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Pride International orders ultra-deepwater drillship

Pride International, Inc. (NYSE:PDE) says it has reached agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries, Ltd. (SHI) for the construction of a fifth ultra-deepwater drillship. Like the four other ultra-deepwater drillships that Pride has

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NOIA comments on new BOEMRE offshore drilling guidelines

BOEMRE the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, yesterday issued a guidance document that it said provides a “clear path forward for safe resumption of deepwater

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Hapag-Lloyd buys building, orders 13,000 TEU ships

Hapag-Lloyd yesterday ordered four containerships with a capacity of 13,200 TEU each from South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries. It also bought back its company headquarters in Hamburg’s Ballindamm. Besides ordering the for

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Wärtsilä propulsion for research ship

Wärtsilä is to supply the propulsion equipment for the state-of-the-art research vessel. ordered from the C.N.P. Freire S.A. shipyard in Vigo, Spain, by the U.K.’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The contract

STX OSV books PSV order

STX OSV Holdings Limited reports that it has secured a new contract for the design and construction of a platform supply vessel of PSV 09 design for an undisclosed international customer. The

Austal moves giant cat out of fabrication hall

Austal today moved its largest ever catamaran out of the fabrication hall at its Henderson, Western Australia, shipyard. The 113 m long vessel is being built for Denmark’s Nordic Ferry Service The

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Skipperliner books ferry contract

Skipperliner, La Crosse, Wis., has reopened under new ownership and with a $1.7 million contract to provide Wisconsin’s oldest operating ferry service, the Cassville ferry service, with a new tug and barge

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OPT wave power projects make progress

While most of the headlines about offshore renewable energy focus on offshore wind, there are other things out there, too. A reminder of this comes with the release by Ocean Power Technologies,