awards shipowner of the year
Hornbeck Offshore specialises in operating modern, high-spec tonnage
Winning shipowner is investing in the future
companies, has shown excellence in the operation of its ship(s) and has, in the past year, demonstrated an exemplary record of achievement in the management of one or more of the following: • business development • safety • quality • efficiency, and • environmental sustainability.
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The shortlist for the 2012 Shipowner of the Year Award included: • Ezra Holdings, which achieved revenues of more than half a billion dollars in the financial year ending August 2011 • Farstad Shipping, which recently opened a new simulation and training centre in Australia • Technip, which recently completed the acquisition of Global Industries in the US, and • Hornbeck Offshore.
Hornbeck Offshore Services provides marine transportation services to exploration and production, oilfield service, offshore
28 I Annual Offshore Support Journal Conference and Awards 2012
ffshore Support Journal’s Shipowner of the Year Award is presented to a company which, above all other
The Shipowner of the Year award at the Annual Offshore Support Journal Conference went to Hornbeck Offshore, one of the best known and highest profile companies in the US sector of the Gulf of Mexico
construction, and US military customers. The company operates in two segments, upstream and downstream; the upstream segment owns and operates US-flagged offshore support vessels that
the Gulf of Mexico, Hornbeck Offshore has probably enjoyed the highest profile in the last 12 months. Well known for its technically advanced, high-spec fleet, it also played a major role in the response to the Macondo (Deepwater Horizon) oil spill in 2012, and successfully took on the US government in a legal battle against the moratorium on deepwater drilling. Towards the end of 2011, Hornbeck announced that it was once again investing heavily in new offshore vessels, and in November 2011 announced details of contracts for the construction of 16 high-specification OSVs. This
support deepwater and ultra-deepwater exploration, development, production, construction, inspection, maintenance, repair, and enhanced oil recovery in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
The same segment also owns work-class ROVs, multipurpose support vessels (MPSVs), and a shore base facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. As of 31 December 2011, Hornbeck Offshore Services owned and operated 46 active new generation OSVs and four MPSVs. Of all the support vessel companies in
the company’s eighth newbuild vessel programme since its inception in 1997, and its fifth newbuild programme involving technologically advanced OSVs.
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The company has contracted with VT Halter Marine in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and with Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Florida, for the construction at each yard of eight 300-class vessels with options to build additional vessels of the type should future market conditions warrant. The company’s first decision with respect to the exercise of options will need to be made in
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