Hervé Lapierre: Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (France)

“We’d had a lot of previous experience with dynamic positioned vessels, both cable layers and seismic research ships… But my real frustration was that the DP operations are basically a disaster in terms of fuel consumption and efficiency,” said Hervé Lapierre, head of newbuilding at Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group (LDA). “It’s due to the high level of redundancy required to keep on station.”

“It’s not just the equipment and the vessels that are still changing; even the way they are used varies between manufacturers and developers. This hasn’t settled, hasn’t stabilised yet.”

“We’d had a lot of previous experience with dynamic positioned vessels, both cable layers and seismic research ships… But my real frustration was that the DP operations are basically a disaster in terms of fuel consumption and efficiency,” said Hervé Lapierre, head of newbuilding at Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group (LDA). “It’s due to the high level of redundancy required to keep on station.”