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Maersk Drilling Name Ultimate Ultra-deepwater Drillship
Maersk Drillingās fourth ultra deepwater drillship has been named in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Lene Bergā¦
FPSO Petrojarl Knarr Delivered to Norway
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Three tugs of Fairmount Marine have towed the brand new FPSO Petrojarl Knarr from South Korea to Norway in just 61 days. Petrojarl Knarr, one of worldās largest floating production and storage units (FPSO) for harsh environments, was delivered in the port of Haugesund, Norway, September 16th 2014. The entire voyage was under command of lead tug master Kees de Graaff on board of the leading tug Fairmount Sherpa.
ABB to Deliver Power Solutions to Ocean Rigās drillships
ABB, a global leader in power and automation technology, has secured an order to deliver total power solutions to Ocean Rigās two seventh generation new integratedā¦
ABS to Class the First Very Large Ethane Carrier
ABS, a provider of classification services to the maritime and offshore industries, has been chosen to class the world's first contracted series of very large ethane carriers (VLECs).
LNG Carriers GasLog Financial Results Q2 2014
GasLog Ltd. Completion of the initial public offering (āIPOā) of GasLog Partners LP (āGasLog Partnersā or the āPartnershipā) on May 12, 2014, raising gross proceeds of approximately $203 million.
Shell Prelude FLNG Module Shipped for Australia
The largest piece of the turret for Shellās Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility has set sail from Dubai for the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geojeā¦
Seadrill Nets ExxonMobil Nigeria Job
ExxonMobil has signed up for a Seadrill newbuild drillship for work off West Africa for up to three years. The ultra-deepwater West Saturn, currently under construction in South Koreaā¦
Prelude By the Numbers
![Prelude will consume more than 260,000 tons of steel, more than 5 times the steel used on the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and 3 times the steel used on the Golden Gate Bridge.](https://images.marinelink.com/images/maritime/w200h200c/prelude-will-consume-more-than-30785.jpg)
Out at sea, look! Itās a ship! Itās a floating rig! Itās SuperFLNG! While not āfaster than a speeding bullet,ā Shellās shipzilla Prelude is certainly more powerful than a speeding locomotive, and will be able to leapfrog in size, many of the worldās tallest buildings. By any definition, the super-size Prelude floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) vessel is gargantuan. And yet it is designed to cram everything youāll find in a full-sizeā¦
FLNG Prelude: A New Dawn in the Age of Maritime & Energy
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Longer than four football fields, as big as six Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and almost as tall as the Taipei 101 skyscraper, Royal Dutch Shell PLC is hoping that its record-setting, game-changing floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) facility will serve as a prelude to a killing in the offshore LNG market. Itās not alone. Many industry observers believe FLNG will do for gas offshore what fracking has done for shale or natural gas trapped in the ground on shore.
Valemon Topsides Installed
![Two hours after the Valemon topsides weres lifted off the transport vessel, the structure landed on its feet. (Photo: AndrƩ Osmundsen/Statoil)](https://images.marinelink.com/images/maritime/w200h200c/two-hours-after-the-valemon-30757.jpg)
On Monday, July 28, the topsides were lifted into place on the steel jacket on the Valemon field in the North Sea. Produced by Samsung Heavy Industries this is the first Statoil topsides built in South Korea. The structure sailed from the yard on June 15 this year, and after a quick stop in Åmøyfjorden, Stavanger, last Saturday, it headed out to the field. The transportation to Norway took 40 days.
Kongsberg Tech Chosen for 13 Newbuild Projects
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Kongsberg Maritimeās Full Picture solution has been selected by Chinese and Korean shipbuilders for 13 advanced newbuild offshore vessels with a total value of 330 MNOK. Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co. (DSIC), CIMC Raffles (CIMC), Cosco Shipyard (COSCO) and Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard (HDZ) in China, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in Korea are the shipbuilders that have selected Kongsbergās Full Picture technology deliveries.
GasLog Ltd. Announces Delivery of 'Solaris'
GasLog Ltd. is pleased to announce the delivery of the fully owned LNG carrier Solaris, from Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. She today, commenced a medium-termā¦
Excelerate Energy & the Year of LNG
![āConsider, for example, that South America was not an LNG consuming region seven years ago. In 2014, more than 100 cargoes will be sold there. As floating technologies gain acceptance, there will continue to be a big shift in the market demographics.ā Edward Scott, COO, Excelerate Energy](https://images.marinelink.com/images/maritime/w200h200c/consider-for-example-that-south-29060.jpg)
This being the āYearbookā edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, it would be remiss to not have coverage of LNG, one of the hottest fueling trends in maritime circles, particularly in North America. For a unique insight on a rapidly evolving market, MR caught up with Edward Scott, COO, Excelerate Energy, which is making big strides in the LNG Regasification sector, and recently received on the of the worldās largest and most capable unitsā¦
Seadrill Ink US$1.1-Bln Total Contract
Offshore driller Seadrill signed a five-year, $1.1 billion contract with Total for work offshore Nigeria, it said on Monday. The contract, for Seadrill's newly builtā¦
Far East Shipyards Bag the Week's Newbuilding Orders
South Korea, Japan and China shipyards update their order books with a clean haul of ocean-going newbuilding contracts, detailed as follows in the latest Clarkson Hellas S&P Weekly Bulletin.
Samsung Wins $410 mln LNG Order
Samsung Heavy Industries Co said on Friday it won a 419.5 billion won ($410 million) order to build two liquefied natural gas carriers for an unidentified European client.
ABS Secures Prestigious PFLNG Classification Contract
ABS, a leading provider of classification and technical services to the global offshore industry, has been awarded the classification contract from PETRONAS, Malaysiaās national oil companyā¦
ABS Wins Petronas FLNG Classification Contract
![Christopher J. Wiernicki (Photo: ABS)](https://images.marinelink.com/images/maritime/w200h200c/christopher-j-wiernicki-photo-abs-26717.jpg)
ABS, a provider of classification and technical services to the global offshore industry, has been awarded the classification contract from Petronas, Malaysia's national oil company, for the company's second floating LNG facility (PFLNG 2). The vessel will be built at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in Geoje, Korea. "This is a very significant award for us," said ABS Chairman and CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki.
Classification Society ABS Selects Key Advisors
Following the 151st Annual Meeting of Members and of the Board of Directors ABS informs that industry leaders were elected and appointed to serve on several bodiesā¦
Ultra-deepwater Drillship 'Maersk Valiant' Delivered
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Maersk Drilling advises that its second new drillship, 'Maersk Valiant', has been delivered from the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South-Korea. Maersk Valiant has begun its voyage towards the US Gulf of Mexico via Singapore to commence a two year contract with ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corporation. Maersk Valiant is the second in a series of four ultra deepwater drillships to enter Maersk Drillingās fleet.