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Por Onde Anda?
Career moves and appointments across the offshore market.
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Por onde anda? Atlantic Dama
Built in 1974, ATLANTIC DAMA (IMO 7382421) is 52 years old and still active under the Argentine flag. The 950 GT, 1,399 DWT offshore tug/supply vessel is owned and commercially managed by Paraná Logística S.A. since 2018. Her recent record is more relevant than her age. In 2023, she supported preparatory work for Google’s Firmina […]
Por Onde Anda? MSC Silvana VIII
MSC Silvana VIII arrived at Jinhai Heavy Industry, in the Zhoushan ship-repair area, on June 22. Nineteen days later, as Typhoon Bavi reached Zhejiang, the 8,401-TEU containership left the repair berth. It would never return to commercial service. Built in 2006 by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in South Korea, the Cyprus-flagged MSC Silvana VIII, […]
Por Onde Anda? Armada 7807
Before arriving in Brazil, Armada 7807 had already completed offshore campaigns in Guyana and Colombia, including AUV survey operations for ExxonMobil in the Stabroek Block. Delivered in 2023, Armada 7807, IMO 9924302, is one of Ocean Infinity’s 78-metre offshore support vessels. Flying the Singapore flag and classed by DNV, the vessel was developed around lean-crewed […]
Por Onde Anda? Bram Force
More than a year after suffering a major engine room fire, Bram Force has returned to offshore operations in Brazil, once again working in the Campos Basin. Delivered by Navship in 2017, the Brazilian-flagged AHTS is part of Bram Offshore, the Brazilian subsidiary of Edison Chouest Offshore. On 8 January 2025, while operating near Petrobras’ […]
Por onde anda? Haidar
At around 8:45 a.m. on October 6, 2015, the Haidar, moored portside at Pier 302 in the Port of Vila do Conde, Barcarena, Pará, lost stability, listed and eventually sank. On board were nearly 5,000 live cattle bound for Venezuela. Although there were no human casualties, the accident became one of the worst socio-environmental disasters […]
Por Onde Anda? MPSV Lagunero
Built for high-complexity campaigns and multipurpose support, the high-spec Mexican asset faces its most turbulent period yet, far from the offshore fields she was expected to serve and under judicial custody in Guanabara Bay. The Vessel The MPSV Lagunero (IMO 9761736) was delivered in 2018 as one of the modern centerpieces of the Mexican offshore […]
Por Onde Anda? – Carmen III
The original name was Princess Ihuaku. The vessel was intended for Tidewater. The plan was for delivery in the early 2010s. But when the vessel was finally delivered in 2017, the offshore market was already a very different one, and her identity was also about to change. Carmen III began as hull NT8002, part of […]
Por onde anda? Norksan Copacabana
The name Skandi Copacabana became associated with an important phase of offshore support navigation in Brazil. Before operating under that name, the vessel was registered as Norskan Copacabana. Built in 2005 at Estaleiro Ilha, in Rio de Janeiro, she emerged during a period of expansion in the Brazilian offshore market, when demand for support vessels […]
Por onde anda? MSC Baltic III
Por Onde Anda? – MSC Baltic III The date was February 2025. The MSC Baltic III was sailing off the west coast of Newfoundland, Canada, when it reported a loss of power near the entrance to Bay of Islands. Sea and weather conditions were adverse. Unable to secure an anchor, the containership eventually ran aground […]
Por onde anda? Bravante VI
The former Brazilian PSV now operating as a Service Operation Vessel in the United States. The Bravante VI (IMO 9645621) followed a path that differs from most of the vessels featured in this series. Built in 2014 by Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Florida, the vessel was delivered to Boldini S.A., a company of Brazil’s Bravante […]
Por onde anda? Vega Chaser
Some vessels carry more than an IMO number. They carry the memory of a market being built. Vega Chaser is one of them. Back in 2013, through the former Westshore, we were directly involved in the successful delivery of a series of vessels contracted by Petrobras under the newly created Vega Offshore platform in Brazil. […]
Por onde anda? LAB 152
Not every offshore vessel leaves behind a trail that is easy to follow. Some spend years supporting offshore operations without attracting much attention. No headlines. No major contract announcements. No spotlight. LAB 152 was one of them. Built in 2008, the PSV entered service during one of the most significant expansion periods ever experienced by […]
Por Onde Anda? CBO Anna Gabriella
By Romulo Bacchiega During the rapid growth of Brazil’s offshore industry in the 2000s, offshore support vessels became an essential part of the country’s operational backbone. CBO Anna Gabriella was one of them. Built in 2006 under IMO number 9364306, the vessel emerged during one of the most important expansion periods ever experienced by Brazil’s […]
Por Onde Anda? Skandi Amazonas
By Romulo Bacchiega A vessel that deserves more respect than speculation Some vessels become known because they disappear from the radar, change names, lose purpose, or end up as footnotes in the offshore market. Skandi Amazonas is the opposite. This is not a story about a forgotten vessel. It is a story about one of […]
Por Onde Anda? Petrobras P-16
She had no disaster named after her.No inquiry. No memorial. No court case running twenty years later.Just steel. Just sea. Just oil — for decades, in 300 meters of South Atlantic waters. Platform P-16 — Petrobras XVI — was a semi-submersible of the pioneering Roman-numeral generation that quietly built Brazil’s offshore industry. Processing up to […]
Por onde anda? FPSO P-35
There are offshore units that operate quietly…And there are those that, even in silence, define an era. P-35 was one of them. For years, far beyond the horizon, she remained anchored in the Campos Basin, transforming crude from deep waters into one of Brazil’s most strategic assets: energy. Today, after more than two decades in […]
Por onde anda? Maersk Maker
For those who follow Brazil’s offshore support vessel market, Maersk Maker is a familiar name. The vessel has now undergone both a change of identity and a shift in management. So where is she now, and what sits behind this latest move? Previously tracked by us as an Ice Class 1A AHTS, the vessel has […]
Por onde anda? Tonelagem da Galáxia
By WSB Advisors As the market’s primary reference for fleet data—also reflected in our WSB One Database—we are frequently challenged by clients to explain not only where vessels are, but under what structures they remain where they are. That is precisely what happened following our recent article on Atlas Z. As readers and users looked […]
Por onde anda? Astro Tupi
Where is she now? — Atlas Z (ex-Astro Tupi): One Vessel, Two Structures By WSB Advisors Much like the recent case of Astro CMT Matos—reborn as Seastar Virtus while raising unresolved questions around overlapping commercial and registry positioning—another case involving Astromaritima – em Recuperação Judicial now comes into focus. This time, the vessel is the […]
Por onde anda? Milan Tide — The Resurrection (and the Registry Puzzle)
By WSB Advisors The return of Milan Tide, now Seastar Virtus, should have been a straightforward story: a well-built PSV, revived, reintroduced and ready to operate again. It turns out the story is not quite that simple. Following our publication, Astromarítima Navegação S.A. – em Recuperação Judicial approached us demanding the rectification of a specific […]