{"id":2728,"date":"2009-12-30T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2009\/12\/30\/stx-awarded-two-contracts-with-island-offshore\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:21:19","slug":"stx-awarded-two-contracts-with-island-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/stx-awarded-two-contracts-with-island-offshore\/","title":{"rendered":"STX awarded two contracts with Island Offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STX Europe has entered into new contracts with Norwegian-based Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Offshore for the building of two 4,000 dwt platform supply vessels.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels\u2019 93 m long hulls will be built at STX\u2019s Romanian shipyard for outfitting at STX Europe in Brevik <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> are based on the same design as<\/p>\n<p> <i>Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Comm<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>er<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> <i>Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Chieftain <\/i>delivered from STX Europe earlier this year. The vessels are scheduled for delivery in Q4 2011 <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Q1 2012. The total value of the contracts amounts to approximately NOK 800 million.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels are of Rolls-Royce UT 776 CD design, <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> will be numbers five <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> six in this series delivered from STX Europe to Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Reite, president of STX Europe&#8217;s Offshore &amp; Specialized Vessels business area, says: &#8220;We have been awarded a total of 29 new building contracts with Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Offshore. We appreciate the close cooperation with Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Offshore, which is an innovative customer both in upturns <\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> downturns in the offshore market. We look forward to continuing the good cooperation with the Isl<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p> Offshore&#8217;s team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STX Europe has entered into new contracts with Norwegian-based Island Offshore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}