South Korea’s STX Group is considering selling a 51 percent stake its European unit holds in STX OSV Holdings Ltd , a Singapore-listed offsh… By Ju-min Park and Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) Source: Reuters, October 27, 2011;
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a deepwater drilling riser system to the DSME shipyard in South Korea. The riser package will be delivered to offshore drilling company Atwood Oceanics’ drill ship. The contract value is approximately USD 50 million and includes an option for another two units. The 10 [...]
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. today announced that a subsidiary, Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited, has exercised its option to build a third ultra-deepwater drillship with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. with delivery scheduled for the second quarter of 2014. Total cost, including commissioning, spares and project management, is estimated to be approximately $610 million and [...]
Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in South Korea for the construction of two ultra deepwater drillships. The drillships are scheduled for delivery in the third and fourth quarters of 2013, respectively. The total project cost for the two drillships is close to USD 1.3 billion. This includes a [...]
On March 30th, the company’s second drillship, Ocean Rig Olympia was delivered from the SHI Shipyard in Korea. Ocean Rig Olympia is now mobilizing to Ghana for her first contract. Naming Ceremony for the Company’s second drillship took place at the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard in Korea on December 16th,2010. Godmother of Ocean Rig [...]
Thrustmaster of Texas, Inc. received a contract from Hyundai Heavy Industries for the supply and installation of multiple sets of 5MW azimuth thrusters for the next generation deep water drillships being built at Hyundai’s shipyard in Ulsan, Korea. The vessels are of the Gusto P10,000 design and are capable of drilling in water depths of [...]
Honeywell announced that it has been selected by the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute (KOMERI), to implement its award winning Mar 08, 2011 – [1] UniSim® simulation solution at KOMERI’s new Testing and Certification Centre being built in Geoje, Korea. KOMERI is South Korea’s leading research institute, specializing in the development and certification of [...]
Vantage Drilling Company today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to provide services related to design, construction and commissioning on behalf of Aker Drilling ASA (“Aker Drilling”) of two Ultra deepwater drillships being built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (“DSME”) shipyard in Okpo, Korea. The high specification drillships of [...]
Following the successful share issue and with reference to the Letter of Intent announced 20 January 2011, Aker Drilling has through its subsidiary Aker Drilling Offshore Services Public Ltd. confirmed the turn key, EPC contract for construction of two ultra-deepwater drillships from DSME. The two drillships are to be delivered October and December 2013, [...]
Following the Board’s decision, announced in November 2010, to commission a new build vessel to service the emerging market for ultra-large transports, Dockwise has appointed Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of Korea as its ship building yard. HHI is scheduled to deliver the vessel during the last quarter of 2012, following sea trials, when it [...]
