Offshore support vessel M/V Celeste Ann sank on Friday morning after colliding with an offshore production platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, WDSU in New Orleans has reported. The news portal cited the U.S. Coast Guard which said that the incident took place 15 miles west of Southwest Pass (one of the channels at the [...]
Harvey Gulf International Marine CEO, Shane Guidry, announced yesterday that Harvey Gulf has secured plans to construct and operate the first LNG marine fueling facility in the United States, to be located at its vessel facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. The fueling facility will be a vital addition to the growing national LNG supply infrastructure, [...]
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International classification society RINA has launched new rules for Offshore Support Vessels, new environmental notations covering cargo handling and transhipment operations and a new guide on complete ship model calculation of passenger ships. All these initiatives were approved at a meeting of RINA’s technical committee held in Genoa this week. OSV Rules The free-standing and [...]
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. is wrapping up the Regulatory and Owner sea trials for Hornbeck Offshore’s newest vessel, the HOS RED DAWN, in preparation for its delivery. The HOS RED DAWN is the first in the series of ten new Offshore Supply Vessels under construction at Eastern. The photograph above was taken during sea trials [...]
Farstad Shipping, a Norway-based owner of offshore support vessels, today announced it has taken delivery of Far Statesman offshore service vessel from Vard Langsten. As previously announced, Farstad has sold the vessel to Ocean Yield AS and leased it back on a 12 year bareboat charter. The agreement includes options for Farstad Supply AS to buy back [...]
Nam Cheong Limited, Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel (“OSV”) builder, today announced that it has sold five vessels worth a total of US$110 million. One 12,000 brake horsepower (“bhp”) Anchor Handling Towing Supply (“AHTS”) vessel was sold to a new customer, an emerging offshore marine services company based in Indonesia that owns and operates a [...]
Vard Holdings Limited, formerly known as STX OSV, has entered into a new contract with Island Offshore for the construction of one advanced offshore support vessel of Rolls-Royce design. The value of the contract amounts to approximately NOK 400 million. Delivery is scheduled from Vard Brevik in Norway in Q3-2014. The hull of the vessel will be delivered from [...]
Australia: Attractive payback periods from the additional investments required for LNG fuelled shipping, along with no significant legal restrictions hindering development of LNG bunkering in Australia. This is the conclusion of a Joint Industry Project (JIP) focusing on LNG fuelled tugs and OSVs, managed by DNV with nine partners in Australia.
Italy’s Fincantieri, through its wholly owned subsidiary Fincantieri Oil & Gas S.p.A., has successfully completed the acquisition of 50.75% of STX OSV from STX Europe, at a price of SGD 1.22 per share, totalling approximately Euro 455 million (approximately SGD 730 million). In compliance with the rules of the Singapore Code on Take-overs and Mergers, [...]
Tognum, the specialist for propulsion and power solutions, will deliver 16 MTU marine generator sets with 12V 4000 M23S Ironmen engines for four Rolls-Royce UT 771 CDL offshore supply vessels (OSV) to be built at COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co. Ltd. in China. The gensets are part of a £26 million Rolls-Royce order to provide an [...]
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