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May 19, 2012We invite you to visit Marine Engineering Bureau (MEB) stand (No. B57) at the III international forum "Marine industry of Russia". Forum will take place in Moscow during period from 23rd till 25th of May, 2012 in "Gostiny Dvor" exhibition hall.
10 vessels with summarized deadweight of 43 000 tons were built only during 4.5 months of 2012, as follows. Our motto remains unchanged - "Reliability, efficiency and the European quality".
May 18, 2012May 17, 2012 - BP announced today it has ordered four new platform support vessels (PSV) to help deliver its long term business strategy in the North Sea. The vessels will be deployed to support its West of Shetland (WoS) and Norwegian operations and be delivered between the winter of 2013 and summer of 2014.
The purpose built and highly specified vessels have been designed to provide long term support to BP's North Sea business and will provide the capabilities BP requires to deliver its strategy more efficiently and safely. The vessels will have oil spill response capability and special tanks to transport fluids required for planned enhanced oil recovery (EOR) schemes.
May 17, 2012 - Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard has secured three major contracts totalling S$130 million, reinforcing its reputation as a world leading shipyard for ship repair and highly specialized offshore & LNG carriers upgrading.
The first contract is awarded by Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção S.A. (SNLPP) for the repair and upgrading of FSO Palanca. Sonangol is a state-owned company, and a subsidiary of Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola, E.P.
May 18, 2012 - Optimarin has signed a major fleet-wide ballast water treatment contract with Saga Shipholding (Norway) AS (SSH), the open-hatch carrier subsidiary of Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), the world's largest shipping company and owner of some 850 vessels operating within the car carriers, bulk, tanker (petroleum, chemical, LPG and LNG) and cruise sectors.
The retrofit contract, exceeding NOK 100 million, covers complete ballast water treatment (BWT) systems including engineering and service agreements for 24 sophisticated open-hatch bulk carriers.
With an agreement already in place for seven Saga and one NYK newbuildings, Optimarin's combined Saga work program now amounts to NOK 140 million. Optimarin's aggregate order book stands at NOK 250 million, representing over 110 vessels. This positions the company as the world's leading BWT systems supplier to the global shipping industry.
Three recently completed 21 metre Austal wind farm support vessels are heading to Europe, where they will shortly commence operations for UK operator Turbine Transfers.
The Wind Express 21 catamarans will be used to transport service crews and equipment to the many offshore wind farms that are located off the coastlines of several European countries. The vessels will arrive in the UK in mid-June 2012 and will commence operations shortly thereafter.
May 18, 2012 - South Boats Special Projects Ltd. and Iceni Marine Services Ltd., are proud to announce that the two companies have signed a contract for the construction of four further vessels to join the existing South Boats built ‘Iceni Spirit', ‘Iceni Courage', ‘Iceni Defiant' and ‘Iceni Pride'.
The order is substantial for both South Boats and Iceni and demonstrates a commitment from both companies to follow the changing and ever more demanding requirements of utility companies and their primary contractors.
The order is for 2 x South Catamaran 24m WFSV's to be named ‘Iceni Victory' and ‘Iceni Fighter', 1x19m WFSV Lock Special vessel to be named ‘Iceni Vengeance' and a further 13m vessel to be named ‘Iceni Legend'.
The upgrades set to transform automotive logistics
Russian logistics is primed for a full system upgrade in response to the significant changes made by the government over the last 24 months to shift vehicle production for Russia back to Russia. But with strong sales growth being seen in cities outside Moscow and St Petersburg, distance and the climate - allied to long-standing supply chain inefficiencies - continue to bring logistics challenges.
This is the context in which the 2012 Automotive Logistics Russia conference will be held in Moscow from 19-21 June.
May 17, 2012New contract with Ensco, Samsung to meet demand for deepwater oil, gas discoveries around the globe
May 16, 2012 - Ensco plc has selected ABS as the class society for its advanced-capability, ultra deepwater drillship to be built at the Samsung Heavy Industries, Co. Ltd (SHI) Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The ENSCO DS-8 will be the sixth Samsung DP3 drillship in the fleet and will extend the benefits of Ensco's fleet standardization strategy. With drilling capabilities in water depths to 12,000 feet and a total vertical drilling depth of 40,000 feet, this new vessel will meet the demands of ultra deepwater drilling.
