Two contractors are slugging it out in a hard-fought battle to provide a newbuild floating production, storage and offloading vessel for US supermajor Chevron’s challenging Rosebank project on the UK Atlantic Margin.
Market watchers told Upstream that South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Singapore-based SembCorp Marine are the last players standing in the Rosebank contest, with talks said to be at a “delicate” stage.