On the first and second of July I was in Marseille for the IT seminar. It was the first one in the history of BOURBON so a lot of ideas were shared.
But for Bourbon Offshore Greenmar vessels the most important part was that all vessels with OBS (Orange Business Services) VSAT will have at least a light kit for vessels without client on board or VIV kit (very important vessel) for critical vessels with client on board.
All provided by Bourbon. On the other side OBS provides, at its charge, seven on-shore spare lots in the following countries: France (1), Angola (2), Nigeria (2), Brazil (1), Congo (1).
These spares cover the three models of antennas.
The second point is an agreement to have on new vessels only one type of Fleet antenna for the backup system. This will be Thrane and Thrane Fleet Broadband.
At the same time, the IT department made some test on Bourbon Emerald and Bourbon Hidra to include these two new vessels on the BOURBON Network and on Nigeria with a new technology of VSAT antenna named BDSU that is less sensitive to bad weather.
Number of attendants keeps on growing every year.
Last April there were more than 60 atttendants.
The morning Cadet Elizabeth Anwana entered the Bourbon Diamond engine room, it was a surprise for all the engine staff and the odds on her were quiet low.
However she proved with patience, dedication and courage that she is much more than a beautiful girl. She is now performing difficult and skilled tasks such as taking tap clearances of the main engines and dirty jobs such as cleaning the oil separators.
During a typical morning meeting in the engine control room, the Chief Engineer will always ask who will work with Elizabeth and you cannot imagine how many volunteers raise the hands. She is treated with very much respect by all the crew and she brought beauty to an area traditionally dedicated to hairy engineers.
To quote her : “ It’s more like a battle field where soldiers will have to look out for each other’s back, in terms of safety and I must comment on the good team spirit during maintenance and repairs, all hands join in. I found it easy to get along with the engine crew, no communication barrier at all, the engineers are always guiding me through any difficult jobs and giving me tasks to accomplish.”
CE Advisor, Josko KACUNIC is the first Advisor to start the program of the on board Support Program. Josko has visited 3 ships so far, all of them in the Persian Gulf. The Support Program has been exceptionally well received, so efforts are underway to broaden its scope and offer more support to more ships on more topics.
We are now proud to announce that Manuel BRADOVENT has joined the Support Program as ETO Advisor. Manuel is highly qualified and experienced in electrical and electronic engineering and already has served aboard a variety of our ships. As with Josko, his tasks include on-the-job instruction, but Manuel will also be visiting ships where his expertise is needed for specific maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs.
Manuel’s initial focus – although not exclusively - will also be to support crews on ships in the Persian Gulf before moving to other operational zones.
It is also an aim of the Program that our Advisors become experts on our ships and knowledgeable references relating to operational procedures and equipment.
When you have been many years in a conventional ship, carrying out anchor handling maneuvers, it is very interesting to do this operation with a new type of vessel.
On January 11 Bourbon Liberty undertook its first anchor handling operation and what surprised me most was the vessel’s handling capacity especially in the astern mode as with the Z-Drive one had the quickness and accuracy to be able to pick up and bring the buoy on deck in a very short time.
When the vessel is run astern the central propeller allows one to stop the vessel in a short distance; this way, using only one astern Z-Drive you can bring the aft roller beside the buoy in short time.
The speed and pull capacity of the anchor winch, equipped with two speeds, allows one to undertake fast and effective work.
Two the anchors, both 15 tons, were handled in manual mode. With the last one the ship was tested in DP mode. For this the vessel was stopped 50m from the buoy, the DP mode was selected using 0.2kn speed and mode No-BIAS. With this the vessel remained in a static position only 20cm from the buoy.
What really surprised me was the ease with which one was able to carry out this operation with the new System.
I can see that this type of vessel will be the future in offshore operations.
This year’s HR Meeting was 3 days of intensive workshops and presentations held in Marseille. All the latest projects were showcased by senior management.
