With the growing variety of laid up platform provide vessels due the downturn within the offshore oil and gasoline business, Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards says it has provide you with a number of possible concepts to transform idle vessels to serve roles in different business sectors.

It’s no shock that the dramatic collapse within the value of crude since mid-2014 has despatched shock waves all through the offshore oil and gasoline business, forcing oil corporations to chop investments, halt exploration tasks and scale back manufacturing. This, not surprisingly, has led to a considerable drop in assist vessel day charges and a report variety of laid up offshore vessels from the North Sea to the Gulf of Mexico and past.

Damen now says it has options to get PSVs lively and worthwhile as soon as once more, using its expertise and world-wide community of restore and conversion yards to transform idle-vessels to serve various sectors akin to aquaculture, transport and protection.

“Our design teams have come up with workable ideas across several industries,” says Damen Sales Manager Remko Hottentot. “For example, we can convert a laid up PSV into a profitable Container Feeder or, for naval operations, a Logistic Support Vessel. The possibilities are numerous. It will also be possible to transform a PSV into an accommodation and O&M vessel.”

One instance of an already developed proposal is the Damen Live Fish Carrier 8916 for the aquaculture business. “Here, the concept of using the existing PSV platform is ideal, yielding many advantages for live fish carrying situations,” says Hottentot.

In addition to everlasting conversion ideas, Damen says it might additionally create short-term designs which will be utilized to vessels initially constructed by Damen or different shipbuilders.

“We can offer significant design and conversion expertise to owners and operators looking for effective solutions,” Hottentot says. “In combination with reliable financing support, this makes up a unique combination of activities that can be translated into realistic conversion packages.”