Singapore-Based Shipbuilders Win Over $8 Billion in Drillship Orders from the...
Ocean Rig Poseidon, Photo courtesy of Statoil/Heine Melkevi Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine announced today that they have secured contracts worth approximately USD $4 Billion from Sete Brasil...
View ArticleDiamond Offshore Orders $370 Million Semisubmersible
Ocean Monarch, a 5th Generation semisubmersible drilling rig, Image courtesy Diamond Offshore Houston-based Diamond Offshore (NYSE:DO) announced Tuesday that a subsidiary has ordered a moored...
View ArticleProsafe Signs Contract for New Accommodation Rig at Jurong, More on the Way...
Image: Prosafe Prosafe announced today they have signed a Letter of Intent for the construction of a semi-submersible accommodation rig at Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (JSPL) in Singapore. The rig, which...
View ArticleProsafe Adds Another $295 Million to Their Tab at Jurong
Image (c) Prosafe Prosafe finalized a US$295.2 million contract today with Jurong Shipyard to build the second unit of a new generation harsh-environment accommodation semi-submersible destined for...
View ArticleJack-Up Rig Tips Over at Jurong Shipyard, 89 Injured
Image courtesy anonymous gCaptain contributor Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has confirmed that all shipyard workers have been accounted for after a jack-up rig accident injured 89 at Jurong...
View ArticleJurong Shipyard Jack-Up Accident [INCIDENT PHOTOS]
gCaptain has just received these exclusive photos of this week’s jack-up rig accident at Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. Monday’s incident left 89 workers injured but amazingly did not result in any...
View ArticleChinese Shipyard Asked to Suspend Jackup Construction Following Jurong...
On December 3, the Noble Regina Allen (400′ ILC) jackup tipped over while under construction at Jurong Shipyard, injuring 89 workers. The rig is being built for Noble Corporation. China’s Dalian...
View ArticleSingapore Jack-Up Rig is Back on 3 Legs After Tipping Over
Image courtesy Sembcorp Marine Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard announced today they have successfully righted the jack-up drilling rig which tipped over on December 3rd of last year. The operation...
View ArticleJurong Shipyard Wins $596 Million Newbuild Order for Huge Jack-Up Rig
Maersk CJ 70 jack-up rig Jurong Shipyard announced they have received a USD $596 million contract from Noble Corporation to build an ultra-high specification jack-up rig with option for an additional...
View ArticleSingapore’s Jurong Shipyard Firms Contract to Build Q7000 Well Intervention...
Helix ESG’s Q4000, (c) Helix ESG Sembcorp Marine on Thursday said it has secured a $346 million contract to build a second semisubmersible well intervention rig for Helix Energy Solutions Group at the...
View ArticleTransocean Orders $1.2 Billion in New Drillships
The new rig is based on Jurong Shipyard’s proprietary Jurong Espadon drillship design. Image: SembMarine Transocean, the Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor which has seen its share price...
View ArticleTeekay’s Navion Norvegia to be Converted for Libra FPSO Project
Navion Norvegia, image (c) Philip Steven/MarineTraffic.com By late 2016, Teekay Offshore’s shuttle tanker Navion Norvegia will he installed offshore Brazil after an extensive yard period at Jurong...
View ArticleBears Crowd to Sembcorp After Stock’s 18% Drop
The new rig is based on Jurong Shipyard’s proprietary Jurong Espadon drillship design. Image: SembMarine By Jonathan Burgos and Kyunghee Park Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Sembcorp Marine Ltd. lost about $1.3...
View ArticleSPOTD: Centennial J Gets Set for Turret Installation at Jurong
Screengrab via YouTube The VLCC Centennial J was selected by Tullow Oil for the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) Project offshore Ghana where she is currently being converted into an FPSO at Jurong...
View ArticleHeerema Signs LOI for World’s Mightiest Crane Vessel
Photo: Heerema marine Contractors Heerema Offshore Services says it has signed a Letter of Intent for the engineering and construction of a new semi-submersible crane vessel (NSCV) with Jurong...
View ArticleTransocean Delays Drillships at Sembcorp Marine
Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean (NYSE: RIG) has announced an agreement with a unit of Sembcorp Marine to delay the delivery and related final payments of two dynamically...
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