W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade & Technical Press release, 18 March 2010 W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has received an award for supplier excellence from CNOOC, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation. After rigorous internal evaluation by project management teams, 28 Chinese and international vendors participating in nine of CNOOC’s major projects were honoured. W?rtsil? is involved in four of these projects. This was the first time that CNOOC had arranged such an event to recognise its best suppliers, and the awards were presented at...

Davie Yards Inc. (Lauzon, Quebec) recently sought protection under the Canadian Companies’ Credit Arrangement Act (CCAA) from creditors.? Cecon ASA, Davie’s largest customer, has initiated a rapid and detailed assessment of the performance on Cecon’s three vessels under construction at the Davie yard.? The assessment will commence immediately on approval by Davie’s Board of Directors. Cecon has engaged companies with specialized capability in the marine industry and shipbuilding to support this external assessment process.? These companies include, Upper Lakes Marine ...

W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade & Technical Press release, 4 March 2010 at 10 am EET W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has received an order to power the new cruise vessel of Carnival Corporation, USA carrying the preliminary name Carnival Dream 3. The vessel will be built by the Fincantieri Monfalcone shipyard in Italy and its launch is scheduled for August 2011. Carnival Dream 3 will enter service in the spring of 2012. W?rtsil?’s scope of supply includes six W?rtsil? 46 engines. “W?rtsil? and Carnival Corporation have been co...

(soundings) The International Yacht Restoration School’s fifth annual Marine Industry Career Day is set for March 6 in Newport, R.I.  Source ...

W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade & Technical Press 17 February 2010 at 11 am EET W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has been awarded a contract by DSD Shipping AS of Stavanger, Norway to retrofit the main engines on four DSD Shipping vessels with the W?rtsil? Retrofit Pulse Lubricating System. The Retrofit Pulse Lubricating System (RPLS) is designed to lower the oil feed rate to the engine, thus cutting the consumption of lubricating oil. This creates obvious savings in operating costs, and also has a positive effect on exhaust emissions. The DSD Shipp...

W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade & Technical Press, 16 February 2010 at 11 am EET W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has received the first order for its new W?rtsil? RT-flex35 two-stroke engine. The W?rtsil? licensee, Yichang Marine Diesel Engine Co. (YMD), manufacturing low-speed marine engines in China, has signed a contract with Ningbo Donghai Shipping Co. Ltd to deliver five W?rtsil? RT-flex35 engines for a series of five chemical tankers. ‘Among low-speed engines with smaller bores, the biggest advantages of W?rtsil? RT-flex35 are its low f...

W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade & Technical Press release, 11 February 2010 W?rtsil? has extensive experience in providing long-term operational and management services, enabling performance optimisation for about 1000 similar engines installed in ships and land-based power plants all over the world. W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has signed a five-year maintenance agreement with Finnish Neste Oil. The agreement covers both the main and auxiliary engines, delivered by W?rtsil?, for eight vessels in the Neste Oil fleet. According to the agreement, ...

(soundings) With more than four decades in the marine industry, Bob Long has seen tough times before. Given the oil embargo, the luxury tax, and the general ups and downs of the economy, periodic economic adversity was just part of doing business when he served 18 years as president of Wellcraft Marine Corp. and in upper management positions for other marine companies.  Source ...

W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade and Technical Press release, 30 December 2009 W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has signed a long term service agreement with Maersk LNG. The agreement includes maintenance planning, condition & performance monitoring, co-ordination and supply of technical services, parts and service work for five 165,000 cum LNG vessels equipped with W?rtsil? 50DF dual-fuel engines over a 5 year period. “For Maersk LNG, this service agreement means improved levels of certainty regarding servicing of the main engines on our LNG v...

The global container shipping industry faces a tough recovery in 2010 after the decline in global trade volumes this year, according to a forecast by Business Monitor International (BMI), the London-based global industry research and analysis firm. To gauge the magnitude of the recovery that lies ahead for the container sector, BMI uses its global port container throughput indicators for 2009. Since final figures for the year have yet to be released, BMI makes its assumptions using its forecasts, which were reviewed after the first six months of 2009 with H1 2009 data being added to its forec...

