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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ABS is to class the offshore wind feedering fleet of two tugs and two barges that Edison Chouest Offshore has ordered to support Maersk Supply Services innovative wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV). As we reported earlier, the WTIV feeder solution aims to open access to a greater number of U.S. ports logistically.
Chouest and Maersk Supply partner up on U.S. offshore wind installation
Using U.S.-built Jones Act compliant tugs and barges to ferry turbine components, Maersk Supply Service’s...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/chouest-wtiv-feeders-to-be-built-to-abs-class/
America’s offshore wind energy supply chain marked a major milestone Saturday, when ECO Edison, the first-ever American-built, owned, and crewed offshore wind service operations vessel (SOV), was christened in the Port of New Orleans.
U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R.-La.) and Rep. Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D.-La.) joined senior executives from Ørsted and Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) at events to celebrate the completion of the SOV, that included its official christening by Jennifer...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/video-eco-edison-christened-in-new-orleans/
The Cut Off, La., headquartered Chouest group has acquired Aberdeen, Scotland, headquartered ROVOP, a leading remotely operated vehicle (ROV) company that was previously a portfolio company of Bluewater Private Equity. With the acquisition, Chouest, alongside its subsea service company, C-Innovation, will now control a fleet of over 100 ROVs and 6 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
Bringing ROVOP under the Chouest umbrella not only expands Chouest’s service offerings but also provides ROVOP...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/chouest-expands-its-subsea-capabilities-with-rovop-acquisition/
RMS Titanic Inc., the company that holds the salvage rights to the RMS Titanic wreck, has selected Edison Chouest Offshore associate C-Innovation to support its 2024 imaging and research expedition. Scheduled for May, the new Titanic expedition will utilize the latest imaging technology and ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) to capture detailed high-resolution images of Titanic, its wreck site, and debris field.
C-Innovation will bring its deep sea operations, imaging equipment, and expertise to...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/c-innovation-selected-to-support-new-titanic-expedition/
Houston-headquartered advanced subsea solutions specialist C-Innovation (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has promoted Rebecca Dufour to commercial manager.
Rebecca Dufour joined C-I in 2021 as proposal manager and brought with her more than 20 years of tendering and commercial experience in the offshore oil and gas industry. In her new role as commercial manager, Dufour will be responsible for providing commercial support throughout the project...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/c-innovation-names-rebecca-dufour-commercial-manager/
Merry Christmas! On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me… twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a-leaping and so on, all the way back to that partridge in a pear tree from day one of the old festive carol. But not here, as, for the fourth year in a […]
Houston-headquartered advanced subsea solutions specialist C-Innovation (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has welcomed back Lucas Cribley, who earlier in his career was one of the company’s first employees, as its new business development manager.
During his more than 20-year career, Cribley worked as the program manager and first employee in a joint venture start-up between ECO and FMC Technologies, in which he secured and managed major inspection,...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/c-innovation-names-lucas-cribley-business-development-manager/
ABS is working with leading OSV operator Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) on its decarbonization journey by providing greenhouse gas inventory and sustainability reporting services.
ABS specialists have been working with the ECO team since 2022 providing a gap analysis for the ECO Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework.
This led to a full sustainability reporting project in 2023, where ABS supplied technical guidance on the GRI...
https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/abs-supports-eco-on-ghg-and-esg-reporting/
A French operator takes delivery of a new cable-lay vessel while a Singaporean yard launches the first in a series of three crewboats destined for the Middle East. Construction starts on a new compact crewboat for deployment at US offshore wind farms. Finally, a Norwegian joint venture places an order for a new unmanned craft […]
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