The main installation vessel are the Jumbo Javelin and the Fairplayer. Equipped with two 900 t Huisman mast cranes, fitted with a Konsgberg dynamic positioning system (DP2) and with an enormous deck and large storage capacity, they are versatile installation tools.

Normand Ranger for Solstad Offshore will be named Saturday afternoon at 3:00 p.m at the quayside at Ulstein Verft. Completion of the anchor handling vessel has been a challenging task, but the shipyard has put in its best expertise and will deliver the project to the agreed terms within a short time.

Transocean Ltd.’s semi-submersible oil rig Deep Horizon sank Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, after an explosion followed by a fire left 11 crew members missing.

West Orion is a sixth generation, high specification, ultra-deepwater, state of the art semi-submersible drilling unit. The rig has a high load carrying capacity, an efficient drilling floor layout with improved safety and working environment measures. West Orion is designed with a dynamic positioning system and a water depth capacity up to 3,000 meters.

Houston–based Pride International Inc. has dedicated the first of its four new deepwater drillships under construction by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea, the Deep Ocean Ascension. The rig will be mobilized to the US Gulf of Mexico where it is expected to begin operations in the third quarter under a five–year contract with BP.