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THE SEABROKERS MONTHLY MARKET REPORT JULY 2018 ENGULFED BY THE TIDE: TIDEWATER AND GULFMARK TO COMBINE CONTENTS 3 OSV MARKET ROUND-UP ABOUT SEABROKERS GROUP 6 OSV AVAILABILITY, RATES & The Seabrokers Group was established in 1982. We provide a unique and varied range of services to UTILISATION - NORTH SEA clients. The Seabrokers Group has an experienced workforce within Shipbroking, Real Estate, Facili- 7 MONTHLY OSV SPOT RATES - ties Management, Construction, Sea Surveillance, Harbour Cranes and Safe Lifting Operations. NORTH SEA Our head office is located in Stavanger, but we also have offices in Aberdeen, Bergen and Rio de 8 FEATURE VESSEL Janeiro. The Seabrokers Group is different – and we are 9 OSV NEWBUILDINGS, CONVERSIONS, proud of this fact. Our information, experience and knowledge provide us with the ability to perform SALE & PURCHASE in our diverse business areas. 11 SUBSEA Seabrokers Chartering AS and Seabrokers Ltd are certified by DNV GL in line with Management System Standard ISO 9001:2008. 14 RENEWABLES 15 RIGS 16 CONUNDRUM CORNER & DUTY PHONES SHIPBROKING REAL ESTATE SECURALIFT FACILITY MANAGEMENT Production and Administration: Seabrokers Ltd, Aberdeen SEA SURVEILLANCE FOUNDATIONS For your free copy of Seabreeze, email: YACHTING HARBOUR CRANES [email protected] The Seabreeze Monthly Market Report OUR OFFICES: is distributed worldwide through STAVANGER BERGEN SKIEN our offices in Aberdeen, Stavanger and Rio de Janeiro. ABERDEEN RIO DE JANEIRO © Seabrokers Group 2018 www.seabrokers-group.com OSV MARKET ROUND-UP OWNERS READY FOR TIDEWATER AND GULFMARK TO COMBINE HIGHER RATES The Boards of Directors at of the combined company will be Tidewater Inc and GulfMark approximately USD 1.25 billion. July turned out to be yet Offshore Inc have unanimously As part of this process, USD 100 another exasperating month approved a definitive agreement million of existing GulfMark for AHTS owners in the North to combine the two companies. debt is expected to be repaid. Sea. Summer is here... this is The transaction is expected This will enable Tidewater when they are expecting to to close in the fourth quarter to maintain its pro forma net make their money, and it just of 2018, with the combined debt of approximately USD 100 hasn’t happened so far this year. company operating under the million, with pro forma available Average spot AHTS rates over Tidewater brand under the liquidity of more than USD 300 the last few months have varied leadership of current Tidewater million. from GBP 8,500 - 17,000, which CEO John Rynd. makes pretty grim reading for With a fleet of circa 245 vessels, owners (see p.7 for details). GulfMark shareholders will the combined company will have The market has been impacted receive 1.1 shares of common the industry’s largest fleet, and because a general expectation for Tidewater stock for each share the transaction is expected to improved trading conditions this of GulfMark common stock held. generate cost synergies of around year persuaded several owners The equity market capitalisation USD 30 million. to reactivate vessels from layup, or to relocate tonnage from other regions, thereby increasing the VESSEL VALUES ON THE RISE... SLOWLY competition for work. As the offshore crisis emerged 1990s, Tord Stemland, stated However, while charterers in 2014, banks still had to assess “we have definitely stopped have been enjoying the low their capital commitments decreasing our valuations for rates recently, perhaps they against the value of the assets modern vessels and are now should brace for a changing of being financed and used as looking North instead of South. the tide, with a long list of rig collateral. And in the depth of the As far as we can see, this will be moves scheduled for August. crisis, shipbrokers lowered their the direction for the foreseeable The market has already shown vessel valuations in response future, unless the forthcoming signs of tightening, and the to the declining activity. In this restructuring between owners long-suffering AHTS owners respect, Seabrokers was one of and lenders produce significant are poised to capitalise if there is the first offshore shipbrokers to numbers of stranded assets.” The an opportunity to pick up some start lowering ship values. methodology for charter-free more lucrative fixtures. valuations between a willing But in view of higher oil prices, seller and a willing buyer is In the PSV market, owners have and increased rig and vessel based upon three fundamental experienced further marginal tender activity, Seabrokers are pillars – newbuilding prices of improvements to trading of the opinion that the bottom similar tonnage (age adjusted), conditions. July drew this year’s of the market is behind us and second-hand transactions of highest average spot rate of we are now raising the values similar tonnage (age adjusted if GBP 9,360 for large vessels, and of large and modern tonnage, needed), and Seabrokers’ opinion owners will be hoping this will albeit in small steps. Seabrokers’ of the charter market for similar continue throughout the summer. lead valuation analyst since the tonnage going forward 6 months. SEABREEZE 3 OSV MARKET ROUND-UP GLOBAL FIXTURES FOR SOLSTAD FARSTAD In further signs of an improving market, SolstadFarstad has picked up new term fixtures in various regions around the globe in recent weeks. In the eastern hemisphere, AHTS vessel Far Statesman has been contracted for a five-month period to support Eni with a deepwater drilling programme with semisubmersible Scarabeo 7 offshore Indonesia. The charter commenced in July. In Oceania, AHTS vessels Far Senator (pictured c/o O Halland) and Far Saracen, and PSV Sea Cooper Energy but will remain Elsewhere, BP Egypt has retained Swan, will continue supporting with the Monarch when it moves PSV Sea Swift for another year, semisubmersible rig Ocean onto an ExxonMobil contract, and Equinor Brasil has awarded Monarch offshore Australia. The potentially keeping them busy three-month extensions to PSVs vessels have been working for until the first quarter of 2019. Far Scotsman and Far Serenade. MØKSTER VESSELS STAY WITH AKER BP Simon Møkster Shipping has least October 2018. received contract extensions with Aker BP that will see two of Both vessels were built to the its large PSVs firmly committed STX (VARD) PSV 09L CD design, offshore Norway for at least and delivered in 2011 and 2012 three more months. The Stril respectively. They have a length Orion and Stril Polar (pictured) of 93.5m, breadth of 19.0m and will now be kept busy until at deck area of more than 1,000m². NEW DENMARK CONTRACT FOR CLIPPER Havila Shipping has entered since mid-2014, and will now into a new contract with Total continue in a similar role going for a six-month charter of its forward but with Total since its PSV Havila Clipper offshore acquisition of Maersk Oil. The Denmark. Clipper (pictured c/o O Halland) is a Havyard 832 PSV. She is now The vessel has been working for firmly committed until at least Maersk Oil offshore Denmark January 2019. 4 SEABREEZE OSV MARKET ROUND-UP PEMEX DISHES OUT TERM FIXTURES PEMEX has awarded a raft of new contracts in recent weeks, securing no fewer than eight Mexican-flagged vessels on multi-year charters. According to IHS-Petrodata, the vessels were contracted for a period of 905 days, starting in July, that will see each of them committed offshore Mexico until the end of 2020. Tidewater was the recipient of three PSV fixtures, for the Greenwood Tide (pictured c/o M Prendergast), Hebert Tide and Lousteau Tide. Mantenimiento Express The eighth and final contract Maritimo for PSV Seacor Pride; award went to Grupo TMM, for The other successful parties were Marinsa de Mexico for PSV an equivalent 905-day contract, Administradores Navieros del Atalaya; and Naviera Bourbon but this time for an AHTS vessel, Golfo for PSV NN Algeiba; for PSV Cabo Rojo. the Isla Santa Cruz. CNR KEEPS K LINE PSV CNR International has exercised supporting operations at the a one-year option on its contract Ninian field in the northern with K Line PSV KL Brevikfjord. North Sea. The Brevikfjord, This extension will keep the delivered in 2010, was built vessel occupied in the UK sector to the STX (VARD) PSV 06 until at least July 2019. The KL CD design. She has a length of Brevikfjord has been working 94.9m, a breadth of 20.0m and a for CNR since July 2016; she is deck area of 1,100m². CONTENDER FOR ENQUEST AND TAQA EnQuest Heather Ltd and TAQA with two further one-year Bratani Ltd have awarded a options available. She will be contract to North Star Shipping providing emergency response for a multi-year charter with cover at EnQuest’s Heather ERRV Grampian Contender in field and TAQA’s Cormorant the UK sector of the North Sea. Alpha platform. The Grampian The vessel has been contracted Contender is a 2006-built IMT for a firm period of two years 948 ERRV. SEABREEZE 5 OSV RATES & UTILISATION JULY 2018 - DAILY NORTH SEA OSV AVAILABILITY PSV 2018 PSV 2017 AHTS 2018 AHTS 2017 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 RATES & UTILISATION NORTH SEA SPOT AVERAGE UTILISATION JULY 2018 TYPE JUL 2018 JUN 2018 MAY 2018 APR 2018 MAR 2018 FEB 2018 MED PSV 58% 72% 64% 57% 58% 56% LARGE PSV 80% 82% 75% 83% 74% 76% MED AHTS 58% 44% 46% 63% 55% 23% LARGE AHTS 59% 58% 56% 61% 60% 61% NORTH SEA AVERAGE RATES JULY 2018 AVERAGE RATE AVERAGE RATE CATEGORY % CHANGE MINIMUM MAXIMUM JUL 2018 JUL 2017 SUPPLY DUTIES PSVS < 900M2 £8,275 £10,271 -19.43% £4,500 £18,650 SUPPLY DUTIES PSVS > 900M2 £9,360 £9,709 -3.59% £5,500 £18,666 AHTS DUTIES AHTS < 22,000 BHP £12,303 £38,293 -67.87% £5,500 £30,000 AHTS DUTIES AHTS > 22,000 BHP £14,112 £29,457 -52.09% £7,000 £29,865 SPOT MARKET ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES JULY 2018 ARRIVALS - NORTH SEA SPOT DEPARTURES - NORTH SEA SPOT PACIFIC DOVE EX WEST AFRICA PACIFIC DOVE MEDITERRANEAN SKANDI SAIGON EX MEDITERRANEAN PACIFIC LEADER WEST AFRICA SKANDI SKANSEN WEST AFRICA UNION PRINCESS WEST AFRICA * Vessels arriving in or departing from the North Sea term/layup market are not included here.