ALP acquires six long distance AHTs in $220 million deal

NOVEMBER 7, 2014 — Teekay Offshore’s wholly-owned subsidiary ALP Maritime Services B.V. (ALP) has agreed to acquire six modern on-the-water long-distance towing and anchor handling vessels for approximately $220 million. The vessels

Schottel creates hydrokinetics subsidiary

NOVEMBER 7, 2014 — Spay, Germany, headquartered marine propulsion specialist Schottel has created a new subsidiary to handle its hydrokinetic energy business, Schottel Hydro GmbH. The new company will be active in

Sinopacific shipyard completes Deep Sea Supply PSV series

NOVEMBER 5, 2014 — Zhejiang Shipbuilding, Ningbo, China, recently delivered Sea Swift, completing a series of twelve 88.9 m Ulstein PX 105 design platform supply vessels ordered by ship owner Deep Sea

Tidewater results beat the Street

NOVEMBER 4, 2014 — Offshore services giant Tidewater Inc. (NYSE:TDW) reported second quarter net earnings for the period ended September 30, 2014, of $60.9 million, or $1.22 per common share, on revenues

Hawaii ocean energy project makes progress

NOVEMBER 3, 2014 — Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. reports that its Ocean Energy Research Center (OERC) in Kona, Hawaii, has received two new heat exchangers (2-megawatt thermal duty each), and a 100

Japan Drilling to get second KFELS Super B jack-up

OCTOBER 31, 2014 — Singapore’s Keppel FELS shipyard has secured a contract for a KFELS Super B Class jack-up rig worth about US$240 million from BOT Lease Co., Ltd (BOTL), an affiliated

Wärtsilä design and equipment picked for AHOSV duo

OCTOBER 29, 2014 — Two new 150 ton bollard pull anchor handling offshore support vessels (AHOSVs) being built at the Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka have been designed by Wärtsilä and will

Rolls-Royce books its largest single subsea contract yet

OCTOBER 29, 2014 — Rolls-Royce has won its largest subsea vessel project yet. It has signed a £24 million (about $38.7 million) contract with Ocean Yield ASA that will see it supply

Gulfmark results dissapoint the analysts

OCTOBER 21, 2014 — “The global offshore vessel market flattened in the third quarter as fewer offshore drilling rigs were utilized than anticipated, and as oil producing companies continued their focus on

Nam Cheong books orders for new AHTS design

OCTOBER 17, 2014 — Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) shipbuilder, Singapore-listed Nam Cheong Limited, has launched the first AHTS built to its new, proprietary, NCA80E design. It already holds letters of

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