INNOVATION BY CONSORTIUM

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems, together with SAM Electronics , SCHOTTEL  and Zeppelin Power Systems , have delivered an integrated power and propulsion package for “M/V Innovation”, one of the largest and most innovative offshore wind turbine installation vessels to date. Read the rest of this entry »

DRIVING AHEAD

ABB recently won an order worth $80 million from Samsung Heavy Industries to supply energy efficient drives, motors and electrical power systems for five drilling vessels and two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to be built at Samsung’s shipyard in Korea. Read the rest of this entry »

FUEL AND LIFE SAVERS

The first in a series of five advanced new Swedish Coast Guard vessels have arrived in site after trials. Read the rest of this entry »

RESEARCH CONTRACT

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the propulsion equipment for a new, state-of-the-art, research vessel.

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WAVE PIERCING

Rolls-Royce received from Farstad Shipping the first order for its new wave-piercing offshore vessel.

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MORE WORK AHEAD

Ulstein Group´s Dutch based design company, Ulstein Sea of Solutions (USOS), has been awarded further engineering work on Heerema’s new deepwater construction vessel at DSME of South Korea.

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ISLAND EXPANDS

Island Offshore is to expand its fleet of Rolls-Royce UT776 class platform supply vessels with more of the same type.

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LIFE’S A GAS

When it comes to power management the offshore sector has been quite the innovator. This spirit of invention is now being seen in the very generation of that power.

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POWERED UP

MAN Diesel has announced a series of significant orders for its two-stroke, electronic ME-engines in Brazil.

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