Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc. (HOS) studies that it has entered right into a definitive vessel buy settlement with Nautical Solutions LLC, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore, to amass a complete of six high-spec new era offshore provide vessels (OSVs) for an undisclosed amount of money.
All of the vessels are U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-qualified, 280 class DP-2 OSVs with capacities of circa 4,750 DWT. Based on sure situations, HOS anticipates taking serial deliveries of all six vessels over the following 12 to fifteen months.
“We are very excited about this additional acquisition, which continues our growth strategy for the benefit of our employees, oilfield and non-oilfield customers and other constituents,” mentioned HOS president and CEO Todd Hornbeck. “We continue to explore our strategic plans for additional growth and business diversification initiatives as we look to the future.”
This will not be Covington, La., based mostly Hornbeck Offshore’s first acquisition of offshore provide vessels from Chouest. Back in January final yr it introduced that it had agreed to amass ten Chouest vessels. Eight of these vessels have been, like these within the newest acquisition, U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-qualified, 280 class DP-2 OSVs. The different two others have been Mexican-flagged 240 class DP-2 OSVs with capacities of about 3,200 DWT.
Then, as now, the events didn’t disclose the value
