JUNE 14, 2012 — Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) subsidiary Western Geco has ordered two 127 m seismic ships from German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) for 2014 delivery. “The sector we have succeeded in penetrating
JUNE 12, 2012 — Canada’s Groupe Desgagnés has purchased the unfinished 95.1 m passenger-vehicle-container carrier Bella Desgagnés. Its builder, Croatian shipyard Brodogradiliste Kraljevica, started bankruptcy proceedings today Although the vessel was more
JUNE 8, 2012 — South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has ordered a Pilot Cutter 2706 and its fifth Stan Tug 2006 from Damen Shipyards Cape Town. Both vessels have been
JUNE 6, 2012 — The U.S. Navy has officially accepted delivery of the future USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) during a ceremony in Marinette, Wis. Fort Worth is the third littoral combat
JUNE 5, 2012 —Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) reports that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division launched the U.S. Navy’s next amphibious assault ship, America (LHA 6), from the company’s floating drydock on Monday. The
JUNE 5, 2012 — Norway’s Eidesvik Offshore is making the largest single investment in its history. It has entered into a NOK 1 billion (about US $ 163.5 million) contract with shipbuilder
JUNE 4, 2012 — Subsea installation contractor Cecon ASA looks to have hit yet another bump in the road to delivery of the three vessels it has on order at Lévis, Quebec,
JUNE 3, 2012 — Bollinger Shipyards has officially delivered the Richard Etheridge, the second vessel in the Coast Guard’s Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter (FRC) recapitalization project. The Coast Guard took delivery May
JUNE 1, 2012 — Maersk Drilling has ordered a new ultra harsh, high specification jack-up rig at Keppel FELS in Singapore backed by a four-year-contract with Statoil for development drilling on the
MAY 31, 2012 —The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) a $2.38 billion fixed-price-incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7).
