OSV's - Global and still exciting

摘要

Tidewater, the largest and still pioneering offshore service vessel (OSV) owner, put its first pure OSV into service in 1956. The development of the sector in the intervening fifty-six years until now, as in many parts of the maritime industry, has been phenomenal. Interestingly, much of the OSV sector has come out of the fishing industry and Tidewater is no exception. Fortunately for its participants, as the fishing industry in the developed world has declined the offshore oil and gas sector has flourished. Even more interestingly, the kinds of vessels used and their operational techniques have many convenient similarities. Technological and operational transfers have been reasonably painless.