C-Innovation names Rebecca Dufour commercial manager

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...

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COLUMN | The Twelve Days of Christmas 2023, final edition: ten spot anchor handlers; eleven foreign vessels for Hornbeck Offshore, and the new twelve labours of Hercules Supply in China [Offshore Accounts]

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 […]

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C-Innovation names Lucas Cribley business development manager

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,...

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ABS supports ECO on GHG and ESG reporting

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...

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Excessive speed seen in expensive ASD tug grounding

ASD tug grounding

Excessive speed during a bow-to-bow harbor-assist maneuver led to the grounding of the ASD tugboat CC Portland in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel last year, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.

“Excessive speed” seen in expensive tugboat collision with containership

It is the second marine casualty investigated by the NTSB in 2022 caused by excessive speed in azimuthing stern drive, or ASD, tugboats while in the center lead forward position. The NTSB continues to encourage...

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Offshore Vessel News Roundup | August 17 – French cable-layer, Norwegian unmanned craft order plus US and Qatari crewboat construction

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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COLUMN | Quick updates: Maersk Supply Service sold; The Metals Company borrows from Allseas as seabed mining negotiations get tense; Cadeler and Eneti report; Scottish Ferries report reveals ̶g̶r̶o̶s̶s̶ ̶n̶e̶g̶l̶i̶g̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ significant failings [Offshore Accounts]

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Is USCG getting serious about buying Chouest icebreaker?

With the U.S. Coast Guard’s single active heavy polar icebreaker, Polar Star, reaching the end of its useful service life there have long been proposals floating around that the Coast Guard acquire an interim vessel until the first of its new Polar Security cutters enter service. The most frequently mentioned candidate vessel has been Edison Chouest Offshore’s M/V Aiviq. The Coast Guard’s FY2023 budget request indicates that this idea is now under very active consideration/

While the procurement...

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C-Innovation celebrates 15-year anniversary

Houston headquartered C-Innovation LLC (C-I) has marked its 15-year anniversary of providing its customers with advanced remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems and industry-leading ROV services.

Since Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) affiliated C-I was founded in 2007, it has grown into the largest owner and operator of Schilling Robotics ROV systems in the world, with a fleet of 57 work class ROV systems.

In addition to ROV services, C-I has now expanded into providing AUV, offshore survey,...

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Louisiana yard launches Viking’s future Mississippi River cruise ship

Edison Chouest Offshore’s LaShip shipyard in Houma, Louisiana, has launched a new river cruise ship that will be operated by Viking Cruises on the Lower and Upper M ..

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