(soundings) Marine industry veteran Donald G. Rocheleau passed away in his home last Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 76.  Source ...

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the world’s second-biggest shipbuilder, said on Friday that it was considering building a wind power equipment plant in China. Leading shipyards are entering the fast-growing wind power industry, seeking new revenue sources to offset a lingering downturn in the shipmaking business. Shipbuilders are expected to have an edge in the emerging offshore wind power sector with their expertise in marine structures. Daewoo earlier this year bought Dewind, a wind power turbine unit of U.S. Composite Technol...

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) and Keppel Verolme BV (Keppel Verolme), has secured two contracts worth a total of about $165 million. The first project, secured by Keppel Shipyard from repeat customer Petrobras Netherlands B.V (PNBV), is for the pre-conversion of P-58, a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Campos Basin. The second project involves the repair and modification of the semisubmersible pipelay vessel, Castoro Sei for Saipem S.p.A (Saipem) by Keppel Verolme. Mr Tong Chong Heong, ...

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiary, Keppel FELS Brasil, has secured contracts from Noble Corporation (Noble) to upgrade and repair two of Noble’s Brazil-based drillships for US$304 million (S$421.6 million). The scope of work covers the fabrication, repair and replacement of components, including the stern section, accommodation blocks, sponsons and heliport. Work on the drillships, Noble Leo Segerius and Noble Roger Eason, will be done sequentially at Keppel’s BrasFELS yard in Angra dos Reis, beginning with the arrival of the first drill...

W?rtsil? Corporation, Trade & Technical press release, 9 November 2009 W?rtsil?, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has signed a ship design contract with Pipavav Shipyard of India. The contract calls for a total of 12 Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) to be designed by W?rtsil? and built by Pipavav, for delivery to ONGC – Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd, which is the largest oil and gas producer in India. The yard is scheduled to begin production of the first seven vessels in the first quarter of 2010. W?rtsil?’s strong track record i...

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s major ship power system integrator, has signed a ship design contract with Pipavav Shipyard of India. The contract calls for a total of 12 Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) to be designed by Wärtsilä and built by… Read at Wartsila wins Pipavav contract ...

Greg Combet, Acting Minister for Defence, today announced that a contract had been signed with the United States RAND Corporation to complete a Domestic Design Study for the Future Submarine Project, SEA 1000. “As outlined in the White Paper, the Government has decided to acquire 12 new Future Submarines, to be assembled in South Australia. This project will be the largest and most complex defence procurement undertaken in Australia’s history,” said Mr Combet. “The Domestic Design Study will examine Australia’s submarine design capability and capacity. Investig...

Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) has delivered two rigs safely, ahead of schedule and within budget to owners. The KFELS B Class jackup rig, Greatdrill Chitra, was delivered to India’s Greatship Global Energy Services Pte Ltd (Greatship) 12 days ahead of schedule, earning Keppel FELS a bonus of S$300,000. Keppel FELS also delivered Gold Star, the world’s first DSSTM 38 deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig, to Brazilian operator, Queiroz Galv?o ?leo e G?s (QGOG), six days early. Both rigs are well on-track for their maiden deployments. Greatdrill Chitra will work for India’...

Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) is on track to deliver the first floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to BW Pioneer Ltd, an affiliate of BW Offshore. Named today at Keppel Shipyard, the vessel BW Pioneer will be turret moored at a water depth of about 2,600 metres – by far the deepest for an FPSO. The FPSO, which is nearing completion, has achieved an impressive safety record of more than 4 million incident-free man-hours to-date. BW Pioneer has been leased by Petrobras America Inc. to operate in the Cascade and Chinook fiel...

Keppel Shipyard Limited (Keppel Shipyard) is on track to deliver the first floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) to BW Pioneer Ltd, an affiliate of BW Offshore. Named today at Keppel Shipyard, the vessel BW Pioneer will be turret moored at a water depth of about 2,600 metres – by far the deepest for an FPSO. The FPSO, which is nearing completion, has achieved an impressive safety record of more than 4 million incident-free man-hours to-date. BW Pioneer has been leased by Petrobras America Inc. to operate in the Cascade and Chinook fiel...