PetroVietnam unit orders jack-up at Keppel FELS
JULY 3, 2012 — Vietnam’s PV Drilling Overseas (PVDO), a unit of PetroVietnam has placed an order at Singapore’s Keppel FELS for a KFELS B Class jack-up rig for approximately US$210 million.
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Bergen to sell a chunk of its shipbuilding business
JULY 2, 2013 — Norway’s Bergen Group looks to be set to sell off a chunk of its shipyard business. It says it “is now in the final phase of clarifying a
Leevac acquires Tidewater’s Quality Shipyards
JULY 1, 2013 — Leevac Shipyards, LLC through its newly created subsidiary Leevac Shipyards Houma, LLC, has completed the acquisition of substantially all assets of Quality Shipyards, Inc., located at 3201 Earhart
MHI Nagasaki Shipyard lays keel for AIDA cruise ship
JULY 1, 2013 — Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) reports that its Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works has laid the keel of the first of two new generation cruise ships for
Oro Negro orders two more jack-ups at PPL Shipyard
JULY 1, 2013 — Sembcorp Marine’s PPL Shipyard, Singapore, has secured additional orders for two turnkey contracts, worth a combined US$417 million, from Mexico’s Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro, S.A.P.I. de
Fincantieri delivers third cruise yacht to du Ponant
JULY 1, 2013 — French yacht cruise specialist Compagnie du Ponant has taken delivery of Le Soléal. the third of three super-luxury French-flag cruise ships, from Fincantieri’s Ancona, Italy, shipyard today. The
Seadrill-Sapura JV wins $2.7 billion Petrobras contract
JUNE 28, 2013 — Seadrill Limited and Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad today announced that their jointly owned entity, Sapura Navegação Marítima S.A., Brazil has been awarded a contract from Petrobras to charter
MAN Diesel and Turbo package for Rieber seismic ship
JUNE 28, 2013 — MAN Diesel & Turbo is to supply of 8L32/44CR B.2 engines as part of a complete propulsion package to power the Ice Class 1A* seismic vessel recently ordered
Singapore owner picks Wärtsilä for 24 newbuilds
JUNE 28, 2013 — Wärtsilä is supplying propulsion packages for 24 new vessels being built for the Singapore based China Navigation Co. Pte. Ltd (CNCo) at the Chengxi and Zhejiang Ouhua shipyards
ABB wins $20 million FPSO order from Cosco Nantong
JUNE 28, 2013 – ABB has won a $20 million contract to provide power and automation technologies to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) built by Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Nantong