Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has received the Final Approval status from the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) for its Wärtsilä AQUARIUS® EC Ballast Water Management System. The approval was granted at the MEPC’s 65th session held at the IMO headquarters in London on 13th May 2013. [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, will supply a comprehensive, fully integrated power, propulsion and positioning system for a DP3 Dynamically Positioned offshore accommodation rig being built in China. The contract was signed in January with Cosco (Qidong) Offshore Co. Ltd, the yard building the vessel for Singapore based Axis Offshore. The [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, is to supply inert gas systems for a Floating Storage Unit (FSU) to be located on Norway’s Heidrun offshore oil and gas field, and for two shuttle tankers that will support the FSU. The FSU is owned by Statoil, the Norwegian state owned energy company, and [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has received an order to supply a comprehensive solutions package for a series Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Carriers being built for Danish operator Evergas, a leading transporter of petrochemical gases and natural gas liquids. The ships are being built at the Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering (SOE) [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has obtained certification of emission standard compliance from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines. It will enable Wärtsilä to strongly enter the American market with marine engine technology that offers operators and owners the option of using either diesel [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been awarded a major contract to design a series of four multi-purpose platform support vessels (MPSVs) for Armada Offshore MPSV Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bumi Armada Berhad, a Malaysian-based international offshore oilfield services provider and also the largest owner and operator of offshore support [...]
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Wartsila has introduced a unique product, GasReformer, which uses steam reforming technology to convert associated gas to a quality that can be used as fuel in Wartsila’s range of gas fuelled engines. The Wartsila GasReformer is yet another example of the company developing highly efficient products and demonstrating integration capabilities which ensure environmentally and economically [...]
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Wärtsilä will set up a new fully-owned manufacturing facility in Brazil to meet the increasing market demand, particularly in the offshore market. Wärtsilä’s investment in the new facilities is approximately EUR 20 million. The manufacturing premises will be based on a multi-product factory concept for the assembly and testing of Wärtsilä generating sets and propulsion [...]
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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has signed a five year maintenance agreement with Finnish ship owner, Viking Line. The agreement, which became effective from March 1, is for maintaining and servicing the recently launched ‘Viking Grace’, the largest passenger ferry ever to operate on liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel. The agreement [...]
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Wärtsilä has won a valuable order to supply a series of pumps to be installed on a new floating storage unit (FSU). The FSU is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for Statoil, the Norway based international energy company. When completed, it will be located on the Heidrun oil and gas field [...]
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