Offshore staff
(Paris) Bourbon Offshore announces that so far this year, it has placed orders for 56 new offshore support vessels, carrying a total investment of $808 m. This is on top of the 27 supply vessels already under construction for the company at year-end 2005.
The new orders comprise 18 vessels for deepwater operations, namely: four Ulstein P105 platform supply boats, and eight GPA 670 PSVs, all under assembly at the Zheijiang shipyards in China; five anchor handling tug supply vessels with 11,000 HP and 125 t bollard pull, being built by Bharati shipyards in India; and one multi-purpose supply vessel (MPSV) with a 100 t heave-compensated crane, being assembled by De Hoop in The Netherlands.
Elsewhere, Bourbon has ordered 36 supply vessels and two MPSVs to replace existing vessels from Bharati and China's Dayang shipyards.
4-28-06
