Two much less offshore vessels searching for work right now as Island Offshore proclaims constitution contracts for the corporate’s vessels Island Valiant and Island Constructor.

The contracts had been awarded by A/S Norske Shell for work on the Draugen oilfield within the Norwegian North Sea.

According to a press release from Island Offshore, the AHTS Island Valiant will begin with IMR-work (Inspection, Maintenance and Repair) on three wells in April, getting ready the wells for work to be carried out by the Island Constructor, a lightweight nicely intervention vessel, later in summer season 2016. The Island Valiant work is predicted to take about two weeks, the corporate mentioned.

The Island Constructor has really been assigned three jobs with the sooner beginning within the early summer season with Light Well Intervention (LWI) and scale squeeze on two wells at Draugen. In August to September, the vessel will return for 2 extra jobs involving LWI and IMR work, in response to the corporate.

Island Offshore mentioned that in whole the contracts are price about NOK 100 million ($12 million).

“These contracts are very welcome after a challenging winter with our LWI vessels being laid up for the season. It is very gratifying to see our crews and our vessels mobilizing and returning back to work after the winter,” says Managing Director in Island Offshore, Håvard Ulstein.

In addition to Island Constructor, Island Offshore’s different two LWI vessels, Island Wellserver and Island Frontier, at the moment are again in operation after beginning contracts with Statoil on April 1. The contract secures Island Wellserver and Island Frontier 200 days every yearly till 2020, the corporate mentioned.

Last month nevertheless, Island Offshore was compelled to put up two two platform provide vessels, Island Dragon and Island Duchess, pushing the overall variety of offshore vessel layups within the North Sea to 100 vessels.