On May 16, 2012, "XUN LONG 6", the 34m aluminum catamaran fast ferry, contracted and built by Afai Southern, departured the mooring quay slowly, arrived at the Shenzhen Shekou Ferry Terminal successfully at 16:00 and was smoothly delivered to XUNLONG SHIPPING CO., LTD.
"XUN LONG 6"is the second one of 34m series vessels co-designed and built by Afai Southern, its delivery marked the successful completion of the 34m ferry project.
May 16, 2012 - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won an order worth $18 million from Daewoo to supply energy efficient propulsion and electrical power systems for two new deep sea pipeline installation vessels that will build oil transport infrastructure off the coast of Brazil. The order was booked in the first quarter.
South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) will build the vessels. The end customer, a joint venture between French oil service company Technip and Brazilian company Odebrecht Oil & Gas, will use the vessels to connect subsea wells with floating installations in depths of up to 2500 meters along the coast of Brazil for oil company Petrobras.
May 15, 2012 - Shell, Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), Mitsubishi Corporation, and PetroChina Company Limited today announced they are developing a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Western Canada, near Kitimat, British Columbia.
This project will help make Canada's abundant supplies of cleaner-burning natural gas available to global markets including Asia's dynamic and fast-growing economies. It brings together partners with a unique combination of strengths: innovation, financial muscle, development expertise and access to important markets.
May 17, 2012 - Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, today announced the launch of FleetBroadband Multi-voice, a new capability that will allow up to 9 simultaneous telephone calls to be made through a single FleetBroadband terminal.
The enhancement to FleetBroadband (FB) will enable vessel owners and managers to separate crew communications from operational use. It will also provide crew with more privacy, making it easier to make personal low-cost calls away from the bridge.
Searching for alternatives to heavy fuel oil to meet the revised International Maritime Organization Marpol Annex VI convention?
There is a less expensive way to tackle the challenge than switching to distillate fuels. Consider Alfa Laval PureSOx to scrub diesel exhaust gas clean.
OMZ Special Steels, part of OMZ Group, signed a contract with Chinese company Shanghai Electric Power Generation Equipment on delivery of new generation high-chromium rotors, each weighing 18 tonnes. Deliveries are scheduled to complete in the second quarter of 2013.
New generation rotors are designed for steam turbines operating at supercritical steam (SSKPP) - with over 300 atmospheres of pressure and 590-650îC.
May 16, 2012May 15, 2012 - The Siemens Drive Technologies Division has been awarded a contract worth tens of millions of Euros from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to implement eco-friendly propulsion and power generation system in container ships which will comprehensively reduce transit costs and provide in achieving the best operational CO2 Index in accordance with the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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May 18, 2012Newbuilding deliveries from Japanese shipyards posted a drop in 2011 both in gross tonnage and value terms, according to Japan's ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism.
Last year's newbuilding delivery registered 575 vessels of over 100 gross tonnes representing a cumulative 19.06m gross tonnes, down 3% year-on-year. The total amount of newbuilding value of those delivered last year was JPY2.15trn ($27.1bn), a 12% decrease from 2010.
Construction of the first Project 21980 Grachonok special purpose boat for Pacific Fleet started at Vostochnaya Verf shipyard in Vladivostok.
Keel for the boat (serial number 8002) was laid down in April 2012. Totally, defense ministry ordered three such boats to be constructed by JSC Vostochnaya Verf with possible option to expand the series.
Italy's Eni said it has made a giant gas find at its Coral 1 prospect in Area 4 off Mozambique.
Drilled to a total depth of 4869 metres in 2261 metres of water, Coral 1 hit 75 metres of gas pay in single high-quality Eocene sand.
The Milanese explorer said it estimates the Coral prospect potentially contains between 7 trillion and 10 trillion cubic feet of gas in place.
Uzbekistan says to start exporting natural gas to China via a pipeline originating from Central Asia this year, aiming to ship up to 4 billion cubic meters by the end of the year, however, some legal issues have still to be settled.
The 2,000 km (1,250 miles) Central Asian pipeline, commissioned in 2009, provides strategic advantages and runs from Turkmenistan via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to Northwestern Xinjiang province of China. China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) intends to increase the capacity of the pipeline to around 60 bcm by 2015.
May 16, 2012Doubts over the Nabucco gas pipeline's future are growing, after Germany warned it may follow in Hungary's footsteps and walk out of the project. This will considerably brighten the prospects of its rivals South Stream and Nord Stream, experts say.
