HOS Platform Supply Vessel launched at Eastern Shipbuilding

JUNE 29, 2014—Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, recently launched the M/V HOS Black Watch, the fourth of six HOSMAX 310 design Platform Supply Vessels for Hornbeck Offshore Services (HOS), Covington, LA. Launched

Laney Chouest sworn in as New Orleans Port Commissioner

JUNE 27, 2014 —  Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal has appointed Laney J. Chouest to the Board of the Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. Chouest, who was sworn in during yesterday’s

Otto Marine sells three to Malaysian associate

JUNE 27, 2014 — Singapore-listed Otto Marine Limited says that subsidiaries have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to sell three 6,000 bhp AHTS — GO AVIOR, GO HAWK and GO HARRIER —

Total terminates Skandi Aker well intervention contract

JUNE 25, 2014 — Aker Solutions says its subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services has been notified by Total in Angola of the termination of a $250 million, two-year contract for the Skandi Aker

Bourbon takes delivery of 500th vessel

JUNE 25, 2014 — Paris-headquartered Bourbon has celebrated delivery of the 500th vessel. It says that this puts it in control of the world’s largest fleet of vessels operated for the offshore

Nam Cheong books AWB order

JUNE 23, 2014 — Malaysia’s largest offshore support vessel builder, Nam Cheong Limited, has won an order worth around $84 million to build two Accommodation Work Barges, with the option to purchase

NAO firms up PSV duo order at Vard

JUNE 23, 2014 — Nordic American Offshore Ltd. (NYSE:NAO) has firmed up a letter of intent announced earlier this month and entered into agreements to purchase two newbuilding Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs).

Damen Vlissingen stretches jack-up’s legs

JUNE 20, 2014 — Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) in the Netherlands has been chosen to upgrade the Rowan Companies jack-up Rowan Viking for a new contract with Lundin Petroleum in the Norwegian

Havyard sells another design package to China

JUNE 17, 2014 — Chinese shipyard Fujien Mawei Shipbuilding has returned to Norway’s Havyard Group with an order for design package for a Havyard 832 L SE PSV. The vessel is being

Drydocks World completes massive offshore wind platform

JUNE 15, 2014 — Drydocks World reports the successful completion of the pioneering offshore wind HVDC converter platform DolWin beta. The platform, the world’s largest of its kind in terms of capacity,

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