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Voith has developed a new marine propulsion system for installation into a special vessel used for offshore wind farm service. The Voith Radial Propeller (VRP) is rated at 5.5mW and has progressed from concept to contract in 18 months. The contract, which was signed last week with Strabag, covers the delivery of five propellers for a special vessel by F...
Jack-up drilling rig Hull L202, or ‘Perro Negro 6’ has been successfully delivered from Drydocks World’s Graha yard to Portuguese drilling company Comercio Maritimo Sociedade Unipessoal. The rig was delivered on October 2, 2009, from the yard – one of three Drydocks World facilities located on Batam Island, Indonesia and a part of ...
Swire Oilfield Services, a supplier of specialist offshore cargo carrying units (CCU), is defying market conditions by establishing Aberdeen, UK, as a Centre of Excellence for its Cargo Carrying business and creating five jobs. Work has already begun on the new paint curing facility at the company’s fleet refurbishment workshop in Aberdeen. The site...
Royal Dutch Shell is in the early stages of developing a floating liquid natural gas processing facility off the northwest coast of Western Australia. According to The Australian newspaper, the company is in the front end engineering and design phase of the project, which would service gas fields near the massive Browse Basin region. The fields in quest...
Massive, but recently dormant, global energy company Exxon Mobil has bought a US$4 billion stake in an offshore oilfield near Ghana, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal, which is reported to be Exxon’s first major purchase in around a decade, has prompted surging share prices for all parties involved, especially Tullow Oil, the operator o...
STX Europe, formerly Aker Yards, has been awarded a contract with Deep Sea Supply for the design and construction of a platform supply vessel. The new PSV 09 CD design is optimized for eco-drive in all weather conditions and designed by STX Europe in Ålesund, Norway. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2012 and, as it is f...
Two Western Australian companies have cooperated on the design and construction of multi-million dollar high-speed utility and crew vessels built specifically for the Australian offshore market. Maritime support solutions company Samson Maritime ordered two 40-metre fast utility vessels from Henderson-based Strategic Marine last July, with the first of th...
The Port of Gothenburg is expanding its range of rail shuttles by once again offering a shuttle service to Drammen in Norway. The first departure will be at the beginning of November and is part of a joint venture with Green Cargo and H. Strøm/Rail Terminal Drammen. “Norway has for a long time been a priority area for shuttle traffic and we a...
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