Engineering News

Everyone seems to looooooooove the X-bows, including Shell, who has partnered up with the Ulstein Group to come up with a next generation design of an

The Island Innovator, a DNV-classed semi-submersible drilling and well intervention rig was delivered today by COSCO Qidong shipyard to its new owner, Odfjell

MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, a leading international manufacturer of large-bore diesel engines and turbomachinery, has concluded a long-term service agreement

ABB announced today the winning of a $35 million order from the Baltic Shipyard Ltd to supply Azipod propulsion and associated distribution systems for a new

There are a few headlines going around today in some major publications and by the Associated Press claiming that China has announced plans to build 50

China’s Rongsheng Heavy Industries announced today the delivery of a pair of 380,000 DWT Very Large Ore Carriers (VLOCs); one to Brazilian ore giant

d’Amico International Shipping S.A. (Borsa Italiana: DIS), has announced that its subsidiary d’Amico Tankers Ltd has signed a $66 million contract

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today the receipt of a $296 million contract modification, under a previously

Following dismal news from the Brazilian Federal Court yesterday, offshore drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) received an

Amid the throngs of maritime professionals from around the world and the huge expanse of the 2012 SMM Hamburg conference, I sat down with the American Bureau

OSLO — DNV announced today that they have been awarded the contract to class the Petronas LNG FPSO (FLNG). The unit will be built by DSME in Korea and

While at the SMM Hamburg conference a few weeks ago, I met up with Sigurd Jenssen, Director, EGC at Wärtsilä Environmental Solutions Tell me a bit about

One of the biggest issues facing ship owners these days is what do to about the IMO emissions regulations, particularly those referring to sulfur oxides (SOx),

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) and French marine engineering firm Gas Transport & Technigaz (GTT), announced that they have entered into a

With future projections showing increased demand for deepwater rigs, Seadrill announced today that they have signed another US$600 million contract with

Ulstein said Thursday that it has entered into a contract with China’s Sinopacific’s Zhejiang yard for the delivery of twelve design packages for a

  Update: Unfortunately you will not be seeing a X-Bow USCG cutter anytime soon, as Vigor was not one of the three shipyards selected for the next round

As oil and gas companies extend their presence to remote and ultra-deep waters, one of their main challenges is to maintain environmentally responsible

*Update* Although JFE Holdings, Inc. and IHI Corporation announced on August 27, 2012 that the management integration of their respective subsidiaries

Scott Ward has joined Jensen Maritime Consultants as a naval architect in the company’s new office in the New Orleans business district reporting to