Oil & Gas

MAY 6, 2013 —  Technip (Paris:TEC) officially named its latest new state-of-the art pipelay vessel on Friday at Florø, Norway in a ceremony held at the Westcon Shipyard. The ship recently successfully completed sea trials  after final outfitting and commissioning. Technip says the 194.5 m LOA x 31 m Deep Energ ...

MAY 3, 2013 — Harvey Gulf International Marine CEO Shane Guidry today announced the execution of three agreements for vessels totaling $540 million, taking the company's total capital expenditures since August 2008 to $1.7 billion. Harvey Gulf's newbuild binge now includes to STXCV offshore construction vessels ...

MAY 3, 2013 — IHC Merwede has today successfully launched Subsea 7's 550 t pipelaying vessel, Seven Waves, at its shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The ship will be used in the develoment of Brazilian deepwater oilfieldson behalf of Petrobras. The Seven Waves is the fifth vessel ordered by Subsea 7 from IHC Me ...

MAY 3, 2013 — Seacor Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CKH) is getting into the LPG sector. It reports that it has executed an agreement with shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., through a subsidiary of Seacor Ocean Transport Inc., for the construction of two Liquefied Petroleum Gas tankers (Very Large Gas Carriers, otherwise known as VLGCs) with expecte ...

MAY 3, 2013 — Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard the GC Rieber owned newbuild seismic exploration vessel recently ordered at Kleven ( ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Oslo-headquartered Hoegh LNG's 145,130 cu.m GDF Suez Cape Anne is to serve as the the first floating storage and regasification unit in China. Delivered from shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries in 2010, the ship is on a 20 year time charter to GDF Suez and Hoegh LNG has signed an agreement that will allow the vessel to serv ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Singapore headquartered Ezra Holdings Limited reports that its subsea division, EMAS AMC, has been awarded a subsea engineering, procurement and offshore construction contract from Norway's Statoil for the Smørbukk South Extension project. The contract is valued at approximately US$75 million. Mr. Lionel Lee, Managing Director ...

MAY 2, 2013 — Paris-headquartered offshore services provider Bourbon reports that at Euros 315.1 first quarter revenues were up 13.4 percent compared with first quarter 2012 (EUR 278 million) and stable compared with fourth quarter 2012 due to seasonal effects Bourbon CEO Christian Lefèvre "In a ...