A new crewboat has been delivered to a US operator while a Dutch firm places a rebuilt anchor handler in service. A UK builder launches a catamaran crewboat ordered by a repeat customer. Orders include those for six crewboats, a daughtercraft, and a floating gas processing unit. Workboat enters service with Netherlands’ Emar Offshore Services […]
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There was only one story in offshore this week, the news that Greek shipowner Evangelos Marinakis has doubled down on this bet on the platform supply vessel (PSV) market by making the single biggest order in the entire segment in the last decade. His Capital Offshore has placed an order for four firm diesel-electric, DP2, […]
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Danish marine services provider Saga Shipping has taken delivery of a new workboat capable of supply, towing, and anchor handling duties under a broad range of weather conditions in both harbour and deeper offshore waters. Built locally by Hvide Sande Shipyard (HSS) to a design by OSK-ShipTech,...
Netherlands-based Multraship Towage and Salvage christened its newest ASD tug in a ceremony in Terneuzen on Thursday, May 30. Multratug 35 is the first in a series of two tugs ordered by Multraship in June 2023 to perform deep-sea towage and salvage. The newbuild has a length of 32 metres and IMO...
The order book for the wind sector just continues getting larger and larger, even as companies continue not to make much money. Wind is the Augustus Gloop segment of offshore, gorged on investment, like the character in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but liable to fall into a...
“They come over here, taking our jobs and stealing our women,” is a familiar refrain against foreigners all around the world, as likely to be uttered from Dublin to Durban, from Dusseldorf to Des Moines, and from Denpasar to Dubai (well, probably not the second part in the UAE, but we won’t dwell...
Irish singer-songwriter Hozier recently managed to top the singles charts in Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom with the indie hit “Too Sweet”, which also peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. The memorable chorus, “I take my whiskey neat, my coffee black and my bed at...
Norway’s DOF Group has been awarded a contract by Altera Infrastructure to install an FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading unit) and one FSO (floating storage unit) for the phase 2 development of the Baleine field in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, which is operated by Eni with Petroci Holding as partner.
Altera was awarded a contract last October that will see the cylindrical shaped FPSO Voyageur Spirit deployed to the Baleine field with the shuttle tanker Nordic Brasilia being...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/dof-books-baleine-field-fpso-and-fso-installation-contract/
Norway’s DOF Group closed out last week by announcing two contracts on February 2. It described one as “substantial” and the other as “large.”
DOF Group defines a substantial contract as one with a contract with value between NOK 250 million to NOK 500 million (about $24 million to $47 million) and a large contract as one with with a value between NOK 500 million to NOK 1 billion.
The substantial contract is with an international oil company for the PSV Skandi Kvitsøy. The vessel will work in...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/dof-group-books-two-significant-contracts/
Following divestiture of its PSV fleet to Tidewater, Skudeneshavn, Norway, based Solstad Offshore ASA is in the midst of a refinancing that you can read all about here.
Meantime, the company reported today that two of its vessels have been awarded contracts in Australia.
The CSV Normand Australis has been contracted by a subsea contractor for a minimum of 150-days firm, with options to extend thereafter. The contract will commence during fourth quarter 2023.
Additionally, says Solstad Offshore,...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/solstad-books-new-contracts-in-australia/