Synergy Group, one of the world’s leading ship managers, has successfully converted a 1992-built, 126,000 cubic meters capacity Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier into a Floating Storage Unit (FSU).
The FSU, which has a projected lifespan of 15 years, was delivered to its owner last week. Singapore-headquartered Synergy will manage, maintain and operate the FSU on an ongoing basis. It will be deployed in Myanmar where it will be manned by a Synergy crew of 25 seafarers.
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With COVID-19 severely disrupting traditional manned surveys in the marine and offshore industry, Bureau Veritas (BV) in Singapore, in collaboration with Nokia and Sembcorp Marine, has successfully completed remote surveys that pave the way for establishing a new class procedure for the remote inspection of vessels under construction.
Utilising digital technology, the new solutions enable remote surveys to be performed at multiple locations, with feedback transmitted to a single monitoring...
Bribery scandals in Brazil and Iraq connected with SBM Offshore claimed more scalps this month. We previously covered here how SBM’s former CEO Tony Mace had been ..
UK-based Energean Oil and Gas has confirmed that construction has resumed on the floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Energean Power at the Singapore ..
Energean has informed that work restarted on the Energean Power FPSO in the Admiralty Yard, Singapore, on 2 June 2020 and the subsea installation campaign offshore Israel is progressing as…
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s offshore rig builder Sembcorp Marine has entered into a revolving facility agreement for up to $500 million with Standard Chartered Bank. The post…
Yard workforce employed by Singapore’s offshore builder Sembcorp Marine has been reduced from 20,000 to only 850 workers following movement restriction measures implemented due to the coronavirus…
Extensive ABB electric propulsion and power distribution package for Sembcorp Marine opens new era for higher efficiency and lower emission tug operations in Singapore and beyond.
ABB’s electric propulsion, power, energy storage, control and automation technology will be at the heart of the first tug in South Asia capable of switching between low emission liquefied natural gas (LNG) engines and zero-emission battery power. The tug, which will operate in Singapore harbor, has been ordered by...
The world’s largest semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir will arrive in the Port of Rotterdam for the first time on Saturday, March 21. Sembcorp Marine, a Singaporean ship and offshore builder, completed the construction of Heerema’s Sleipnir in July 2019. Since then, the vessel has been busy across the globe.
Named after the Norse God Odin’s eight-legged stallion, the vessel stands at 220 meters long, 102 meters wide, can accommodate 400 employees, and weighs 119,000 tons. As equally...
Sembcorp Marine wishes to update that it has come to the Company’s attention on 1 February 2020, the Ministério Público Federal in Brazil (“MPF”) have filed charges against Mr Guilherme Esteves de Jesus (“GDJ”) for money laundering and ex-employee Mr Martin Cheah Kok Choon (“Martin Cheah”) for money laundering and corruption in connection with certain drilling rig construction contracts entered into by subsidiaries of the Company with Sete Brasil in 2012.
Martin Cheah is the former President of...