What’s the story on this big boy?
Heavy Load Carrier but are you asking what’s the load? Most likely discharging containers for the port’s relief.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=305508000
CEONA (formerly Offshore Installation Group, OIG) announces strategic initiatives 10 th
August 2012 : LONDON : CEONA has announced its new strategy after an in depth review initiated by Steve Preston, Chief Executive Officer. Steve Preston stated “the building blocks are now in place to deliver to the global deepwater market the proposition as a highly credible subsea construction and specialist marine contractor, competing with the best in the industry.”
The building blocks are founded around four elements; differentiated enabling assets, world class people, strong commercial partnerships and solid financial backing.
CEONA will deliver two enabling assets (Giant II (pictured) and Giant III) with game changing innovative delivery systems which will lay umbilicals, flexibles and rigid reeled pipelines in 3,000 metres of water depth and with deep water lowering capability of up to 500te to 3,000 metres. The vessels will have high transit speed, high load carrying capacity and will provide remote location efficiency.
These assets will be operated by a world class team led by Steve Preston (CEO, formerly Head of Commercial & Engineering at Heerema Marine Construction), Stuart Jackson (CFO, formerly CFO at Acergy), Stuart Cameron (COO, formerly VP Sales & Marketing at Subsea 7) and Erwin Lamertink (VP Commercial, where he held a similar role in Heerema). Also, in August CEONA completed the acquisition of Project Development International (PDi), a project, construction and engineering management services company with a long and proven track record in the subsea construction market. PDi has approximately 80 people, mainly subsea engineers and project management experts and will strengthen CEONA’s ability to win and execute business. CEONA has an existing strategic relationship with Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies, which further contributes to its capability to deliver complete solutions to the subsea construction market.
Solid financial backing is provided by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners (“GSCP”) CEONA’s principal shareholder, together with Harren & Partner and the management. In June GSCP endorsed the new strategic initiatives and provided the support to enable the company to move forward with its investments. Upon completion, assets under management will equate to over $600m.
CEONA’s principal executive offices in West London will be where the project management and engineering teams implement best in class project execution.
Commenting on the developments, Geir Aune, Chairman, stated “Since joining CEONA in March 2012 Steve has made a very significant contribution in a short period of time, aligning all aspects of the strategy and providing the team with a strong platform to take CEONA forward. I am highly confident that the team together with PDi will be successful in offering efficient and value added solutions to operators world-wide.”
Well that sure changes my idea for the vessel being in Port Fourchon.
Thanks Miley for the details. Checked out the website- looks like serious competition has descended on the local subsea construction community.
How much do you wanna bet all foreign fucking mariners on there?
I’d rather throw my money away up the road at Fin’s.
I’m sitting at the transport center at MSY surrounded by Norwegians and Phillipino’s…fucking tragedy
[QUOTE=Traitor Yankee;81097]I’m sitting at the transport center at MSY surrounded by Norwegians and Phillipino’s…fucking tragedy[/QUOTE]
Hva fi faen hellvette !
So what r u guys going to do about it?
[QUOTE=BMCSRetired;81127]So what r u guys going to do about it?[/QUOTE]
Get behind me if you give a shit! I’ve got all the names of who controls this BS in Washington and I want nothing more than to drop a whole shit pile on resumes on their desks saying “here’s your qualified American mariners who don’t exist”!
WAIVER DENIED!
[QUOTE=salt’n steel;81072]Thanks Miley for the details. Checked out the website- looks like serious competition has descended on the local subsea construction community.[/QUOTE]
Is there any truly “local” subsea capacity at that technical level? Just wondering. I am 200% for the Jones Act and Amerca, but I just don’t know if we are investing in that type of gear in a serious way.
Our experiences with American shipyards are laughable compared to the capacity and good results of many overseas building yards. I’d like to get over to Brasil one day and see how they are handling it. Any thoughts?
There should be one very simple rule for B1 OCS visas for the Gulf of Mexico: Companies can have as many visas for foreign offshore workers as they want, provided that for each foreign worker visa, they must hire two American “trainees” and pay them each the same salary as the foreign worker.
If that rule were in place, it would be amazing how fast the companies would be able to find qualified Americans. If not, at least they would have to start training Americans for these positions.
I’m going to call Obama fist thing in the morning and report this ship for being in my Port.
[QUOTE=+A465B;81129]Is there any truly “local” subsea capacity at that technical level? Just wondering. I am 200% for the Jones Act and Amerca, but I just don’t know if we are investing in that type of gear in a serious way.
Our experiences with American shipyards are laughable compared to the capacity and good results of many overseas building yards. I’d like to get over to Brasil one day and see how they are handling it. Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]
ECO, HOS and OCLLC are all moving towards super OSV class subsea vessels. HOS already has the ACHIEVER and IRON HORSE which although not US built or flagged have 100% US citizen crews just like 33CFRpart141 mandates they have.
Anchorman and CaptRob should be able to add to this.
[QUOTE=AHTS Master;81141]I’m going to call Obama fist thing in the morning and report this ship for being in my Port.[/QUOTE]
Probably won’t have any more success with him than we had with Bush. Try calling your senator and representative. If the congressmen down in the gulf states were against this crap it would not be going on, obviously they are not. Perhaps, if they thought they would not get reelected because they were allowing foreigners to take jobs from their constituents things might be different. Call them up and tell them you don’t give a damn about tax cuts, abortion, the debt and all that other crap they use as a smoke screen and don’t do nothing about while you are getting screwed by them and their “campaign contributors” by turning a blind eye to this crap.
[QUOTE=c.captain;81147]ECO, HOS and OCLLC are all moving towards super OSV class subsea vessels. HOS already has the ACHIEVER and IRON HORSE which although not US built or flagged have 100% US citizen crews just like 33CFRpart141 mandates they have.
Anchorman and CaptRob should be able to add to this.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. I’ll be heartily glad of it and agree with the other comments about raising a fuss. One silly way waivers are granted is to set up a series of ridiculous “training” and experience requirements, then advertise for that job for a few weeks thru the state job service, then show US immigration that no one “qualified” applied. You can usually tell these ads by some super specific reference to a piece of onboard gear — particularly the crane !
Have a nice day. I have to go raise hell with the Norwegians now.
HOS’s Ironhorse and Achiever are subsea construction ships built in a weather proof building in holland. IMHO, a US yard could not build a comparable ship for the same cost or quality.
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[QUOTE=salt’n steel;81208]HOS’s Ironhorse and Achiever are subsea construction ships built in a weather proof building in holland. IMHO, a US yard could not build a comparable ship for the same cost or quality. [/QUOTE]
I disagree entirely…just look at North American Shipbuilding. They own Tampa Ship now and my understanding is that they are setting up to build just such vessels right there. There is no reason a competent company like ECO can do anything they want.
Regarding ECO- I stand corrected, they build good equipment but I like what I see regarding the T-22 class boats like the Achiever.