1. Turret for Skarv FPSO for BP Norge AS in Norway A letter of award has been received from BP Norge AS for the turnkey supply of an internal turret. The turret will be delivered to Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea for integration into the FPSO hull.
Next year, a new combined International Regatta is to be held in Cowes for Metre boats and classic racing keelboats from 22 to 25 July 2008 to be run by the Royal London Yacht Club the same week as the British Classic Yacht Club Regatta which is being run in association with the Royal Corinthian [&h
Today Concordia Maritime’s product tanker Stena Perros will be delivered from Brodosplit Shipyard, Croatia. The vessel has been signed to a 5-year time charter with the French oil and energy company TOTAL to transport refined products. The Stena Perros, a so-called P-MAX tanker, is the sixth in a se
Twenty years ago first oil was produced from North Alwyn platform, in the UK North Sea. The Alwyn field (100% Total), which lies 440 kilometres north-east of Aberdeen was brought on-stream in November 1987. North Alwyn is currently one of the largest oil and gas processing platforms in the UK North
Energy Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which it has agreed to purchase, through a newly-formed, wholly-owned subsidiary, Energy Infrastructure Merger Corporation, a Marshall Islands corporation, nine very large crude carrie
Helix Energy Solutions announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Canyon Offshore, Inc. has been awarded a $160 million, three-year contract by an E & P operator in South East Asia, to provide the M/V Olympic Canyon DP II multipurpose vessel for offshore inspection, repair and maintenance oper
Navicomm Marine Systems have recently installed the first KVH TracPhone V7 mini VSAT terminal on a European flagged yacht. The 54m Perini Navi yacht is used extensively for charter and the client wished to provide their guests with a broadband internet solution.
An aerial search covering 1,100 kilometres of the South Pacific from Auckland to Norfolk Island failed Wednesday to find any trace of a large schooner with nine people on board which is overdue. A New Zealand rescue team is continuing its search for a missing yacht carrying nine people, including fo
Boustead Yachts Langkawi, a member of Boustead Heavy Industries Corp Bhd (BHIC), will build two 74-metre super yachts and market them through Monaco Yachting Technologies (MYT).
Chinese shipyards have been urged to tap an opportunity thrown up by a project to widen the Panama Canal to design new vessels which use the waterway, according to an industry executive. Work on the US$5.25-billion expansion started in September, and is expected to be completed in August 2014, in ti
THE Royal Malaysian Navy is looking at acquiring the capability of protecting its two Scorpene diesel-electric submarines. Royal Malaysian Navy chief Admiral Tan Sri Ramlan Mohamed Ali said the submarines could take offensive action ‘but we need the capability to protect the submarines from someone
Oceanteam ASA announced today that it has merged its Hydragrid business with IMERA Power. At the same time IMERA Power announced today that it has been awarded a license by UK Regulator OFGEM to build two underwater interconnectors between the Republic of Ireland and Wales, UK. The commercial terms
Urban Voyage, a New Zealand based 3D Design Studio have introduced Supercomputing power to the Superyacht industry through a recent collaboration with yacht owners and award winning builder ‘Yachting Developments’ in project ‘Bristolian’.
The first of two foreign raiders with their eye on ending Australia’s recent domination of the Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race has snuck into town as stealthily as the animal she is named after. The British super maxi City Index Leopard motored through Sydney Heads and down the Harbour on Saturday
