OFFShORE These four new vessels will expand HOS’s newbuild program, which was announced in November 2011, from 16 vessels to a total of 20 U.S.-flagged HOSMAX class DP-2 new generation offshore supply vessels. HOS has until February 2013 to exercise its new options. The new vessels at Eastern Shipbuilding are being built to the STX SV310 design provided by STX Marine US. STX Marine, with offices in Vancouver, Canada, and Houston, has emerged as the premier designer in North America for the offshore sector, with boats currently building or recently delivered for Brazil’s Boldini S.A., Harvey Gulf International Marine and Hornbeck Offshore Services. The HOSMAX DP-2 vessels will be built to USCG Subchapter L and SOLAS and classed by ABS. All of the HOSMAX vessels under contract are USCG, SOLAS, ABS Classed A1, Offshore Support Vessel Ocean Service, Loadline, AMS, ACCU, Circle E, with additional ABS Class notations UWILD, ENVIRO, DPS-2 and FFV-1. The HOSMAX310 (or STX SV310) will have an impressive capacity of 21,509
barrels of liquid mud, 14,347 cu.ft. of drybulk mud, 2,212 barrels of methanol and 62,538 gals. of potable water. RETIREMENTS TO EXCEED ADDITIONS Based on its own data, as well as information from ODS-Petrodata, Tidewater Inc., New Orleans, LA, expects retirements in the world OSV fleet to exceed new additions. Tidewater estimates that 467 vessels or 17 percent of the current worldwide fleet of AHTSs and PSVs is at least 30 years old and another 267 or 10% is 25 to 29 years old. As of mid August, there were 428 AHTS vessels and PSVs under construction worldwide. Over the last 12 years, Tidewater has committed about $4.1 billion to either acquire or order 267 new offshore support vessels, including 77 deepwater platform supply vessels, 17 anchor handling tug supply vessels, 102 towing supply/supply vessels and 71 other vessels. It currently has 26 vessels under construction worldwide, including two 92.4m DP2 ABS Polar Class 7 PSVs at Fincantieri Marine Group’s Bay Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, WI. The two PSVs will be based on the MMC
887 LH PSV Design from MMC Ship Design & Marine Consulting of Poland. The first PSV will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2012 and the second in the second quarter of 2013. GULF MARK NEWBUILDS Meanwhile, GulfMark Americas, Inc. has committed about $300 million to building 11 new vessels, including two 296 ft DP2 PSVs from BAE Systems Southeast Shipyard in Mobile, AL, at an expected cost of $48 million each. Just like the Tidewater newbuilds, the GulfMark PSVs will be based on designs from MMC Ship Design & Marine Consulting, Ltd. of Poland. Each of the GulfMark vessels will be qualified under the U.S. Jones Act and will measure 288 feet long and 62 feet wide. The selection also includes options to build two additional platform supply vessels in the future. ECO NEWBUILDS The Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) family of companies has added to the aggressive newbuild campaign it first announced one year ago. ECO, which currently has 25 vessels under construc-
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