PaxOcean Engineering Zhoushan Co., Ltd. of Singapore, Singapore and The Levingston Corporation, Boerne, Texas, said today that they have signed a Letter of Intent to build a Levingston designed 415WC (World Class)
Responding to the increased technical sophistication of drillships and other mobile offshore drilling units and with the greater regulatory oversight of offshore drilling, ABS has developed new classification standards and notations intended
Norway’s Statoil is sending out an invitation to tender for a new type of drilling rig. It is specially designed by the industry on behalf of Statoil for mature fields on the
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings reports that its deepwater subsea services division EMAS AMC unit has secured a contract worth an estimated $88 million from Noble Energy. It will see EMAS AMC install approximately
Classification society ABS achieved another record performance in fleet size during 2010, reported Chairman Robert D. Somerville at today’s annual meeting. An eight percent increase in gross tonnage from year-end 2009 resulted
It looks like one finished Jones Act tanker will come out of AHL Shipping’s failed plan to build three 49,000 dwt tankers in the U.S. using a “virtual shipyard” approach. Mid Ocean
Pasha Hawaii’s second ship from VT Halter Marine will not be a clone of its first, the RO/RO Jean Anne. The new ship, the Marjorie C, will be a a combination container
Austal USA has held a groundbreaking ceremony at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, to celebrate the start of work on three new facilities including Phase 2 of the Modular Manufacturing Facility (MMF);
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation (NASDAQ: ATPG) today reported that it has received a permit to resume drilling the Mississippi Canyon (“MC”) Block 941 #4 well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Almost a full year after the arrival of the FPSO BW Pioneer in U.S.waters, BOEMRE today gave the final approval needed for the unit to begin oil and natural gas production at
