With a growing interest in Arctic shipping and offshore exploration in the far north, Norwegian government and industry officials are calling for regulation of activities.

Discussing the future of the offshore sector at NorShipping's Agenda Offshore conference in Oslo this morning, a common theme was that of increasing automation and remote operation of vessels.

International competition among OSV design companies has “increased dramatically” in recent years, according to Ulstein Group, which yesterday scooped the ‘Ship of the Year 2013’ award for best Norwegian-built vessel announced at Nor-Shipping by...

Norway's Statoil has gone to South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to build two harsh environment drilling rigs.

Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) won an order worth $800m to construct a semi-submersible drilling rig for Caspian Drilling, a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar).

Malaysia's TH Heavy Engineering (THHE) is stepping up into the big leagues to bid for a risk service contract (RSC) valued at $500m with a partner, which they declined to name and for which the partnership structure has not been finalised.

Singapore-based Ezra Holdings has sold its stake in fellow Singapore offshore firm Ezion Holdings in a move to rationalise its assets.

Atlantic Navigation has obtained a $15m loan facility from Maybank Singapore to partially refinance the acquisition and modification of a jack-up accommodation barge.

Sembcorp Marine (SembMarine) has won a $220.5m jack-up rig contract, for BOT Lease Company.

Malaysian Bulk Carriers suffered from the poor economic conditions in the first quarter, turning to an operating loss of MYR3.4m ($1.1m) from a MYR19.7m profit in the first quarter of 2012 as a MYR9.9m pre-tax loss due to poor charter rates in the...