Maersk Supply Service has won a contract from Cenovus Energy to provide a newbuilding field support vessel in Canadian waters of the North Atlantic.
The Danish offshore vessel owner said in social media posts that it will build the vessel at Crist shipyard in Gdynia, Poland.
The ship will work on the White Rose oilfield off the province of Newfoundland & Labrador.
Caroline Knox, a spokeswoman for Maersk Supply, said it is a multi-year contract, without providing the exact length or the value of the deal.
To be delivered in 2027, the 110-metre ice-classed vessel will feature a 995L SBC hull design by MMC Ship Design & Marine Consulting. It will have DP3 dynamic positioning capacity and a walk-to-work gangway, with a capacity of 164 persons on board, Maersk Supply said on Instagram.
Knox confirmed that Maersk Supply, a unit of Copenhagen-listed AP Moller-Maersk, ordered the ship specifically for the Cenovus deal. She declined to disclose the price of the shipbuilding contract.
With a 60% stake in the oilfield, Calgary-based Cenovus is the operator of White Rose, where a floating production, storage and offloading vessel is already operating.
The West White Rose Project involves a fixed drilling rig tied back to the 130,000 barrels per day FPSO SeaRose (built 2004), which is undergoing upgrades at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in the UK.
Among marine contractors that have been awarded work on the project, Floatel International is providing the accommodation support vessel, while Allseas Group is responsible for topside installation, according to Cenovus.
Norway’s Aker Solutions is working on the concrete gravity structure tow-out and installation, as well as onshore commissioning, and offshore hookup and commissioning
China Cosco Shipping is responsible for topside transportation.
TechnipFMC has the contract for the subsea tie-back system, while a partnership of Deme and Jan de Nul is handling dredging.
Van Oord is handling marine rock installation.
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