Yesterday at the Fosnavåg Shippingklubb Cod Dinner the Foreign Minister of Iceland, Dr. Össur Skarphéðinsson announced that Fafnir Offshore, an Icelandic oil service company, had contracted HAVYARD GROUP to build and deliver Iceland’s first platform supply vessel. The Foreign Minister stated that Iceland is ready to embrace the opportunities and meet the challenges being brought [...]
The largest ship ever built by The Craig Group, an S class Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) launched this week at Balenciaga Shipyard in Northern Spain. The Craig Group has committed £50M to the construction of the vessel, The Grampian Sovereign, and its sister ship, The Grampian Sceptre. Managed by The Craig Group division North Star [...]
Shipowner Britoil Offshore Services Pte Ltd. has entered into a contract of design and equipment packages for two platform supply vessels of the new PX121 design from ULSTEIN. The vessels will be constructed at Britoil’s own yard, P.T. Britoil Offshore Indonesia, on the island Batam. The X-BOW® vessels will mark Britoil’s entry into the PSV [...]
Platform supply vessel Far Solitaire (UT 754 WP) has today been delivered from STX OSV Langsten to Farstad Supply AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farstad Shipping ASA. The vessel, recently awarded a «Ship of the Year 2012» title by Skipsrevyen, will start a term charter contract with Statoil with a firm period of 3 [...]
GE Energy Management’s Power Conversion business today announced it will supply Singapore marine services company Swire Pacific Offshore Operations (Pte) Limited (SPO) with integrated power generation, propulsion, dynamic positioning (DP) and automation systems for eight new offshore platform supply vessels (PSVs). Four of the PSVs are being built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in Japan [...]
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India’s Cochin Shipyard Limited has today delivered a Rolls Royce series of Platform Supply Vessel to Shipping Corporation of India. The vessel is based on the UT 755 CD design of Rolls Royce. “With the delivery of this high end, high performance vessel, Cochin Shipyard enters the league of select international yards capable of building [...]
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Viking Supply Ships has received a six-month contract extension with Talisman Energy (UK) for the SBS Tempest platform supply vessel. The primary function of the vessel is to transport supplies to and from offshore oil platforms. The new charter extension will mean that the vessel will continue to operate from Talisman’s logistics base in Peterhead, Scotland. [...]
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The naming ceremony for Olympic Orion, yard no 350 from Kleven Maritime, was held in Geiranger Fjord in the municipality of Stranda, Norway, on Saturday, June 23 2012. The multipurpose PSV of Marin Teknikk AS MT 6015 design is 94 m long, 20 m wide and with accommodation for a crew of 60. The vessel [...]
STX OSV Holdings Limited (“STX OSV”), one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, has entered into a Letter of Intent with Troms Offshore Supply (“Troms Offshore”) for the design and construction of one Platform Supply Vessel (PSV). Troms Offshore and Statoil have agreed to enter into a charter for [...]
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Market trends and very good feedback from the first ship in operation triggers Blue Ship Invest to contract another four platform supply vessels (PSVs) of the PX121 design from ULSTEIN. All four are scheduled for delivery in 2013. “The investment company Blue Ship Invest received its first vessel, ‘Blue Fighter’, from Ulstein Verft in January [...]
