Providing broker and commercial advisory services to companies involved in offshore vessel procurement and business transactions relating to new and existing offshore field development projects.
The Group has an extensive global network of business contacts
and an unrivalled track record in drilling, production storage and
transportation vessel transactions. With strong commerical and
technical backgrounds in the offshore and shipping industries, the
Group operates from nine global offices.
Our resources
enable us to put together bespoke teams to meet our clients' needs
on a project-by-project basis.
Erik Arthur
Clarksons Platou
Offshore
The team specialises in FPSOs, MOPUs, TLPs, drilling units,
FSOs, combined drilling and production units, shuttle tankers, FLNG
vessels, regasification units and accomodation units. Our
clients includes oil companies, contractors, construction yards and
investors active in the offshore oil and gas business.
Our broking services cover newbuilding, conversion, chartering,
sale & purchase and financing transactions and typically
involve a combination of the following activities:
- Identifying, developing and proposing new business
opportunities
- Introducing new vessel designs to the market and facilitating
commercial proposals based on such designs
- Vessel and yard market screening and selection
recommendations
- Preparation of commercial proposals and offers
- Draft contracts & agreements
- Negotiations support, commercial advice, mediation and
assistance with transaction closing
- Managing and facilitating formal yard and vessel tenders
- Managing and facilitating formal vessel sales processes
Sale and Purchase
The team has extensive experience and an unrivalled track record
in the sale and purchase of FPSOs, MOPUs, FSOs, shuttle tankers and
tankers for conversion to FPSO and FSO and has concluded
transactions involving most of the key global players in these
markets.
Newbuilding & conversions
Our knowledge and experience of all types of construction
contracts types from smaller scale reimbursable modifications
projects to large scale billion dollar turn-key EPC projects has
benefitted oil companies, owners and offshore yards. We
have a succesful track record in such construction projects
involving most of the key offshore construction yards in Korea,
Singapore, China, Japan, USA and Middle East.
Chartering
Specialising in all types of chartering contracts from shuttle
tanker time charters, bareboat charters and COA contracts to
complex FPSO lease and operate operations and maintenance
contracts.
Valuations
We provide market value assessments for most vessel types
involved in offshore field development including units on contract,
charter free and in distressed situations. We are widely
acknowledged by most owners, international banks and financial
institutions active in these markets as leading experts in this
field.
Combining
our broker service capabilities with our market knowledge and
expertise in all commercial and contractual aspects of offshore
vessel procurement, commercial advisory is key to our clients'
decision making
Piers Middleton
Clarksons Platou Offshore
Our commerical advisory service covers all aspects of the
offshore vessel capital projects procurement processes. The scope
of services we provide typically covers a combination of the
following activities:
- Procurement strategies and contract strategies
- Concept selection recommendations
- Vessel market screening and selection recommendations
- Yard market screening and selection recommendations
- Procurement process recommendations and timelines
- Ownership structures, commercial models, and contracting
strategy
- Advice on key commercial issues for successful vessel
construction, ownership and operations
- Advice, recommendations and facilitation of tailor made
financing solutions
- Market value assessments
- Market intelligence, reports and analysis
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