Fairmount Sherpa just finished an eight month charter with Murphy Oil in Malaysia, where the big tug assisted in towing and station keeping of the Kike FPSO.

Meanwhile, Fairmount Alpine towed the big jack-up rig Ensco100 from the Gulf of Guinea to Rotterdam, where it joined another Fairmount class tug, Fairmount Glacier, in towing Sevan Drilling’s FPSO Hummingbird from Rotterdam to location at the Chestnut field in the North Sea. On location, the two tugs also installed the FPSO. The same two tugs were immediately needed for another large project, mobilising the Pentagon type SSDR Zagreb 1 from Abidjan to the US Gulf of Mexico.

Fairmount Glacier is currently towing the world’s largest crane barge, Heerema’s Thialf, from Luanda to Trinidad. The tug will then mobilise to the US Gulf of Mexico in order to pick up SSDR Zagreb 1 for towage to Mexico. Sister tug Fairmount Alpine  is mobilising to Sharjah in order to tow the jack-up rig GSF 103 to the Gulf of Suez.

Fairmount Summit  towed the construction vessel Hermod from Rotterdam to Malabo and, after a short period of local work, mobilised to Luanda to pick up MSV Regalia.

Prosafe’s largest semi-submersible accommodation and construction support rig needed a tow to Bergen, Norway. Fairmount Summit  then towed Saipem’s pipe lay barge Castoro Sei from Rotterdam to the Mediterranean, then mobilised to southern Spain for the towage of the semi-submersible barge Giant IV to Rotterdam.

Fairmount Expedition recently performed local towages of various jack-up rigs in the Far East before towing SSDR Sedco 702 from Singapore to Nigeria. Upon arrival, the tug immediately picked up SSDR Noble Homer Ferrington for a tow from Nigeria to the Ivory Coast. As a member of the ISU, Fairmount Marine is also active in the field of salvage.

Fairmount Expedition recently towed Royal Boskalis Westminster's badly damaged mega-hopper dredger WD Fairway to Singapore after it was damaged in a collision off China. Fairmount Alpine also assisted a vessel in need when the containership MSC Fribourg suffered engine problems. Fairmount Alpine retrieved the large vessel in the North Atlantic and towed it to Ponta Delgada in the Azores.

Looking ahead, Fairmount Marine has won a number of other prestigious contracts. Starting this summer is a job for Aker Marine Contractors which involves no less than six vessels. Fairmount has also secured contracts for towages of the large semi-submersible rig ENSCO 8500 and the hull of FPSO MPF-01, which are currently under construction in the Far East. Two Fairmount Marine tugs will be mobilised for each of these tows.