Samsung Heavy Develops LNG Vessel Laser High-speed Welding Robot

Credit: Samsung Heavy Industries

Samsung Heavy develops a laser high-speed welding robot for LNG vessels, mentions a Kedglobal news source.

Production of LNG carriers

It’s five times faster than the previous one and is expected to increase the efficiency of building production of LNG carriers.

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries said on Thursday that it has developed the maritime sector’s first laser high-speed welding robot, aimed at substantially enhancing the productivity of constructing...

https://mfame.guru/samsung-heavy-develops-lng-vessel-laser-high-speed-welding-robot/

“Smartizing” shipping: Samsung Heavy Industries develops a chatbot

South Korean shipbuilding company Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has developed SBOT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot, and applied it to a ship design, stepping up efforts to strengthen its digitalisation.

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https://www.offshore-energy.biz/smartizing-shipping-samsung-heavy-industries-develops-a-chatbot/

Samsung Heavy Develops Korea’s First Carbon Capture Technology Onboard LNG Vessels

Classification ceremony for ship carbon capture technology Center) Daeheon Kim, Head of Research Division at KR

Samsung Heavy Industries and Panasia, a domestic eco-friendly facility company, succeeded in developing a ‘carbon capture system’ onboard, applicable to LNG-fueled ships, and became the first in Korea to receive approval in principle from KR, a Korean classification society.

This certification technology is an eco-friendly technology that uses an amine-based liquid absorbent to separate and recover carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas of LNG that is burned in a ship engine or generator.

Although...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/samsung-heavy-develops-koreas-first-carbon-capture-technology-onboard-lng-vessels/

Samsung Heavy Industries Inks $245 Million Deal To Resell Drillship To Transocean

Drill ship

Samsung Heavy Industries Co. has signed a deal worth US$245 million with a European firm to sell the drillship it could not deliver following a botched deal. The drillship that was sold off to the European company is one of two drillships that offshore driller Transocean Ltd. had relinquished without a reason in 2019 September.

The order for two drillships was placed by Ocean Rig UDW Inc. in consecutive years – 2013 and 2014. In 2018, the company was acquired by Transocean. In June, Samsung...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/samsung-heavy-industries-inks-245-million-deal-to-resell-drillship-to-transocean/

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