Links for 2008-03-27
March 27th, 2008- Great Offshore Sells AHTS ‘Malaviya Nine’.
- Van Oord starts work on Indonesian project.
- Work begins on E.ON’s wind farm.
- Asia Pacific maritime show kicks off in Singapore.
- Hercules Offshore announces Saudi contracts.
- Decision still to be made on whether to salvage abandoned yacht.
- Salvage Or Sink: Alien Boat Lodged On Reef.
- ABB to transmit offshore wind for Germany.
Great Offshore Ltd has announced that the sale of vessel, “Malaviya Nine”, a 1983 built Anchor Handling Tug - Supply Vessel (AHTSV). With this sale, the current fleet of Offshore Vessels of the Company stands at 40.
Dutch dredging and marine contractor Van Oord reports that it has started dredging operations for the access channel to Banjarmassin on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia.
E.ON has set up its base in the Port of Workington in preparation for the offshore wind farm it is generating nearby.
The biennial Asia Pacific maritime show kicked off here Wednesday, featuring 841 exhibiting companies from 52 countries, 650 of which are from abroad.
US-based Hercules Offshore announced today it has signed contracts to provide Saudi Aramco with two jackup drilling rigs for three-year terms plus one-year fixed price options at the same rate. The Hercules 300 and Hercules 261, currently known as the High Island I and High Island VIII, respectively, will fulfill the contract commitments.
A decision is yet to be made on whether a delivery yacht abandoned at sea can be salvaged. The four crew on board the Air Apparence abandoned the yacht in rising seas 80 nautical miles off Kaipara Harbour.
Authorities may opt to sink a boat that was found abandoned off Urunao yesterday. It appeared to have been deliberately run aground while some 10 illegal aliens made their way into Guam yesterday morning.
The automation and power engineering major ABB will link offshore wind to Germany’s power grid. ABB will provide the technology to connect the self-proclaimed world’s largest offshore wind farm to the German power grid in a contract worth more than $400 million.