Support Vessel News


Equinor's Troll Gas Field Outage Extends to end of May

May 27, 2025

Equinor has extended a partial outage at Norway's Troll natural gas field until May 31 due to a compressor failure, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, pushing European gas prices higher.Norway in 2022 overtook Russia as Europe's…

EU: 44 Oil and Gas Firms Asked to Provide CO2 Storage Solutions

May 23, 2025

The European Commission said on Thursday it had asked 44 oil and gas companies to contribute to the EU's collective target of storing at least 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030, as part of the bloc's aim to achieve climate neutrality…

Norway Grants Permit for Equinor’s Drilling Plan in North Sea

May 23, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor Energy and its partners a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The permit is for wellbore 35/11-31 S in production licence 090, operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…

Shell Expects to Bank On LNG Exporters Turning Into Importers

May 23, 2025

Energy major Shell expects several traditional LNG exporter nations to turn into net importers, driving demand for the super chilled fuel and potentially easing concerns that the industry faces oversupply from a raft of planned new projects…

OSV Operates on Green Hydrogen

Oct 14, 2024

An offshore support vessel (OSV) has successfully operated on green hydrogen in the German Wadden Sea.Aiming to minimize its environmental impact, operator Acta Marine, based in the Netherlands, decided to install eCap Marine’s containerized…

Viking Supply Ships to Upgrade Four AHTS with Subsea Cranes

Oct 07, 2024

Sweden-based Viking Supply Ships announced it has secured a contract for four 100-ton heave-compensated offshore cranes to be installed on its fleet of ice classed anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels.These advanced cranes will enhance the vessels' capabilities…

Coastal Contracts Orders Subsea Support Vessel Pair in China

Sep 20, 2024

Malaysian shipowner Coastal Contracts Bhd on Thursday placed an order with Chinese shipbuilder Fujian Funing Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Group, for a pair of 85-meter subsea support/maintenance vessels…

PaxOcean Bags Order to Build Up to 10 New MPSVs

Sep 16, 2024

Shipbuilder PaxOcean announced it has signed a contract with an undisclosed Greek shipowner for the construction of up to 10 multipurpose service vessels (MPSV).The significant order comes as demand rises across the offshore support vessel (OSV) sector…

DOF Subsea Grows Its APAC Backlog

Aug 30, 2024

DOF Subsea (DOF) on Friday announced a contract extension and a contract award securing further backlog for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.A contract extension has been secured for dive support vessel Skandi Singapore with the vessel fully committed…

China's First Purpose-built Offshore Wind SOVs Delivered

Aug 28, 2024

Shanghai Electric earlier this month celebrated the combined naming and delivery of two service operation vessels (SOV) at ZPMC, Qidong base, China. The vessels are based on two different ship designs from Ulstein Design & Solutions AS and are…

Havila Shipping Reports Quarterly Profit

Aug 27, 2024

Offshore supply services company Havila Shipping has recorded a profit before tax of NOK 4.0 million ($382,000) in Q2 2024, compared with NOK -5.4 million in Q2 2023.Deals made in the quarter include the agreement with Reach Subsea to extend the contract for the IMR vessel Havila Subsea…

Cheramie Marine OSV Repowered

Aug 22, 2024

Louisiana-based Cheramie Marine's offshore support vessel (OSV) Mary Cheramie has been refitted with a pair of new Mitsubishi engines, power solutions provider Laborde Products announced.The vessel's two new Mitsubishi Tier 3 S12R engines, each delivering 1…

Explosion Kills Two on Icon Offshore Supply Vessel

Aug 14, 2024

Malaysia-based Icon Offshore Berhad has confirmed that two seafarers were killed and another badly wounded during an incident on board one of its platform supply vessels (PSV).The fatal incident involving Icon Offshore's Icon Amara occurred on August 2…

Sea1 to Manage Viking Supply Ships' AHTS Fleet

Aug 07, 2024

Sweden-based Viking Supply Ships on Tuesday announced plans to outsource the management of its six anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels to Sea1 Offshore, based in Norway.The management agreements are scheduled to be completed in October 2024…

Olympic CSOV Completes Sea Trials

Jun 10, 2024

A new construction service operations vessel (CSOVs) being built by Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein Verft for Olympic has completed sea trials.The newbuild, Olympic Boreas, launched from the dock hall at Ulstein Verft on April 6, is the first of two sister vessels for Olympic…

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