First came a 1 day workshop on OCS, the principal software that we use for crew management. We are to receive an updated version with greater functionality. It is also being offered to other crew managers who have not yet been using it.
The following 2 days were presentations with brief discussions mainly about training and common HR issues.
These issues included the new ‘Client Satisfaction Chain’; the Employer Branding Project; issues about employing ‘local content’; crew compensation and benefits; and the use of software and internet applications to find new recruits.
Many new initiatives were motivated by marketing in order to strengthen BOURBON’s competitive advantage in this challenging economic climate. Becoming more customer orientated, and ‘transparent’. And using our QHSE results, training programs and on board procedural standards to demonstrate to clients that BOURBON is a quality company.
BOURBON is still a very young but rapidly maturing company. Top management are now driving to encourage convergence and a standardized practice among the affiliated crew managers and operators.
Expect to see some new initiatives and changes coming your way soon.
Two years ago Bourbon Offshore Greenmar, Bourbon Offshore Surf and Bourbon Offshore Asia started the Ulysses project.
Goal of this project is implementation of the Task Assistant (TA) programme into all aspects of vessels handling, and simplifying of communications between vessels and offices.
The department in charge of Ulysses is situated in Marseille, but personnel from all three groups are involved.
I have been working on this job since March 2008. Before that I was working for various companies as Marine Engineer, and computers were just a hobby of mine.
In the first part of the project, programmes had to be prepared for each vessel separately, and information gathered concerning vessels and equipment on board. For that reason they needed people with a good technical background, and with more than the average knowledge about information technology, and this is where I have come in.
During this first period, I was engaged in data collection for Bourbon Offshore Greenmar, Bourbon Offshore Surf and Bourbon Interoil Limited vessels, mainly in Africa. But since deployment of the programme has started, I am working as TA Instructor for Greenmar personnel.
My duties are training each officer on board, discovering programme errors and reporting to them to Marseille, helping with initial programme updates (maintenance, inventory, check lists…), and IT equipment repairs required to be done on site.
I usually stay on board a vessel one or two weeks, depending on the situation on board, and depending on the programme preparation quality. During my stay I expect full cooperation from the crew. In return I do my best to adjust to the crew’s working schedules and rest periods. This way, in the majority of cases, we have an excellent working relationship.
Yang and Su or " One " and " Two " how our crew ended calling them, are two young Chinese citizens willing to learn and struggle to become maritime officers.
Wang is from Boha, a place where offshore exploration is taking place right now. He is a single kid, living with his parents. Su was born in a small village close to Beijing, he has two sisters.
The two of them joined the Maritime University of Dalian four years ago and upon completion of their studies, they were selected by Bourbon China to join our Company as trainee Mates.
Yvette assigned them originally to the Bourbon Gulf Liberty 208 and as part of the team, they crossed the Indian Ocean during the Monsoon. Needless to tell you that both of them were very seasick in the beginning but recovered successfully after a few days of rock and roll.
They did so well there and were so much appreciated by the crew of the 208 that Yvette decided to give them a bonus of one more trip through the Indian Ocean as part of the crew of the Bourbon Gulf Liberty 211. This meant that in a couple of months these two young Chinese officers accumulated more miles than Columbus and Magellan together in the same elapsed time and for sure probably much more than you and I in a couple of months!
As I write these lines, " Two " is plotting radar targets, getting their names in the AIS, calling them, changing course as required and plotting positions. When the vessel was in China the two of them had different tasks that varied from cleaning the galley, preparing the vessel for sea and helping the ship's staff to cope with the Chinese yard workers-which means that both of them are experts in washing and ironing!
" Two " has a classmate crossing the Indian Ocean right now aboard the Bourbon Liberty 212 bound to West Africa, so most probably " Three " is very seasick by now as they are doubtless passing the Cape at this time.
Wang and Su's trainings as cadets will last one year, and, at any moment, anyone of you could receive one of them or perhaps an " Eight " or " Nine ". Because if there are more like these two in China we want them here.
