
Petrobras approves more OSV contracts
FEBRUARY 10, 2014 — Brazilian national oil company Petrobras reports that its Executive Board has approved the contracting of eight support vessels for its offshore activities. They are part of the third
FEBRUARY 10, 2014 — Brazilian national oil company Petrobras reports that its Executive Board has approved the contracting of eight support vessels for its offshore activities. They are part of the third
FEBRUARY 3, 2014—Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), Galliano, LA, has acquired “effectively all of the assets” of the fleet of Bee Mar, LLC, Broussard, LA, according to a senior executive at Bollinger Shipyards.
DECEMBER 11, 2013 — Qatar Navigation subsidiary Halul Offshore Services has placed an order with India’s L&T Shipbuilding covering design, construction, trials and commissioning of four Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) and two
NOVEMBER 18, 2013 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL reports that its Allanton shipyard recently launched the HOS Bayou (Hull 205) for Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC. The vessel is the
NOVEMBER 18, 2013 — Wärtsilä reports that its Aquarius UV ballast water management system (BWMS) has been granted Alternate Management System (AMS) acceptance by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). This allows all
NOVEMBER 4, 2013 — Nordic American Tankers (NYSE:NAT) says that Nordic American Offshore is adding a newbuilding option to the six PSX121 platform supply vessels that it intends to buy from Ulstein
OCTOBER 31, 2013 — The options for two PSVs just declared by Vroon Offshore at the COSCO (Guangdong) shipyard in China (see earlier story) push the total number of offshore ship designs
OCTOBER 23, 2013—One of the largest shipbuilders of offshore service vessels in the world, Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc., Panama City, FL, continues to launch and deliver new tonnage for the deepwater Gulf
OCTOBER 18, 2013 — Paris headquartered offshore services giant Bourbon reports that it has sold three vessels, including a tug, an MPSV (multi-purpose supply vessel) from the subsea services fleet and a
OCTOBER 15, 2015 — Rolls-Royce has won an order to provide an integrated design and equipment package for two offshore supply vessels to be built at COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd in