'Fairmount Summit' & 'Fairmount Alpine' tow laden barge from Corpus Christi US to Mediterranean offshore field.Both tugs towed the barge on which the 18,500 ton jacket was loaded from the US to the field South-East of Cyprus.In Corpus…
Universtiy of Maine's Advanced Structures & Composites Center granted up to $4 million to fund offshore windmill project.Habib Dagher, the director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is busy planning the first phase of a “potential $93…
Aker Solutions has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Aberdeen-based Enovate Systems Ltd.Enovate Systems Limited is a leading technology company within the subsea well control equipment sector. The financial details of the acquisition are undisclosed…
Subsea & offshore solutions provider Unique Maritime Group (UMG) subsidiary Unique System celebrates its 20th anniverary.Founded in 1993 with 3 employees, UMG through its expanding network of companies has now become a specialist in the provision…
COSCO Singapore subsidiary COSCO Guandong to construct two Platform Supply Vessels (PSV's).The contract is with a European ship owner for the construction of two PX121 PSV's at a value of approximately US$54-million in total.Delivery of the two vessels is expected in the first quarter of 2015…
Keppel FELS is delivering its first rig of 2013, 'Dynamic Vision', to Dynamic Offshore subsidiary Vision Drilling.The KFELS B Class jackup rig, Dynamic Vision, is the first of the 20 offshore rigs that Keppel FELS is expected to deliver in…
COSCO Singapore subsidiary COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., in China, delivers the barge 'Posh Mogami'.The150 meters semi-submersible barge has been delivered to an Asian buyer.The Posh Mogami measures 150 meters in LOA, 40 meters in breadth and 10.5 meters in depth.
Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX), through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, took delivery of the M/V Myrto, a 82,131 dwt newly built Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier that the company entered into an agreement to purchase in December 2012. The M/V Myrto is time chartered to Cargill International S…
Belgian power maker celebrates 100-year anniversary and jumps into a higher power class with a new diesel engineOn the occasion of its centenary, a new engine type, the DL36, has being launched to meet the future emission directives of 2016…
Onshore and Offshore global accommodation specialist, HB Rentals, a Superior Energy Services company, has promoted Glenn Aguilar to Senior Vice President of Global Operations, announced President Deidre Toups. Based in Houston, Aguilar…
FSIV (Fast Support Intervention Vessels) 'Bourbon Sirocco' delivered & 'Bourbon Shamal' soon to be delivered.Designed by Piriou Ingénierie and Mauric Design, and built by the Piriou SEAS shipyard in Vietnam, this brand new series relies…
Aquatic Engineering & Construction (AEC) appoints Martyn Conroy to Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region.Aquatic, an Acteon company, has the ability to lay flexible and semi-rigid product on the seabed, with wide experience of off- and onshore installations…
Pacific Drilling exercises contract option for Samsung Heavy Industries to construct another Ultra-Deepwater Drillship.The drillship will have a rated water depth of 12,000 feet, be equipped for 40,000 feet drilling depth, have accommodation…
An Atwood Oceanics subsidiary awarded drilling services contract by Mubadala Petroleum.The Atwood Orca, currently under construction at PPL Shipyard in Singapore, will have a rated water depth of 400 feet, 1.5 million pound hook load capacity…
A new year brings resolutions and renewed optimism for better times, and sometimes a wish for things to at least not get any worse. For the offshore energy industry, 2013 brings a combination of all. The economy is showing signs of life and…