You can be sure that these young Chinese officers will do their very best to carry out their duties and the day they leave everybody will have good memories of them.
As clearly defined, the aims and needs of the BOURBON group are to double the number of employees along with the fleet growth by the year 2012. There are still some 4'500 people to be recruited before then.
Bourbon Offshore Greenmar, wearing the double cap of a Manning Agency for some of the BOURBON Subsidiaries and being a Ship Manager in its own right, has an important role to play in the recruitment of seafarers and non-seafarers.
So it was natural that Bourbon Offshore Greenmar, amongst other BOURBON Subsidiaries, was involved in the setup of this E-recruiting tool named " Taleo " which was launched on June 18, this year.
To effectively classify and manage a complex variety of applicants, Taleo will help Crew Managers to narrow down the profile of an ever growing number of candidates applying, in order to keep a high standard of recruiting and a quality personnel that have been the trademark of BOURBON since the beginning.
For a better visibility, Taleo is directly linked to the BOURBON Human Resources website which gathers all the job offers any BOURBON Subsidiary has to offer around the world.
So if you have friends who want to be part of the BOURBON family, from wherever they are, just tell them to go and browse in the BOURBON Human Resources website for updated job opportunities.
Good search!
Between the 18 and 19 of May, the Bourbon Herald performed his first operation as a stimulation vessel. It was an " Acid Frac Job ".
The Oil industry started with hydraulic frac jobs in 1984 in order to replace the danger of performing the same action with explosives.
This is a common well stimulation technique to increase both the present and the ultimate production.
The first could be improved from 1,5 times up to 30 times. Ultimate production might be increased from 5 to 15%. About 50% of gas wells and 30% of oil wells are already fraced in the United States.
An acid frac job like this one is normally done in several steps:
All the above was performed in eight hours. Pressure to inject the frac fluid this time was about 4'500 psi. Our Engineers are a vital part in this kind of operation with Schlumberger, working on line with the frac master to open, close and start valves, pumps and compressors.
Possible problems may occur as a well can be fraced several times in its life, however hydraulic fracturing can harm a well by fracing into water. But that is our Client Schlumberger's responsibility, not ours!
Generally life on board is not easy, the scope of the job is never clear. The Charterer's Rep comes asking if we have fuel and food to start a job, but he doesn't know where the rig location is and when.
When we tried to keep the vessel ready with full fuel and water, they said that was not possible! We may have to face different jobs, supposed to be done for different contractors.
So it will be as if we are on the spot market again-different bases, companies and places to deal with. At least we know there are three jobs still remaining to be carried out in the Congo. For Engineers, life can be tough. A frac job preparation takes several days at the anchorage or at the jetty. For that, Engineers are requested to start or stop several times our bulk compressors, liquid product pumps, fuel cargo pumps, open/close many valves at the same time, a 24 hour interface with the Schlumberger team (about fifteen persons).
The marine challenge for this job is to hold position until the last minute. Especially once we are connected to the well with the coflex hose, as this operation has " no return way ".
In case of failure of the DP2, we would hold on DP 1 and if necessary, I could be requested to hold the position manually.
In a disaster scenario, there is a " controlled emergency procedure to disconnect " and if the well is out of control, there is a quick release handle, the break on the hose wheel gets released and just by pulling the vessel away, the hose drops free into the water. Of course, it is obvious that the Master has the last decision.
Bourbon Herald has an excellent capability to hold position due to its azimuth propellers and two tunnel thrusters, but I must admit this propulsion system is awful to steer with!
During my last talk with the Schlumberger Rep, I was told that people from ENI were so happy with this job that they want us once more for another well very soon!
That's all the news from Bourbon Herald.
Best wishes to All!
May 2009
The Officers Seminar took place on 22nd and 23rd April, in Chavannes de Bogis near Nyon. We were delighted to have Christian Lefevre and Frank Dambrin during these couple of days. Thank you All for your attendance!
The Task Assistant is well implemented now within the Bourbon Offshore Greenmar fleet with already eight ships equipped out of twenty-two (FSIV's and Surfers are not expected to be fitted with this software).
