Rolls-Royce delivers 1,000th drillship thruster
MAY 6, 2015 — Rolls-Royce reports that it has just delivered its 1000th UUC underwater mountable thruster. It is the third unit in a series of six being installed on a Seadrill
MAY 6, 2015 — Rolls-Royce reports that it has just delivered its 1000th UUC underwater mountable thruster. It is the third unit in a series of six being installed on a Seadrill
JANUARY 20, 2015 — Classification society ABS has awarded approval in principle (AIP) for Hyundai Heavy Industries’ next-generation HD12000 heavy duty, wide beam drillship design. The drillship, which can accommodate a 20,000-psi
JULY 3, 2014—Leading classification society ABS, Houston, TX, has entered into a joint development project (JDP) with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to develop the first Liquefied Natural Gas-fueled
APRIL 9, 2014 — Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has clinched a 1.3 trillion won (US$1.2 billion) to build two drillships for what it identifies only
FEBRUARY 27, 2014 — Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine is starting the year with significant orders. Yesterday it announced that its PPL Shipyard had signed a turnkey jack-up rig contract worth US$214.3 million with
FEBRUARY 24, 2014 — Maersk Drilling today took delivery of its first ultra deepwater drillship, Maersk Viking, from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea, and the ship Maersk
JANUARY 13, 2014—Nautronix, Aberdeen, Scotland, has delivered the first two of four NASDrill RS925 and NASeBOP (Emergency BOP Acoustic Control) systems for two of Rowan’s new ultra-deepwater drillships, the Rowan Relentless and
DECEMBER 26, 2013 — Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ: ORIG) has taken delivery of its sixth newbuilding drillship, the Ocean Rig Skyros, from South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries. It is currently
DECEMBER 12, 2013 — Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (NYSE: ATW) has taken delivery of the drillship Atwood Advantage from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. The
DECEMBER 11, 2013 — Though it has yet to firm up a customer for the vessel, Singapore’s Keppel FELS shipyard is to start construction of the first CAN DO drillship. When completed