Foreign Flag Vessels in GOM

I don’t know if McDermott is planning to deploy this one primarily, occasionally, or not at all in the GoM:
https://www.osjonline.com/news/view,mcdermott-to-convert-vessel-for-ultradeepwater-jlay-work_53766.htm

Correction; not one but five companies are planning VLCC Terminals along the GoM coast:
https://splash247.com/vlcc-terminals-set-to-spread-far-and-wide-across-the-us-gulf/

One foreign flag vessel is leaving US waters after completing it’s stay at Chevron’s Big Foot Field in the GoM:

Will this mean that more foreign vessels and mariners will be seen in the GoM?:
https://splash247.com/promethean-energy-and-subsea-7-collaborate-on-gulf-of-mexico-projects/

I dont get you gulf guys you hate unions but want job protection from a written contract.

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Subsea 7 picks up another contract in deepsea GoM:


It doesn’t say which vessel(s) they will be using, but most likely something looking like the one shown in the article will be involved, as well as some US flag vessels on charter to Subsea 7 USA.

UPDATE:
More work for Subsea 7 in GoM:
https://www.subsea7.com/en/media/company-news/2018/subsea-7-awarded-integrated-contract-offshore-us-gulf-of-mexico.html

McDermott is gearing up to compete for the deepwater GoM work, but presently their CSVs are mostly engaged in shallow water and abroad:

Looks like there are resistance against offshore loading off Corpus Christie:

The argument are under built by really well founded arguments and great knowledge:

Single Point Mooring (SPM) loading and discharging of crude oil is used worldwide and has been for several decades. The risk of spillage exists equally, if not more so, if the VLCCs are brought into shallow and heavily trafficked ports to load/discharge. Controlling a spill before it hits the shoreline is also more difficult when it happens in a confined space and close to shore.

The CSV Rem Saltire (ex Fugro Saltire) is on her way to Galveston on a long term contract with an “unknown charterer”:


Anybody know for whom she will be working, or if it will be working in the US GoM?

In her element:

I’d bet you are trilled the ship is in US waters now and will likely be for a long while now with all its Norwegian officers and Filipino crew which we all know are superior to those miserable unwashed Americans who lack all necessary brain capacity to complete complex offshore construction support.

WHAT AN ASS YOU ARE

The Rem Saltire is a Cypriot vessel. I have no idea who is crewing her. Do you??
She left from The Netherlands 3 days ago, so not in US waters yet:

I also don’t know if she is going to work in the US GoM, or going to Galveston to pick up additional equipment and crew. (Possibly Americans who will be working on board wherever she will be heading next)

AND YOU ARE STILL A GRUMPY OLD FART!!!

Foreign flagged, still the way to go.

Why do you try to bring down your own people?
I’m sure that there are lots of American mariners that, if given the opportunity to work on a vessel like the Rem Saltire, or larger CSVs, like McDermott’s Amazon:
https://www.mcdermott.com/What-We-Do/Marine-Construction-Vessel/Amazon
could do the job after some experience working worldwide.

McDermott has got a new contract in GoM:


They will be using their large CSV North Ocean 105:
https://www.metalships.com/news?new=115

The North Ocean 105 is now 100% McDermott owned:
https://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/mcdermott-to-complete-north-ocean-105-vessel-buy-in-june/

Some interesting HLVs will be showing up in the GoM soon:

In case it’s not obvious I closed this thread because it was started in 2015 and is now far from the original topic.