IHC Merwede has contracts Alcoa to produce the first-ever aluminum alloy fallpipe for a dredge system. Tideway is the IHC customer.

Dockwise has won 12 contracts for heavy marine transport and engineering projects with a combined value of nearly $37 million.

Power engineering group Wärtsilä has signed a long-term service agreement with Eidesvik Offshore to provide maintenance services for the seismic vessel Oceanic Vega.

STX Norway Offshore has contracted to supply Island Offshore with two LNG-powered platform supply vessels.

Petrobras has signed a Letter of Intent with MODEC for the charter and operation of an FPSO at BM-S-9 offshore Brazil in the Santos basin.

STX Norway Offshore reports it has signed contracts to build two icebreaker tugboats for JSC Circle Marine Invest.

TI Africa, owner of the FSO Africa, has signed a new contract to provide Maersk Oil Qatar with FSO services on the Al Shaheen field offshore Qatar.

Sevan Marine ASA and E.ON Ruhrgas UK E&P have agreed to extend a Letter of Intent (LoI) concerning an FPSO for the Huntington field development in the UK North Sea.

OSX Brazil has contracted Keppel Shipyard to modify the FPSO OSX-1, which will work for OGX in Brazil's Campos basin under a 20-year lease.

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is working with Maersk Tankers to developing next-generation liquefied C0₂ carriers, which should be available by 2015.

Sevan Marine has agreed to acquire Centrica Energy Upstream’s 20% equity interest in the FPSO Sevan Hummingbird for $39 million.

NorSkan Offshore has contracted STX Brazil Offshore for two anchor handling tug supply vessels for delivery during 2012-13.

Noble Corp. has signed contracts with STX Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. of South Korea and Huisman Equipment B.V. for construction of an ultra-deepwater dynamically positioned drillship.

Interpetroleum Services has awarded Prosafe a bareboat contract for the accommodation support rig Safe Lancia, operating for Pemex offshore Mexico.

A floating storage and offloading vessel will shortly leave the Yulian shipyard in China for the Afren-operated Ebok field development off southeast Nigeria.

The Craig Group has ordered four new emergency response and rescue vessels from Balenciaga Shipyard.

Craig Group is adding four new emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRVs) to the fleet operated by its North Star Shipping subsidiary.

Flex LNG has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saipem for a floating liquefaction project offshore Australia.

Vessels group Renaissance Services has agreed on a syndicated term loan facility of Rial 19.25 million ($ 50 million).

Petrobras has awarded Acergy a four-year renewal of its contract for the installation vessel Acergy Condor.