International Maritime Associates, Inc.     |   home Offshore Oil and Gas Sector   |   Transportation Sector   |   Ports   |   Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry   |   Technology Sector and Manufacturers   |   Clients Consulting Services Performed in the Offshore Oil and Gas Sector IMA provides a wide range of planning and advisory services to firms in the offshore oil and gas sector. We have been active in this sector since the 1970s. Our clients have included oil majors, offshore equipment and system manufactures, fabricators, construction firms and lending institutions. The following consulting assignments illustrate our range of activities in this sector. assessed developments and policies impacting future ethanol demand and supply in the US analyzed capex trends for FPSOs and profiled differences in capex between leased and owned units profiled the redeployment history, lease end and likely field end dates and past trends in lease extensions for FPSOs and FSOs analyzed the potential for utilizing modular gas to liquid plants on FPSO vessels to tap stranded gas on offshore fields identified LNG regasification projects in North America and South America and evaluated their potential to proceed to development identified construction/lay barges that could be acquired for projects in Asia and evaluated the option of building new equipment identified deepwater prospects in the Gulf of Mexico with near term development potential and assessed the likely production/export solution analyzed the demand/supply balance in the worldwide FPSO market likely to exist at the end of 2010 asessed the potential for transporting gas via pipeline from Iran to India, prepared for a major Italian offshore construction company evaluated the feasibilty of shuttle tanker offtake as an export solution on remote ultra-deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico market analysis to a consortium of Norwegian offshore oil and gas equipment suppliers, engineering firms and fabricators (2000 through 2006) analyzed underlying market drivers influencing deepwater production and forecast requirements for floating production systems evaluated possible financing facilities for offshore oil and gas projects, prepared for a major offshore construction contractor evaluated the advantages and issues related to utilizing submerged turret technology for offshore loading and floating production analyzed the basis for setting contract rates for FPSO vessels and compared rates for vessels currently in use assessed future requirements for deepwater drilling equipment, construction vessels, shuttle tankers and floating production facilities analyzed constraints and devloped a plan of action for utilizing non-U.S. documented heavy lift and construction vessels on the U.S. outer shelf developed a detailed business plan for establishing an offshore production module fabrication facility on the west coast of Norway, prepared for a consortium of Norwegian shipbuilders assesed future requirements for propulsion and maneuvering systems in offshore drilling equipment, construction vessels and support vessels prepared a detailed feasibility study of utilizing barge mounted plants for methanol and ethanol production benchmarked the relative competitiveness of building floating methanol plants in the U.S. and Japan evaluated the feasibility of utilizing surplus VLCCs for floating oil storage as part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve prepared more than a half dozen market positioning studies and business plans for shipbuilders considering entry into offshore equipment fabrication assessed the feasibilty of using a newly developed portable turbopump for emergency oil recovery of grounded tankers --- IMA received an award for technical excellence from NASA for this study analyzed the commercial applications for a tethered floating breakwater and evaluated the cost and benefits associated with the system IMA has prepared over two dozen multi-client reports on the floating production market over the past ten years. The reports, published at four month intervals, track business developments in the floater sector and forecast future requirements for new systems. They have become a standard reference document in the industry.