A flourishing fleet, a wide variety of assignments and the arrival of next generation personnel transport vessels: BOURBON continues to expand with success in the promising Antilles-Guyana area. In April 2009, an oil company called upon BOURBON to transport its personnel to the platforms it managed on the east coast of Trinidad. The Group then [...]
French owner of offshore support vessels BOURBON is rolling out a transformation plan for its future growth. As part of its “TRANSFORMING FOR BEYOND” project, BOURBON has decided to sell vessels worth US$2.5 billion from its fleet and retain the vessels on bareboat charter for a period of 10 years. The terms of a first [...]
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A year after taking delivery of its last Bourbon Liberty 200 vessel and 1st Bourbon Liberty 300 vessel, BOURBON has extended its range of services with the Bourbon Liberty 151, the very first vessel in a series of 15 next generation PSVs. BOURBON has been investing in an extensive range of next generation built-in-series vessels [...]
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BOURBON has taken delivery of the Bourbon Evolution 803, the 3rd vessel in the 1st large IMR series for the offshore industry. The first two sisterships already operate in West Africa. Resource exploration is going into increasingly deep waters and the new milestone for oil and gas marine industry operations is now at 2,500 to [...]
Navis Engineering is supplying six DP2 systems for the new series of Fast Support Intervention Vessels (FSIVs) being built at the Piriou SEAS shipyard in Vietnam for Paris-based Bourbon, the offshore marine services provider. The first vessel in the six-ship series, the Bourbon Sirocco was delivered towards the end of 2012 and is deployed in [...]
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The BOURBON Board of Directors accepted Christian de Chateauvieux’s resignation, for personal reasons, from his position as Director effective November 7th 2012 at the board meeting on November 30th 2012. Christian de Chateauvieux has been a Director since 1990. He had a role in BOURBON’s growth and the focus on offshore oil marine services. All [...]
China’s Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. has delivered the platform supply vessel Bourbon Calm to its owner, Bourbon Offshore, on 2 November 2012. Bourbon Calm is the third in a series of four platform supply vessels of ULSTEIN’s PX105 design to Bourbon Offshore Norway from this yard. The ship has a length of 88.8 metres, a [...]
France-based owner of offshore support vessels, Bourbon, has confirmed that the 7 crew members, kidnapped from the Bourbon Liberty 249 vessel in Nigeria, on October 15, 2012 were released today. The company informed that 7 crew members, 6 Russians and 1 Estonian, all appear to be in good health. “For reasons of confidentiality and in [...]
Each year, BOURBON’s operational affiliates with a zero-incident rate are rewarded by the Group for their efficient preventive safety management. In 2009, BOURBON launched an incentive program to recognize the outstanding performance and best practices of its affiliates in terms of operational safety. Each year, safety awards are attributed to affiliates with a zero-incident rate [...]
Bourbon, a leader in offshore oil and gas marine services, released First Half 2012 Results. “Against the backdrop of a continuing favorable market environment. BOURBON reports growth in line with the BOURBON 2015 Leadership Strategy plan. as the positive impact of the increase in average daily rates applies to an expanding fleet”, says Christian Lefèvre, BOURBON’s [...]
