Vessels & Shipyards

Singapore-based Keppel Shipyard has announced two FPSO conversion contracts from repeat customers, said to be worth a combined value of S$190 million. The contracts are from SBM Offshore and M3nergy Offshore.

UK instrumentation company PSM says that its level transmitter technology was recently employed in a floating dock building project at a Turkish shipyard .

STX has announced a plan for restructuring at its Finnish shipyards, following the decline in orders, low profitability levels and what it calls “stiffened competition”.

According to UK computer aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) specialist Aveva, the use of laser scanning can give shipyards a competitive edge in refit and conversion projects, such as the installation of…

Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) is launching a service for the ship repair market, with the aim of streamlining dry-docking operations through the use of of integrated ships agency, safety and equipment services…

OSD-IMT, a division of Offshore Ship Designers, has secured a design contract for two IMT 965 seismic support vessels with a bollard pull in excess of 50t for China Oilfield Services Ltd…

Providing a major capacity boost and raising the stakes in the high-density segment of the rapidly growing market for marine seismic data acquisition, Norwegian-headquartered specialist Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) is investing in a…

Scotland-based Craig Group has ordered six emergency response and rescue vessels from Balenciaga in Spain.

The new round of heavy, expensive but comparatively fragile subsea modules are once more pushing against the limits of their deployment equipment and, according to Stevie Knight, are prompting a rethink.

There’s more tonnage needed in the subsea construction market, but vessels are expensive, so any innovation that can help keep the rates down may well prove popular, writes Stevie Knight