Training Allows Us to Trust That We Can Handle Life’s Challenges, at GE’s Energy Management Services Business We Remind You That You Don’t Have to Face Them Alone

GE provides training for Dynamic Positioning to maximize efficiency. (Photos: GE Power Conversion: GEPCPR200)BUSAN—October 24, 2013—Training allows us to trust that we can handle life’s challenges. At GE’s Energy Management Services business (NYSE: GE), we remind you that you don’t have to face them alone. This is why GE’s Energy Management Services business is extending the scope of its marine services training centers at key locations around the world. The training centers provide operator and maintenance training to GE customers and its own field service engineers for its Dynamic Positioning (DP) products, vessel automation systems, MV7000 and MV3000 variable frequency drives and other innovative offerings.

GE Global Offshore and Marine to Power, Propel and Position Innovative Marine Solutions at Kormarine 2013

BUSAN - October 23, 2013 - GE's (NYSE: GE) Global Offshore and Marine business powers and propels ships, keeping them in position at the touch of button. The Korean naval, offshore and merchant, shipbuilding industry, the largest and most important in the world, has long since recognized the benefit that GE's experience and technology can deliver—partnering together for 30 years. That is why Kormarine 2013 is one of the key events where GE will showcase its latest advancements in diesel engines, gas turbines and dynamic positioning solutions, all designed to deliver reliability, fuel efficiency, lower maintenance and life cycle costs.

Asian Steel Maker Turns to GE's Energy Management Services to Upgrade Automation and Drives with Reduced Downtime

PARIS - October 17, 2013 - In a strategic business decision, POSCO-Thainox announced last year an ambitious business plan to increase annual capacity for cold-rolled stainless steel. Over the next four years, they will grow production from 200,000 tons to 300,000 tons. To meet existing demands and achieve their long-term goals, POSCO will need to upgrade their facilities with the smallest amount of interruption to their current production lines.

GE Power Conversion to Position Hornbeck’s Subsea Construction Vessels with Advanced DP Technology

GE Power Conversion will equip four MPSV with the latest DP technology for Hornbeck Offshore.
(Photo: GE Power Conversion: GEPCPR195)PARIS - October 14, 2013 - Imagine holding a 100-meter long, subsea construction vessel in position as it lowers with its 250-ton crane, heavy subsea modules to the seabed. GE’s Power Conversion (NYSE: GE) takes the guess work out of complex dynamic positioning (DP) operations with its advanced human-machine interface (HMI) and returns ship control to the mariner, so skilled DP operators can once again focus on the task of ship handling. When the system is operating in its new “Energy Efficiency” mode, it offers the owner/operator reduced fuel consumption with the associated reduction in engine emissions continuing with GE’s global mission for a greener environment.

Energy-Efficient Dynamic Positioning Mode for Ships from GE Power Conversion Chosen for IET Innovation Awards Finals

GE Power Conversion's Energy Efficient Dynamic Positioning Mode is selected as a finalist for the IET Innovation Award 2013.PARIS - October 8, 2013 - New software from GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) that enables its Dynamic Positioning (DP) systems to save significant amounts of fuel and put less wear and tear on vessel propulsion equipment is on the shortlist to win a prestigious Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award this year.

GE Power Conversion to Power and Propel India's First Diesel-Electric Ship with Medium-Voltage Equipment

CHENNAI, INDIA - October 3, 2013 - India continues to grow as a global center of technological excellence, accounting for 10 percent of research and development and home to five of the top 10 science and technology schools in Asia. Govt of India, having a network of more than 50 laboratories deeply engaged in developing a range of technologies from electronic and computer sciences, through life sciences and materials, to marine research and development, will invest in a new scientific research platform vessel to be built by Bharati Shipyard, based in Mumbai.

Watchful Experts at Your Side, GE's Power Conversion Business Can't Control the Weather but Allows the Mariner to Control the Ship

GE’s DP system – enhancing situation awareness and rebalancing attention from system management to true seamanship. (Photo: GE Power Conversion: GEPCPR204)PARIS-September 18, 2013-As much as we hate to admit it, success is based on how well we adapt to situations we simply can't control. That's why, when it comes to holding a drillship on-site, as winds whip the sea and the underwater currents into a frenzy, oil companies and their contractors turn to GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE). It's what we do.

GE Power Conversion's Proven Technology and Constant Innovation Make Them Once More Maran Gas's Partner of Choice for Propelling the LNG Transport Industry

Woodside Rogers, equipped with a GE electrical induction-based propulsion solution can be powered by tri-fuel engines that run either on natural gas, marine diesel gas or heavy fuel oil. (Photos: GE Power Conversion: GEPCPR181)PARIS - September 10, 2013 - Induction-based electric propulsion motor technology from GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) will be used to power four new LNG carriers that Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries will build for Maran Gas Maritime, the gas shipping unit of the Angelicoussis Shipping Group. Contracts for the propulsion systems were signed in late May. Hyundai Heavy Industries will deliver the vessels over a 15-month period beginning in July 2015.

GE Power Conversion Experts Energize Your Potential at Kormarine 2013

PARIS - September 9, 2013 - High waves splash against the ship as the wind whistles around you, and lightening pierces the sky only to be followed by the hot, burning sun and days of dry heat on a quiet ocean. These are the just some of the conditions a mariner faces. Therefore, it is important that the ship's crew can rely on the technology of the ship.

Afraid of the Dark? Let GE Help You Keep the Power On

PARIS - September 4, 2013 - How many of us keep a flashlight in the nightstand or a set of matches and candles just in case? Rather than face what goes bump in the night, we reach for something to provide light and power. But, what if you are thousands of kilometers out at sea on a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit? Each clap of thunder amplified, echoing, each flash of lightening illuminating the line where the dark sea and sky become one, and there are no candles and matches, no flashlight that will keep the power going. Weighing in at 40,000 tons and 200 meters long, there is no good time for a blackout on a FPSO.

GE Power Conversion Shows the Marine Industry Overall Efficiency and Effectiveness by Equipping Platform Supply Vessels with Dynamic Positioning and Vessel Automation Technology

The next generation of Platform Supply Vessels equipped with GE Power Conversion's dynamic positioning and vessel automation technologies.
(Photo: GE Power Conversion: GEPCPR192, © Mariane Martins Nass)PARIS - August 22, 2013 - It's a powerful proposal. Keeping a 90-meter, 4,500-deadweight capacity platform supply vessel (PSV) stationary only a few meters from an oil and gas platform, as it transfers fluids, equipment and personnel in challenging weather conditions, is as much about power as it is about precision.

GE Power Conversion to provide the technology and innovation to help Angang Steel operate more efficiently

PARIS - July 11, 2013 - In a move that promises to improve efficiency and reliability while lowering emissions and saving money for the Angang Steel plant, GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) is proud to announce that for the first time it will be installing motors that will help CITIC Heavy Industries Company Ltd. operate its Angang Steel grinding mill facility, located near Anshan, China, more competitively.

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