Seoul, South Korea-headquartered Samsung Heavy Industries will merge with Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd., the companies announced on 1 September 2014. The goal of the merger is to allow the companies a chance to become a global top-tier EPC (engineering…
Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for use on Total's Egina FPSO. The order, worth about SEK 240 million…
Pacific Drilling’s ultra deepwater Pacific Sharav began its five-year drilling contract for Chevron on 27 August 2014. The contract is estimated to be worth more than US$1 billion, bringing Pacific Drilling’s total contract backlog as of 22 June 2012…
Weighing an impressive 4300-tonnes, the largest piece of the turret for Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility has set sail from Dubai for the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. When complete…
Kongsberg Maritime’s ‘Full Picture’ solution has been selected by Chinese and Korean shipbuilders for 13 advanced newbuild offshore vessels with a total value of NOK330 million. Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Offshore Co. (DSIC), CIMC Raffles (CIMC)…
The topside destined for the Valemon field offshore Norway was loaded onto the heavy transport vessel Dockwise Triumph at Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, on 1 June 2014. The 216.75m-long vessel left the Geoje yard on the morning of 15 June…
Kongsberg Maritime provides this video on how its maritime solutions enable staff to control the GDF Suez Neptune LNG carrier. The DNV-classed Neptune, managed by Höegh LNG Fleet Management AS, was built by Samsung Heavy Industries and delivered to GDF Suez 3Q 2009…
Maersk Drilling’s second drillship, Maersk Valiant, has started its voyage to the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) today after being delivered from Samsung Heavy Industries' (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South-Korea. Maersk Valiant (pictured) will…
ConocoPhillips has taken a three-year contract for the ENSCO DS-9 drillship, currently under construction at the Samsung Heavy Industries, Co. Ltd. (SHI) Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The ENSCO DS-9 is a Samsung GF12000 hull design…
Petronas has reached the final investment decision(FID) for its second FLNG facility project, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysia. The FID was approved by the Petronas board on 23 Jan 2014. Subsequently, Petronas has issued a letter of award for the engineering procurement…
Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility floated out of the dry dock at Geoje, South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries yard, where the facility is currently under construction. Upon completion, Prelude FLNG will be the largest-ever floating facility…
Watch as the 488m-long hull of Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility floats out of the dry dock at Geoje, South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries yard, where the facility is currently under construction. Upon completion…
ABB has won two contracts worth a combined $45 million on the Ichthys oil and gas project offshore Western Australia. The firm has been appointed as the main electrical contractor (MEC) for a new floating production, storage and offloading…
Shell's PreludeShell and TSC team up on future LNG projects Shell Gas & Power Developments B.V. (Shell) and the Technip Samsung Consortium (TSC) have signed a heads of agreement to enhance collaboration on the design, engineering, procurement…
FMC Technologies and Edison Chouest Offshore formed a joint venture based in Houston to provide integrated vessel-based subsea services for offshore oil and gas fields globally. The JV will offer equipment intervention, riserless light well intervention…
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