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Time passes. To keep up
with everything that is happening in the offshore world we would have to
employ full time journalists, and then I suppose we would have to charge
for the service. We do our best and we are still free (although some would
say - just cheap). This is an excuse for not remembering when Seacor
disposed of the Stirling Islay and the Stirling Jura to BUE, but we think
it was in 2003. The ships had their upperworks removed and they were towed
through the Russian canal system from the Black Sea to the Caspian, where
they are now employed at what they do best.
On having a look at this
company in 2009 I found that it had at some time been
purchased by a company called Renaissance Services who
operate the Islay and Jura and a number of other vessels in
the Caspian out of Azerbaijan and Kazakstan. Developments
are still taking place in this organisation now called
"Topaz Marine".
We are aware that there are
a number of vessels in the Caspian fleet but we don't know
what they all are, but we've done what we can. Because of
the change of location of the whole fleet, and the fact that BUE is now owned
by a Middle Eastern company we have relocated its fleet list
to "MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST"
The Company now seems to be
called BUE Caspian, a wholly owned subsidiary of Topaz
Marine and it may own more ships than are displayed here,
but there seems to be no information about. (8th November
2012)
At the time of the 2013 review
BUE seems to have been fully absorbed into Topaz
Energy and so BUE are now history and the story continues on
the new Topaz page (Updated 15/11/13).
Reviewed 28th January 2014 |