Edison Chouest Offshore Archives

March 9, 2022

Louisiana yard launches Viking’s future Mississippi River cruise ship

Written by Baird Maritime on March 9, 2022. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Passenger Vessels, Cruise.

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 ..

August 19, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – August 19, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on August 19, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore Decommissioning, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore World, Subsea Surveying.

A massive survey project has been completed by a UK oil and gas company in Southeast Asia while new projects in the pipeline include well intervention, IRM, and decommiss ..

February 25, 2021

FEATURE | AUVs play key role in new Antarctic food web research

Written by Baird Maritime on February 25, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Marine Projects, Marine Research and Training, Unmanned Craft (Non-Naval), Work Boat World Features.

Researchers at the University of Delaware (UD) are currently studying to identify whether food resources for various animal species found in West Antarctica are being tra ..

March 7, 2022

Construction starts on Edison Chouest Offshore’s newest windfarm SOV

Written by Baird Maritime on March 7, 2022. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Offshore Accommodation, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind.

Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) has confirmed that construction has started on the first Jones Act-compliant windfarm service operations vessel (SOV). The vessel, which wil ..

August 16, 2021

COLUMN | More offshore deals in Brazil: Oceanpact vs Grupo CBO [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on August 16, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Crew Transfer, Offshore Drilling & Extraction, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Processing & Storage, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Subsea Surveying, Work Boat World Features.

Last week we looked here at how the higher oil price, the growth of offshore wind energy, and abundant funds have driven deal-making in offshore in the usually quiet summ ..

February 12, 2021

Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – February 12, 2021

Written by Baird Maritime on February 12, 2021. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Crew Transfer, Offshore Construction, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Well Intervention.

With the exciting news from earlier this week about South Korea unveiling plans to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm, attention is once again focused on ..

January 13, 2022

Hornbeck to acquire 10 OSVs from Edison Chouest affiliates

Written by Baird Maritime on January 13, 2022. Posted in Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Platform Supply.

Hornbeck Offshore Services has entered into definitive vessel purchase agreements with certain affiliates of Edison Chouest Offshore to acquire a total of ten high-spec n ..

March 22, 2021

COLUMN | The wind bubble moves to service operation vessels

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on March 22, 2021. Posted in Anchor Handling, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Standby, Rescue & Emergency Services, Work Boat World Features.

Speculative capital is now investing in high specification, purpose-built ships to support wind farms that have not even yet been installed. We have previously covered ho ..

October 9, 2020

COLUMN | Tidewater and Edison Chouest: Regina monologue illustrates differences [Offshore Accounts]

Written by Hieronymus Bosch on October 9, 2020. Posted in Anchor Handling, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Offshore, Crew Transfer, Offshore Maintenance, Offshore Wind, Offshore World, Platform Supply, Work Boat World Features.

In July 2020, Regina Mayor, Global and US Head of Energy with KPMG recorded an interview with Quintin Kneen, President, CEO, and Director of Tidewater, which is available ..