TY Offshore and FMT christen first in ten barge series
JULY 25, 2012 —Trinity Offshore, LLC and FMT Industries, LLC have christened and launched FMT 3242, the first of ten 297 ft 6 in x 54 ft x 12 ft, 30,000 barrel
Technip to charter advanced OCV
JULY 25, 2012 —Technip (Paris:TEC) has entered a long-term charter agreement for a newbuild Skipsteknisk ST-261 design offshore construction vessel ordered from Bergen Group last month by Norway’s North Sea Shipping. (See
Seadrill gets $4 billion ultra-deepwater unit commitment
JULY 25, 2012 —John Fredriksen controlled Seadrill says it has received a commitment from a major oil company for new contracts on newbuild drillships West Auriga, West Vela and a third drilling
Skandi Aker gets milestone well-intervention role
JULY 25, 2012 — Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services has received a contract from Total E&P Angola for providing subsea intervention services from the oil services company’s purpose-built intervention vessel, Skandi
Inmarsat warned not to provide services to Iranian ships
JULY 25, 2012 — Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director, Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, has warned Inmarsat not to provide prohibited services to Iranian oil tankers and Iranian military vessels. Shurat HaDin –
Wärtsilä books ship design orders for Statoil PSVs
JULY 25, 2012 — Wärtsilä has booked ship design orders from shipbuilder Kleven Maritime for three of the new platform supply vessels being built to support Statoil operations on the Norwegian continental
Inland Salvage refloats stranded drill barge
JULY 24, 2012 — Harvey, La., based Inland Salvage Inc. (ISI) reports that it has completed the successful fuel removal, partial dismantlement and refloating of a stranded 2,500 ton posted drill barge.
Congressional move to preserve U.S.-flag mariner jobs
JULY 24, 2012 — U.S. Representatives Elijah E. Cummings (D, MD-07) and Jeff Landry (R, LA-03) have introduced the Saving Essential American Sailors (SEAS) Act, H.R. 6170, which would ensure American food
GulfMark Offshore orders PSVs for U.S.-flag fleet
JULY 24, 2012 — GulfMark Offshore, Inc. (NYSE: GLF) is adding four newbuild Jones Act platform supply vessels to its U.S. flag fleet. The company’s latest 10Q filing with the SEC lists
AVEVA selected for engineering of Transpetro LPG tankers
JULY 26, 2012 — GHENOVA Ingenheria has selected AVEVA Marine for the engineering of eight LPG carriers being built in Brazil. Last September, Ghenova signed a contract with the STX Promar shipyard