Focus on Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
OFFSHORE WEEK
The lineup of vessel reviews as part of this month’s focus on the offshore industry includes crewboats, a standby vessel, and a general support workboat. One of the crewboats uses the ever-familiar catamaran hull designs while the other is a wave-piercing monohull with a significant carrying capacity and an advanced transfer system suitable for use under even challenging offshore conditions.
OSVs • Exploration • Extraction • Processing • Construction • Storage • Operations • Renewables
Meanwhile, an operator in the UK recently expanded its fleet of vessels with the acquisition of a Dutch-designed newbuild optimised for renewables support duties off the south-west English coast.
The last vessel to be reviewed is a Chinese-built standby vessel for a Scotland-based operator. It is the final one in a series of three that are also designed for other roles including dry bulk transport, oil recovery, firefighting, and rescue towing.
Vessel Reviews:
- Cromarty Sentinel – Chinese-built standby vessel for Scotland’s Sentinel Marine
- USV Inanibus – UK-designed unmanned vessel to conduct windfarm site surveys
- TSM Windcat 52 – New crewboat to support France’s Saint-Brieuc wind farm
- HST Hazel – Welsh operator adds renewables support workboat to fleet
- Argus – Versatile hybrid survey and inspection USV for Norway’s Argeo
- Work-class ROVs to perform oilfield IMR duties in Brazil
- Aqua Helix – Dutch-designed proof-of-concept crewboat with 122-passenger capacity
Features and Opinion:
– “One per cent of something with value is a lot better than thirty per cent of a company worth nothing.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
– “Rising profits in the offshore sector this year will have very little to do with the genius of the management teams involved, and everything to do with the market.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
News and Gear:
- New Dutch-designed crane vessel to support windfarm construction
- Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – June 24, 2022
- Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Orders and Deliveries Roundup – June 23, 2022
- Partnership to develop heavy transport vessel to support offshore wind farms
- Florida shipbuilder acquired by new owners
- Keel laid for Seaway 7’s first turbine installation vessel
- UK design firm launches new OSV range
- Bourbon, IWS Fleet to jointly serve French offshore renewables market
- Marine projects joint venture formed in Abu Dhabi
- Work Boat World Offshore Projects Roundup – June 10, 2022
- Singaporean builder launches new crewboat series
- Work Boat World Offshore Vessel Orders and Deliveries Roundup – June 6, 2022
Recent Important Features:
– “All that has happened is that yards slowed down work and kept nearly finished vessels in suspended animation, rather than deliver them into a depressed market with no buyers.”
– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations
Call for content!
Any news or views about the global offshore industry? Send it through to [email protected] ASAP (between now and June 24), so we can add it to this current edition of Offshore Week!
We are after:
- Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
- Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the offshore vessel sector
- Interviews – Owners, operators, designers, builders etc.
- Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the offshore world? (example here)
- Other – Any other relevant news
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