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he conversion of a Turkish- retro? t of his vessel.

made chemical tanker and its “We would like to have oil companies retro? tting with a promising as partners, to have closer dialogue with new energy-saving propulsion them, for sure,” said Uksnoy, adding,

T system in 2013 suggested Uksnoy Ship- “We see the market.” Yet, both he and his ping might not be like other owner-man- chairman tell us the goal is “to operate agers of offshore service vessels (OSV). like other OSVs.”

The ship, the 90-foot Rig Adromeda The market is the huge new Barents and its permanent-magnet propulsion Sea arctic oil province north of Norway from Inpower have made it possible for as well as East Africa’s giant, untapped

Uksnoy to ply the more remote offshore Rovuma Basin off Tanzania and Mozam- support markets — the domain of seismic bique. Compatriot oil company Statoil vessels operating in virgin offshore acre- — a giant local contact and charterer ex- age — with a special offer for survey out- traordinaire of high-spec Norway-based ? ts and oil companies paying for surveys OSVs — is active in the Barents and soon and an OSV presence. to be very active off Tanzania. Anadarko,

Uksnoy chief exec Oystein Uksnoy can another oil major in Mozambique, is al- now tell oil companies and geophysics ready an Uksnoy customer in the Rovu- surveyors that he’s compliant with up- ma, where other big oil companies have coming energy ef? ciency rules for ves- recently installed themselves. In these sels; that the larger tanks in his converted prohibitively remote areas, it can be sev- ? eet have made it cheaper to keep other eral days steam between oil? eld and de-

OSVs on hand, and that he has a lower pot, and today’s deepwater provinces are carbon footprint because of the Inpower increasingly distant. OSVs must keep up

Uksnoy’s core activity of “following seismic vessels globally” is part of a business that earned $18.1m in revenues in 2013. Pic- tured, EMGS seismic vessel Polar Duchess receives a fuel line.

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