But the 2009 planning is even more motivating with almost the entire fleet on which Task Assistant is scheduled for the third quarter (only three or four ships will remain to be outfitted). Most of the ship databases have now been completed and we only need to install the V-Sat system and then to download the software.
Up to now, Technical, QHSE and Operations modules are available in Task Assistant. The Purchasing module is still being tested with a pilot ship. If the results are found to be successful, it will be launched for the entire BOURBON fleet.
Concerning the system deployment within Bourbon Offshore Greenmar vessels, two options are possible: Those ships already having and using V-Sat will have Task Assistant downloaded in the coming weeks as soon as the database is finished. For the others, it will be downloaded at the latest during the next dry dock when V-Sat is installed. Of course, we shall try to do it earlier for those vessels with a dry dock scheduled after 2009.
Specific training is also part of the project with two assigned trainers who visited vessels having Task Assistant on board. Their main duty was to give training courses to the officers on the software which made their stay on board very short.
But from now on, and in addition to the training courses, the trainers will stay longer on the ships to start the software utilization with the officers and ensure that everything is well understood. We want officers to be fully familiar with Task Assistant by the time the trainers leave the ship.
The first step of the Task Assistant development is now over (except for Purchasing). The next step is to assimilate the Task Assistant system and use it as much as necessary.
The Annual HR Managers Meeting occurred in Marseilles from March 3rd to 05. It was a great opportunity to meet HR teams from BOURBON subsidiaries and to exchange.
It's been done! AHTS Weza has left Luanda with her 5.5 ton port shaft generator installed at last.
In the busy life of Weza, after one year's waiting, February was the month chosen to carry out her long list of pending jobs. Jobs that had always been postponed as the result of the lack of time due the tight agenda in her normal scheduled tasks. For that reason the maintenance list was getting longer and longer.
But now, in the two weeks since 20 January, the port shaft generator has been installed and aligned; the bearings changed in the starboard shaft generator; both main engines overhauled and pipes renewed in the dry bulk system. Being anchored in Luanda Bay, needless to say these jobs could only be carried out due to the help and collaboration of the crew, the specialists, the superintendents and the shore workshop. Our thanks to everyone involved.
Long live Weza - she now sails with renewed energy, almost as a brand new vessel, to show that she can carry on with all the work that still remains to be done in Block 17!!
The Dayang Shibuilding Company is located close to the city of Yangzhou on the Yangtze River. The Bourbon Liberty 100 and 200 are being built at the two Dayang shipyards, Wantou and Xinba.
Wantou is the older of the two shipyards and is where most of the steel work is done, from the steel cutting up to the launching of the finished hull. The blocks (fully fitted), are assembled in a two-level dry-dock able to accommodate four hulls of Bourbon liberty type. After the vessels have been launched, they stay several weeks alongside and are then towed to Xinba. The accommodation blocks cannot be installed yet because they have to pass under a bridge.
Xinba is the bigger of the two shipyards and has now, with its phase II development, amazing facilities mainly dedicated to the construction of large vessels such as bulk carriers and container vessels including a giant dry dock capable of accommodating four bulk carriers at the same time.
For smaller vessels, such as the Bourbon Offshore vessels, Xinba does less steel work (mostly the accommodation blocks) and is more dedicated to the fitting out and the commissioning of systems. When a vessel is ready for sea-trials, we carry them out in the Yangtze River, almost in front of the shipyard.
The site team, like Dayang Shipyard, is divided into two teams and the Zhejiang one is really multinational with Chinese, Croatian, French, Romanian and Singaporean people. We are now used to working with almost all the Bourbon Offshore branches including the Bourbon Liberty series and formerly the 70 and 80 tons AHTS vessels.
We are presently dealing with fifteen vessels, six afloat at Ximba, two afloat at Wantou, four in dry-dock at Wantou and three at various stages. We took delivery of twelve Bourbon Liberty 100 (GPA654M) vessels in 2008 and should be able to take delivery of eleven Bourbon Liberty vessels in 2009.
