A Brazilian operator has taken delivery of a locally built PSV while a new floating LNG facility is slated for deployment off Mozambique. Construction continues on a cable laying vessel for a Malaysian owner. Newly ordered vessels include PSVs for a UK customer and a fast crewboat to be operated in the Arabian Sea.
UK-based Union Vega Offshore has ordered two battery-hybrid platform supply vessels (PSVs) from China's Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding, with options for an additional four units.
The vessels will be designed by Norwegian naval architecture firm Breeze Ship Design. Delivery of the first PSV is scheduled for 2028.
Each PSV will have a length of 84 metres, a deck area of 900 square metres, a moonpool, and accommodation for up to 44 personnel. The vessels will also be prepared for the future installation of a 50-tonne active heave-compensated crane.
Breeze said the design can serve conventional platform supply needs and is also suited to light construction and operations supporting geophysical and seismic work.
Italian energy firm Eni will start drilling up to six development wells from November that will feed gas to its new Coral Norte floating liquefied natural gas platform offshore Mozambique, a senior executive told Reuters on Thursday.
The project is on track to start production by 2028, doubling the company's output to around seven million tonnes per annum, Mario Bello, Eni's Head of sub-Saharan Africa said on the sidelines of an energy conference in Cape Town.
"Mozambique actually is a premium gas source. I think geographically it's just perfectly located to fit the premium LNG market that is in the Far East without having a critical transit route," he said in reference to the Iran war that has choked off major gas and oil shipping routes.
Bello said Eni, which previously said it was considering a third FLNG offshore Mozambique due to the country's abundant gas resources in the Rovuma Basin, was currently in the early pre-front-end engineering and design stage on the project.
Saudi Arabia's Zamil Offshore has ordered a fourth 60-metre fast crewboat from Singaporean shipbuilder Lita Ocean.
Construction is underway, and the monohull vessel is scheduled to enter service in 2027. She will join three earlier vessels moving personnel, cargo, and equipment for heavy maintenance for Saudi Aramco's operations in the Arabian Sea.
The ABS-classed, DP2-certified vessel will have a maximum speed of 36 knots. Four MTU 16V4000 diesel engines will drive Hamilton HT810 waterjets through ZF gearboxes.
Two of the main engines will drive FFS firefighting pumps supplying 1,200m³/hour monitors, giving the vessel FiFi1 capability.
Brazilian operator Starnav Serviços Marítimos' new platform supply vessel (PSV) Starnav Elektra has been delivered ahead of entering a long-term charter with state-owned energy company Petrobras.
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), which also classed the vessel, described her as the first hybrid PSV designed and constructed in Brazil.
The 5,500DWT vessel was built by Detroit Brasil at its shipyard in Itajaí, Santa Catarina. She will support offshore logistics in Brazilian waters.
ABS said her 1,322kWh lithium iron phosphate battery system was sized to meet the operator's DP2 requirements, including holding position on battery power for up to 20 minutes following an engine failure.
Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Verft has laid the keel for the first of two cable laying vessels (CLVs) it is building for Malaysia-based OMS Group.
The keel of CS Resilience was laid during a ceremony at Crist shipyard in Gdynia, Poland, Ulstein said on Tuesday, October 13. The ceremony marked the start of hull assembly and followed the cutting of the first steel for the vessel at Crist in July.
The CLV's hull will later be transported to Norway for completion. Ulstein Verft is managing the project and is responsible for construction follow-up, system integration, outfitting, commissioning and delivery.
Both vessels utilise an existing Ulstein design and are intended to install and maintain subsea telecommunications cables.
The OMS Group signed contracts for the pair on December 23, 2025, and both are scheduled to enter service in 2028.