Company Profile

DMC (Dixon Marine Consulting Ltd) was established in 1997 as a specialist Shipbroking and Marine Consulting company, with a particular focus on subsea intervention and project support vessels, and projects including DP tonnage, accommodation support craft and work barges. The company's principle activities remain divided fairly equally between Shipbroking and Consulting. Our shipbroking activities include the hire and sale & purchase of hyperbaric equipment as well as vessels, and are divided into the following main elements:-

Shipbroking:

• Vessel & Barge Chartering
• Vessel & Barge Sale & Purchase
• Diving Systems
  
• Marine Equipment Rental and Sale & Purchase

Our Consulting activities include both technical and commercial consulting and fall into the following main categories:-

• Vessel Market Analysis, Marketing, Planning and Commercial Strategies
• Technical & Operational Problem Solving
• Project Management
• Dive System Sale & Purchase
• Manuals, Procedures & Guidance on Working Practices
• Tender Preparation
• Vessel Sale & Purchase and Charter Rate Evaluation

Our client base includes offshore operators, fellow brokers and consultants, ship owners and contractors.

DMC is based in Norfolk in the UK and operates on an international basis. The company is presently involved in Shipbroking or Consulting activities in most of the offshore oilfield locations around the globe. DMC operates on a 'round the clock - year round' basis and we can always be contacted on the given contact numbers.

Subsea Intervention Support Vessels & Equipment. Specification & Procurement

With a background in both marine consulting and ship & equipment broking, and also with a specific focus on sub-sea intervention support vessels and equipment, DMC Ltd have provided consulting and project management support to clients looking to procure vessels with sub-sea intervention tasks as a primary role, in one form or another. This might start with specifying suitable new-build designs or identifying existing vessels which might suit the technical objectives for the vessel. Alternatively, if a support vessel has already been acquired, then DMC have been used to assist in specifying and sourcing the required sub-sea intervention equipment, and at times this has also included sourcing suitably experienced contractors to provide the intervention services. Typically this will be Diving or ROV services, but this has also included well intervention projects.

Examples of projects that fall into this category which DMC Ltd have been involved with are as follows:-

Bibby Line - Dive Support Vessel Bibby Sapphire: Providing the owners with general design and specification advice, and procuring the components for a twin-bell 18 man saturation diving system. Procuring the engineering services required to design the system installation.

Deepwater recovery facility for a European nation Navy: Providing the military department with design criteria for the specification of a suitable remote intervention system. Locating a suitable international partner to assist a local engineering company design and fabricate the remote intervention system.

Well intervention project #01: Providing a prospective well intervention contractor with the optimum design criteria for a suitable well intervention support vessel. Sourcing a suitable vessel.

Well intervention project #02: Performing a market study for a prospective well intervention contractor, and sourcing a suitable ship-owning partner.

Vroon Offshore – 2 x DSV's TBN: Providing owners who were contemplating the build of two DP dive support vessels, with the optimum design of suitable saturation diving systems.

EDT / MC: Providing owners with support in sourcing a suitable saturation diving system to install in DP vessel Protea.

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