The Zhejiang Shipbuilding Company is situated one hour south of Ningbo, in Fenghua, Hu Tou Du village, alongside Xiangshan Bay. Since our arrival in 2003 massive extension work has been carried out at this shipyard, with the construction of the ZHEJIANG Phase II facilities. Vessels constructed in this shipyard are 53000 TDW bulk carriers, container vessels of 1800 TEU and 4250 TEU, 5300 TDW Bitumen carriers and BOURBON vessels.
Between 2003 and 2006, ten GPA670 MK I have been delivered to BOURBON. Then four P105 (Ulstein Design), four GPA670 MK II - Special products and one GPA670 MK II - ROV, the last on 15th of December (a PSV for ROV operations). Under construction at present, we have fourteen GPA254 L - AHTS 80 ton bollard pull, three GPA670 MK II - ROV, two PX105 MACS and one GPA696 IMR.
A total of forty-five vessels remain to be delivered between 2009 and 2012.
Our team is composed of twenty-five persons: the Site Manager, project leader, superintendents and surveyors, and we are a multinational team from France, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Argentina, Norway, the Faeroes, and China. Superintendents manage the general construction phase of a vessel and surveyors the more specialized items such as hull, machinery, piping and automation.
The daily work consists mainly of inspections of those vessels under construction, with or without a Class representative, commissioning of equipment, sea trials and delivery. All superintendents are in charge of two or three vessels at a time but at different levels of construction, such as on the blocks stage, erection on the slipway or after launching. Next year, not less than fifteen vessels are planned to be delivered. The job is never the same, each day is different, even if we are building identical vessels. Our relationship with the shipyard is very good and together there is a good spirit of cooperation
Concerning myself, I am a seaman since 1972 with C1NM/C2NM ranking, in new building activity since 1999 - Spain first for Trailing Suction Hopper dredgers - China for products tankers - then BOURON for offshore supply vessels.
About Ningbo: this is a city of 6 million people, a business city, open and modern. It is two and a half hours from Shanghai, via the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, one of the longest bridges in the world (38.4 kms). Formely Ning Po was a Portuguese settlement; there are still the remains of the Old Catholic church. Now it is one of the deepest and largest ports for the container vessels.
I have just started my new job as Port Engineer in Saudi Arabia. My role is to regularly visit BOURBON vessels based in Tanajib, checking that they are in good order, well maintained, clean and tidy, assisting with local services and purchases, checking that all inventories on board are up-to-date, checking safety equipment for servicing and ensuring service certificates are delivered in time. Additionally I am in touch with the Technical Superintendent, reporting to him about vessel status and new and closed defects.
These are my basic duties but there are huge difficulties here that limit the effectiveness of my work. I am limited in my movements ashore and limited in my stay. The reason is that I need to have an Aramco ID and to get this, you must be approved by the Aramco authority, first of all as a Chief Engineer, but only on an AHTS vessel and, only after that, can you be approved as a Port Engineer.
So in this case, when my temporary pass had expired, the only way was to leave Saudi so as to have a chance to arrive on board one of our vessel like a seaman-to-be- approved Chief Engineer as, according to Saudi rules I could not get approval while in Saudi. So I left the country for Bahrain and joined the Bourbon Liberty 106.
During my stay in Tanajib base, I had been introduced to different people in various departments, who helped me from the beginning, so that I was able to organize the delivery of some spares without delay to our vessels, and found, with a local operation manager's help, a location to store items for our fleet.
For me, this new position is very interesting, but local rules are extremely complicated. But I hope, that sooner or later, the situation will improve - the sooner the better!
FIRST DAY OF TRAINING
The first day of our visit to the EPD training centre started when Mr. Pierre Piveteau, Representative of BOURBON EPD, arrived with his car at the hotel and brought us to the EPD factory. On arrival at the EPD building, having signed the visitors' book at the reception desk, we were shown into his office. There we had one hour discussion on the booklet that, with the help of the EPD staff, made for easier understanding of the system. Everyone received a copy of booklet and a CD with the same material.
