OFFSHORE SPECIALTY FABRICATORS

Orion Marine Wins Caribbean Offshore Mooring Contract

Orion Marine Group, Inc. headquartered in Houston, Texas, announce award of a contract which is worth approximately US$14-million. The contract is for the design and construction of offshore mooring facilities for a liquids terminal in the Caribbean. The project is expected to commence in the 4th quarter and to last approximately 12 months. Orion Marine Group, Inc. provides a broad range of marine construction and specialty services on, over and under the water along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic Seaboard, the West Coast and the Caribbean Basin and acts as a single source turn-key solution for its customers' marine contracting needs. Its heavy civil marine construction services include marine transportation facility construction, marine pipeline construction, marine environmental structures, dredging, and specialty services. Its specialty services include salvage, demolition, diving, surveying, towing and underwater inspection,excavation and repair.  

Superior Fabricators Awarded Cantilever Extensions

Superior Fabricators of Baldwin, La., has been awarded cantilever extensions for two Global Marine Jackup rigs, which are currently under tow into the Gulf of Mexico from West Africa. The extensions will provide for an additional 15 ft. of cantilever reach for Glomar Adriatic IX and Glomar Adriatic X, both of which are LeTourneau 116-C class rigs.

Ron Person Joins Klüber

Klϋber Lubrication, a worldwide manufacturer of specialty lubricants, announced that Ron Person has joined its North American operations as director of business development for oil and gas. In his new role, Person will be responsible for further developing application-specific support and customer service initiatives designed to better position Klüber Lubrication as a specialty lubricant producer in the oil and gas market

Feature: Dutch Treat

By Larry Pearson For many years Houma Fabricators, Houma, La. built passenger boats, offshore boats and other steel hulled vessels much like a dozen other shipyards in the Gulf south. In the mid-90's they built several large gaming boats for Iowa entrepreneur Bob Kehl. If you hadn't stopped by Houma Fabricators for the past two years, today you would not recognize the place. Purchased by Shipyard De Hoop of the Netherlands in 2001

Marjorie Shymske Appointed President of Quest Construction

Quest Specialty Chemicals, a leader in the specialty coatings industry, appoints 'Marj' Shymske president of its subsidiary. With over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and management, with an emphasis on assembling effective teams and successful business expansion, Shymske is an established leader in the building materials industry. Shymske’s substantial experience in both Fortune 500 and private equity owned environments

Marine Inland Fabricators Delivers Truckable Tugs

Marine Inland Fabricators, located in Panama City, Fla, specializes in truckable push boats. The company currently has 21 employees and delivered 26 boats in 2009. So far this year, the company we has built 23 push boats.  Marine Inland Fabricators also builds barges and has built work boats as big as 60 ft by 26 ft by eight ft, two of which are currently working in Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans, La.  We recently filled a seventeen boat order for General Electric to work in the

Quest Announces New CFO

Quest Specialty Chemicals, a company in the specialty coatings industry, announced the appointment of Rick Martin as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Martin has an experience in finance within a number of global industrial businesses, emphasizing financial and internal control activities, investor relations and risk management. Prior to joining Quest, Martin served as Vice President Corporate Controller, Treasurer and Secretary for Hilex Poly Co., LLC

SapuraCrest, Ramunia Awarded Contracts

Two oil and gas players, SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd and Ramunia Holdings Bhd, announced major contracts related to the industry worth $120 million and $24 million respectively. SapuraCrest said its 51%-owned unit Tioman Drilling Co Sdn Bhd had been awarded a contract from Carigali-Triton Operating Co Sdn Bhd (CTOC) for the provision of two drilling units– Teknik Berkat and a new mobile drilling vessel, known as T-10 – to CTOC.

$39m for Waterfront Barrier

Harbor Offshore, Inc.*, Ventura, Calif.; Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc.*, Portsmouth, Va.; GPA Technologies, Inc.*, Ventura, Calif., are being awarded a combined total of $39,958,618 under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price multiple award contracts (N68711-05-D-0017/0018/0019) to exercise option year three for waterfront barrier maintenance/repair worldwide. The work to be performed provides for logistical support, installation, inspection, repair

MarAd Approves Vessel Sale and Transfer

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has approved a vessel sale and transfer under section 9 of the Shipping Act, of 1916, as amended. MarAd has given approval to Dewey Seymore & Associates, of Folsom, California, to sale the deck barge EM1005, to China Harbour - Costain Mexico S. de. R.L .de. C.V., Mexico and transfer of said Vessel to Mexican registry and flag. The deck barge was built by Bollinger Marine Fabricators and has a gross tonnage of 1072.