Russia and Japan could jointly lay a seabed gas pipeline, said Seiji Maehara, the Chairman of the Council for political studies of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan speaking at the office of the Russian Giant Gazprom. The proposal came from Russia and has been already discussed by the representatives of the Japanese business community ahead of the trip of Seiji Maehara.
Japan welcomes the intention to build a gas pipeline seen as an alternative to transport liquefied natural gas via tankers, following the nuclear catastrophe that hit the country and led to switching from nuclear energy to fossil and strengthening cooperation with Russia.
The EU is willing to fund a good part of the prospective Trans-Caspian gas pipeline (TCP), Platts reported with the reference to the EU Special Representative for Central Asia Pierre Morel.
Morel said at the CIS Oil and Gas Summit in Paris on May 14 that the EU funding for this project would come only with the most extensive environmental safeguards. Trans-Caspian gas pipeline running to around 300 kilometres will be laid from the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijani, where it will be linked to the Southern Gas Corridor.
May 15, 2012Mid-sized Korean shipbuilder Sungdong Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has bagged a contract for 10 livestock newbuildings from a Malaysian company.
PBHH (Pembangunan Buka Jijau Holdings) has ordered two series of five livestock carriers from the Korean yard to be built to concept designs by Groot Ship Design.
The company has contracted for Livestock carrier 7,000 ships capable of carrying 7,000 cattle and five Livestock 11,000 ships with the capacity to carry 11,000 cattle.
DSME begins work on construction of the world's largest container ship
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has begun constructing the world's largest container vessel after receiving the order from Denmark's AP Moller-Maersk, the shipbuilder has announced.
When completed, the 18,000 TEU container ship will measure 400 m in length and 59 m in width, with a deck wide enough to accommodate four football fields. It is the first of 20 container ships DSME is building for the Danish company based on orders from February last year. The shipbuilder said it plans to hand it over in the second half of 2013.
Indonesian port operator will triple capacity at Jakarta docks
Indonesia Port Corporation (IPC) is planning to invest around $2.47 billion to develop Kalibaru, an extension to Jakarta's Tanjung Priok Port.
Kalibaru Port, or New Priok, will more than triple the annual capacity of Tanjung Priok from five million teu to 18 million teu when fully completed in 2023. IPC confirmed this month it had received approval from Indonesia's Presidential Regulation to begin work on the ambitious project.
May 14, 2012RWE AG could scrap its plans for the proposed Nabucco pipeline, which aims to transport natural gas from the Caspian region to central Europe via Turkey, the German energy giant's chief executive said.
While still keen to import Caspian gas to Europe, RWE favors options "that keep our own financial exposure limited," Chief Executive Jürgen Grossmann said in an interview. RWE, which has been badly hit by the German retreat on nuclear power, could support other pipelines that have competed with Nabucco, he noted.
Singapore's Penguin Shipyard International launched 'Pelican Grace' - the first in a new series of 'green' crewboats dubbed the Flex-38.
The vessel's 38-meter hull is based on a re-engineered, CFD-optimised upgrade of the company's successful Flex-36 hullform, the flagship workboat of the Penguin Group. The Flex-38 is powered by 3 x 820 kW Baudouin M26.2 main engines and burns substantially less fuel than its conventional peers.
Fending off the distressed investors currently circling the sector, bank lenders continue to extend lifelines to several shipping companies trying to weather an industry-wide downturn.
These lenders face the difficult dilemma of either cutting losses and writing down portfolios in a capital-constrained environment, or betting that borrowers can survive long enough to overcome industry oversupply. And though bankers recognize that it might be a long while before these companies can right themselves, they remain leery of damaging longstanding client relationships.
May 11, 2012Statoil and Eni's deals with Rosneft mark the start of a new industrial era in the Barents Sea
Several unclarities still surround the deals. What will happen when Statoil and Eni find big resources, what will be the conditions? says analyst at the Arctic Securities Trond Frode Omland.
Several experts see major risks luring. Analyst Hans Henrik Ramm describes the deal as "great", but at the same time warns Statoil against being squeezed by the big state-controlled Rosneft.
"The framework conditions could be changed, the way the Russians have done on previous occasions, and that creates unpredictability, he underlines.
China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Holdings Ltd, the largest shipbuilder listed in Hong Kong, has won offshore rig contracts, marking its entry into the rig-building sector, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on May 11.
Barclays Research estimated the market value of the two rigs at $300-400 million.
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May, 2012May 21-23, 2012 • Dubai, UAE
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