AHTS vessels: tight supply makes for North Sea feast or famine

摘要

A"feast or a famine" - that is how Seabroker analyst Paul Dear described conditions among anchor-handling vessel owners operating in the North Sea, during the Annual Offshore Support Journal Conference, Awards & Exhibition in London on 6 February. To drive home his point, Mr Dear told delegates that during the first three weeks of 2019, six drill rig movements pushed spot day rates for a large anchor-handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel from £9,500 (US$12,270) to £65,000 in the span of a two-week period. A week later day rates had dipped again to below £10,000.