OSD secures design contract for Platform Supply Vessel
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
Drydocks World Dubai completes major maintenance project on NDI jack-up
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