After that we were taken on a tour of the factory, starting from the production:
Transformers, from start to finished product;
MCC cabinets, phase installation components, one by one;
EOS container, with all equipment installation;
SCR drives and their component mountings.
We were shown all phases of the initial construction and installation of electrical components in the EPD system. The first day we attended the simulation of the MSB interlock facilities and procedures for start/stop, connect/disconnect, parallel generators and Bus tie functional operation in the one of the EOS, which was ready for delivery to one of the vessels at Dayang.
It was mentioned that the EOS had three generator connections, including the two L-D DC motors, for simulation and FAT for ABS class, so everything was presented as in the actual onboard situation.
SECOND DAY OF TRAINING
The second day of training was spent with Mr. Tommy Roberts, Testing Manager, and was associated with the introduction of work with two software programmes related to 6RA70 SCR drives, 2301D and EGCP. The crew is shown in practice how to properly set up a hyper serial link with the correct baud rate setting and serial port, for the laptop and how to download & upload a program from faulty equipment to the new 2301D and EGCP. A practical demonstration showed how to connect a laptop to the SIMOREG CM 6RA70 and download all the current parameters settings into the PC. It was also briefly explained how to read Errors & Alarms, using the PMU in the CM 6RA70 for easy diagnosis of faults. This was demonstrated in the office where they set up temporarily listed equipment for our training, due to components not having yet been fixed into the simulation panel.
Their future plan is to have an EOS complete with all instruments and equipment that would be used only as a simulator, plus several 2301D and EGCP instruments inbuilt on the panels for simulation, which will enable them to simultaneously be able to have practical drills for more students. Presently they have three full D/G sets which they use during their FAT and in case they do not have any EOS ready for this purpose then it is useless to go there.
During the two-day training course we were invited to a real American lunch. We wish to thank all the staff of EPD for their kind hospitality because we really felt at home.
Our newly built vessel, Bourbon Diamond, was in Singapore during the November-December period for installation of ROV equipment. It was requested by the charterers as a requirement to assist their FPSO in Nigeria. Installation of ROV equipment is a difficult project, and this one required from us, as ship managers, much preparation from our side. Finally, with the successful cooperation of all our team, the project was completed and the vessel departed for Nigeria.
HIPAP equipment, which is necessary for the control and operation of the ROV, was also installed at the same time.
I joined Bourbon Offshore Greenmar as Technical Superintendent at the beginning of November, and this project was not only a first for my new company but also a first for myself. It gave me a very good experience for such future projects and gave me the opportunity to visit my first Greenmar vessel, and allowed me to get to know the crew and vessel itself.
Vadim Popkov
Technical Superintendant
More than thirty officers and shore staff from Bourbon and Bourbon Offshore
Greenmar, representing eight nationalities, met on the 15 and 16 of October
at Divonne Les Bains, France, a gathering to highlight Bourbon standards
worldwide. A common standard : the guarantee of quality service worldwide.
Bourbon Offshore Greenmar is a multicultural company that manages vessels
under diverse flags with international crews from countries such as Croatia,
Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Argentina, The Philippines, Germany, and France.
The creation of a common standard of operations and safety is a key factor
in ensuring clients receive the same high quality of service worldwide.
In gathering together each year Masters, Chief Engineers, Marine Superintendents,
Port Engineers and office staff, Bourbon Offshore Greenmar is putting into
practice its commitment to the continuous updating and advancement of those
essential elements: future strategy, safety, environmental responsibility,
operational and technical management, purchasing and finance.
It has been a unique experience to witness the massive economic and industrial
growth of a nation on a first hand basis during our time in China. Our stay
in Ningbo, travelling everyday to the Zhejiang Shipyard, gave us an outlook
that would not normally be seen on the everyday tourist route.
