Roundup: Eidesvik, Allseas, Shelf Drilling, Seatrium and others share rig and vessel contract updates

Eidesvik Offshore has commissioned a new construction support vessel (CSV) for subsea and offshore renewable energy tasks, under a partnership with Agalas and Reach Subsea.

As with a similar CSV ordered by Eidesvik, it will be built at the Sefine Shipyard in Turkey, with delivery scheduled for spring 2027. The vessel will be outfitted to undertake inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) work.

Upon delivery, it will enter a five-year time charter with Reach Subsea, with options for two one-year extensions. Eidesvik will provide management of the vessel, including crewing.

It will be two-thirds owned by an entity co-owned by Eidesvik and Agalas, and controlled by Eidesvik, and one-third owned by Reach Subsea. At present, Eidesvik co-owns one vessel with Reach Subsea and another with Agalas.

The new vessel, designed by NSK Ship Design, will feature a battery hybrid system and dual-fuel gensets that can run on either methanol or marine gas oil. It will have an overall length of 99.9 m, a breadth of 21 m, accommodation for up to 100 personnel, a 150-mt heave-compensated crane and a 900-sq-m deck area.

Also onboard will be an ROV launch and recovery system, prepared for operations in deepwater seabed surveys.

Ocean Installer, North Sea Shipping extend vessel charter agreement

Moreld subsidiary Ocean Installer has taken up an 18-month option to extend a charter with North Sea Shipping for the offshore construction vessel North Sea Giant until the end of first-quarter 2027.

The agreement includes further options that could prolong the charter through the end of 2029.

North Sea Giant will work on contracted projects and potentially others in the North Sea and elsewhere.

The DP3 vessel has a hybrid battery system, a large deck, a 400-mt active heave-compensated crane and two work class ROVS. Last year Ocean Installer mobilized a 150-mt vertical lay spread on the vessel to enable flexible pipe and umbilical laying in deeper waters.

Allseas modernizing Solitaire pipelay production process

Allseas plans to upgrade the double joint factory pipelay system of the Solitaire vessel.

The double joint factory, installed in 1998 at the main deck level, comprises two identical production lines in which single 12-m pipe joints are welded into 24-m double joints before entering the main production line.

The process is said to speed up pipelay, with improved weld quality and consistency. Since startup, more than 13,000 km of steel pipe has passed through the double joint factory.

However, Allseas has identified the need for upgrades to the pipehandling, tracking, processing, welding and inspection systems, and also certain structural modifications. These should improve the efficiency and safety of the overall production process, from line-up to welding of the pipe.

Goriziane, based in northern Italy, will supply all pipehandling deck equipment for the project, along with the electrical and instrumentation components necessary to power and control the systems, with delivery scheduled for January 2026. Installation and commissioning will be conducted by Allseas later that year.

Solitaire has a pipe-carrying capacity of 22,000 metric tons, with dynamic positioning to support manoeuvring. In 2007, Allseas added, the vessel established a new record for ultradeepwater pipeline installation at a depth of 2,775 m (9,100 f).

Amplus targets flexible, fast-track deployments for Petrojarl I FPSO

Amplus Energy Services has acquired the FPSO Petrojarl I from Altera Infrastructure.

The vessel’s most recent deployment was offshore Brazil.

Amplus plans to make it available as a ready-to-deploy system that could be deployed at short notice for use as early production, or for extended well tests or standalone marginal field developments. 

It could support lower-production operations, early-phase or tail-end production in regions such as Brazil, Suriname, Vietnam or West Africa, Amplus believes, with minimal modifications to be field-ready for specific project needs.

According to the company, Petrojarl I was the first world’s newbuild harsh-environment FPSO, achieving first oil in 1986 and operated since by Teekay (subsequently Altera) on 11 different fields.

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Shelf Drilling jackup contract extended offshore Africa

Shelf Drilling gained a one-year extension for the Shelf Drilling Scepter jackup on Feb. 20 for a client drilling offshore West Africa.

The new award, valued at about $50 million, extends the rig’s commitment until July 2026.

This jackup has a maximum drilling depth of 35,000 ft and a max water depth of 350 ft. It can accomodate 150 people.

Seatrium supplying equipment for IMI-built jackup rig

The International Maritime Industries (IMI) shipyard has contracted Seatrium Offshore Technology to provide equipment for a new LeTourneau Super 116E Class Self-Elevating Drilling Unit (SE-MODU).

Kingdom 3’s selected design will be Seatrium’s LeTourneau Super 116E Class, customized for operations in the MENA region. It will be the 44^th order for this series of jackups.

The rigs will be outfitted with 343 ft of leg and a 1.5 million-pound hook load, and will feature “advanced cyber systems,” Seatrium said in a Feb. 20 news release.

The company claims to have designed and supported construction of 65% of the jackups operating in the Middle East.