Dockwise inks $175m deals

Heavy-lift specialist Dockwise has scooped a plethora of marine contracts worth a combined $175 million but has remained mum on some of the details.

The ship owner is to install the topsides for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen development in the North Sea through a dual-barge float-over in 2015.

The Norwegian oil giant has also signed up Dockwise to transport a fixed production structure from South Korea to Norway the following year.

Those contracts were two of four long-term deals with another being the transportation of a jacket and topsides to Malaysia with installation of the 15,000-tonne topsides in 2015.

Dockwise will also use its vessel Dockwise Vanguard to transport a floating production, storage & offloading unit from the Far East to West Africa in 2016.

Other short term contracts include the transportation of numerous jack-ups with one newbuild coming out of Singapore to Brazil in 2013 or 2014.

Dockwise did not give individual contract values or name units or a number of clients.