Floating News


Planned Floating Production Projects Hits All-Time High

Aug 15, 2012

IMA has just completed an in-depth analysis of the floating production sector. The 175 page report Floating Production Systems: Assessment of the Outlook for FPSOs, Semis, TLPs, Spars, FLNGs, FSRUs and FSOs is the 47th in a series of IMA reports on the deepwater production sector that began in 1996…

Excelerate Energy Orders FSRU Vessels from DSME

Aug 08, 2012

Excelerate Energy enters Into a shipbuilding option agreement with DSME for 8 New Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRUs).The option agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) is for the delivery of up to eight…

New Cruise Ship to be Floated Out by Meyer Werft Shortly

Aug 06, 2012

Fifth ship for US cruise company Celebrity Cruises scheduled to launch from the Papenberg, Germany, building dock
.On early Sunday morning of 12 August, 2012, the Celebrity Reflection, the new cruise ship for the US cruise company Celebrity Cruises (Miami)…

Allen Marine's Groundbreaking Aluminum Floating Dry Dock

Oct 16, 2011

Allen Marine, Inc. has announced the construction of the world's first aluminum floating dry dock. This fully self-contained, eco-friendly unit represents a major breakthrough in boat-lifting equipment. The aluminum floating dry dock is the brainchild of CEO David Allen…

Global Floating Production Spend To See Huge Growth

Oct 13, 2011

Latin America will account for half of the projected floating production Capex over the next five years according to a new Douglas-Westwood report. DW director Steve Robertson commented, “The dominance of this region is largely due to local…

Offshore: $11B in Floating Production System Orders Since March ‘11

Aug 03, 2011

IMA has completed a study of the floating production market, and the report documents strong growth in the business sector. According to the market survey, 14 floating production units have been ordered over the past four months – a record pace reflecting strong underlying market drivers…

ClassNK Establishes New Standards for FLNG/FLPG Sector

Apr 29, 2011

Society releases new Guidelines for Floating Offshore Facilities for LNG/LPG Production, Storage and OffloadingApril 28 (Tokyo) - Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) is pleased to announce the publication of its new Guidelines for Floating Offshore Facilities for LNG/LPG Production…

BEI Security Announces MarineNet

Mar 15, 2010

Houston-based, BEI Security announced the availability of MarineNet, an above water and underwater security intrusion detection system for commercial and military facilities. MarineNet can be installed underwater in one of two configurations…

Prelude Floating LNG Facility

Mar 12, 2010

Shell signed two contracts with the Technip and Samsung Heavy Industries consortium for the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the coast of Western Australia. These contracts formalize the announcement made by Shell in…

Dockwise Backlog Update

Mar 10, 2010

Dockwise Ltd. announced that contracts have been secured by its subsidiary Dockwise Shipping.  Next to an engineering assignment, the transportation of a semi- submersible rig, a jack- up rig and river barges for a value of $20m were signed for the short term…

Floating Dry Dock Officially Named

Mar 08, 2010

The Australian Maritime Complex along with Landcorp recently announced the name of the Floating Dry Dock at the official naming ceremony. The Floating Dock was given the traditional Nyoongar name Yagan by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Counsel in consultation with Nyoongar Elders…

Iberdrola Renovables, SENER Agreement

Nov 23, 2009

The Spanish company Iberdrola Renovables and SENER, Ingenieria y Sistemas, have signed an agreement for the active participation of SENER in the R&D concerning floating wind turbine supports moored over deep waters -more than 50m depth. The project…

Shell Plans to Build Floating Gas Plant

Oct 11, 2009

According to an Oct. 9 report from The Wall Street Journal, Royal Dutch Shell PLC announced plans to deploy the world's first floating liquefied-natural-gas facility, off the coast of northwestern Australia, in a move that could have major repercussions for the global natural-gas industry…

First Full-Scale Floating Wind Turbine

Sep 13, 2009

Technip joins StatoilHydro in celebrating the inauguration of the Hywind demonstration wind turbine, which took place on September 8 in Karmøy, Norway. Located 10 kilometers offshore Karmøy, Hywind is the first full-scale floating wind turbine and has a capacity of 2…

Daewoo Completes Largest Floating Dock

Sep 09, 2009

According to a Sep 9 report from AsiaPulse, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (KSE:042660), the world's second-largest shipbuilder, said that it has completed the construction of the world's largest floating dock. The dock is 1,437 ft long…

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