Ningbo, a town that no one has ever heard of, is in fact a small city for
China. A mere six and a half million people inhabit this busy, bustling
metropolis.
The city has an air of prosperity, Rolls Royces and Lamborginis are evident,
BMWs are quite common, and it appears the bicycle no longer rules.
The citizens are chic and busy. The city looks as though it grows every
day as one looks out of the window.
On the other hand there are areas of tranquillity. Moon Lake in the center
of Ningbo is a pleasant place to stroll on a sunny Sunday afternoon. There
are numerous temples and shrines, antique markets and pagodas.
Our daily journey to the Zhejiang Shipyard from the city of Ningbo entailed
travelling for an hour and twenty minutes through a varied vista of Chinese
countryside. Once clear of the city we entered a mountainous, wooded region,
having to pass through numerous road tunnels.
Many people's view of China, in light of their rapid mechanized growth,
is of a country clouded in industrial pollution, this is not the case as
one moves from the cities into the rural areas.
As one drops down towards the coast, the landscape changes to agriculture
and finally to the shipyards.
The yards are impressive. Hulls, parts of accommodation, ship sections and
steel work everywhere. At meal times one is in danger of being swept away
by a tide of hungry Chinese. Shipyard lunches take some getting used to.
It has been a memorable stay in China but we are now anxious to take the
BOURBON DIAMOND to sea, our maiden voyage will be to HCMC, Vietnam and then
on to Singapore.
Captain Roger Reid
"One year without an LTI and without recordable accident, congratulations to all of you ! Let's continue this way to be the safest company to work with.
This month's news is the departure of two vessels the same day from the shipyard in China. The PUNTA JEREZ, heading to Mexico, and the BOURBON LIBERTY 108 heading to Singapore and then Saudi Arabia. This is a good example of what may be the rule next year: vessels delivered in a short period of time. This month the total personnel managed by BO Greenmar reached 500 and the number of vessels 21. This is a challenge for everyone, not only in the office but also for you on board. I would like everyone to understand the difficulties that can arise and seagoing personnel should be prepared for an effort on their part when requested to change their habitual rotation to meet newbuilding deliveries.
In order to cope with more vessels Julien Galiegue has joined the company as Junior Purchaser. Also new in the office are three apprentices: Jessica Juvet, Emmanuelle Vieille Girardet, and Julia Pariat. Welcome to our new colleagues.
A safe month of September to all !" Marc Remondière
July 2008
Bourbon Liberty 106 ready to depart from China for Saudi Arabia
BOG Vessels - Worldwide
June
2008
PSV Bourbon Liberty 104 arrived at Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia and went on hire to ZAMIL OFFSHORE. Zamil Offshore is installing a new single arm davit and FRC on the vessel and then she will be working out of Tanagip for ARAMCO.
FSIV Bourbon Axelle arrived safely in Nigeria from Dubai and she went straight on charter to ADDAX on the 13th of June.
PSV Bourbon Hidra is on hire again to SNEPCO as from the 5th. of June.
PSV Bourbon Atlantide, which was replacing Bourbon Hidra during her drydocking period, has, since the 5th of June, shifted to a new contract with AFREN ENERGY RESOURCES, still in Nigeria. This contract is for a few months only.
Surfer 2800, long awaited, finally arrived in Qatar where she went on hire to TOTAL on the 2nd of June and she will work together with SURFER 220 out of HALUL Island.
Roca Partida and El Mezquital transiting the Panama Canal during the mobilization trip from the shipyard of Yangzou in China to Tampico in Mexico.
On the 20th of June, at 15h38, the Bourbon Liberty 106 was delivered from Dayang shipyard. The crew joined the vessel and after few days familiarization with the assistance of Electrical Superintendent M. Separovic, the vessel left the shipyard on the 25th for Saudi Arabia with a short call at Singapore.
Bourbon Hidra was docked at CARENA shipyard from the 18th of May to 1st of June and was back in operation on the 5th of June. Many thanks to all the crew for their work and support during this time.
