Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), which started as Edison Chouest Boat Rentals in 1960, is a family of companies in the marine transportation business based in

Cut Off, Louisiana Cut Off (historically named La Coupe) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,533 in 2020. It is part of the Houma, Louisiana, Houm ...

. ECO owns and operates a fleet of

platform supply vessel A platform supply vessel (PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil platform, oil and gas platforms and other offshore installations. They typically range from in length and are distinguished by the large open deck area used to st ...

s, Subsea Construction / IMR vessels, a Riserless Light Well Intervention vessel,

Anchor handling tug supply vessel Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels are mainly built to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow them to location, and use them to secure the rigs in place. AHTS vessels sometimes also serve as Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs) and a ...

s, Oil Spill Response Vessels, and Well Stimulation Vessels, as well as an independently owned fleet of

Research Vessel A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship or boat designed, modified, or equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel but others require a dedicated ...

s and Ice Breakers. Edison Chouest Offshore operates five

shipyard A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are shipbuilding, built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Compared to shipyards, which are sometimes m ...

s: *North American Shipbuilding (NAS) in

Larose, Louisiana Larose is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 6,763 in 2020. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. ...

was founded in 1974 on the Dixie Delta Canal running to

Lake Salvador Lake Salvador () is a lake about southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, in Jefferson, Lafourche, and St. Charles parishes. The lake has had multiple names. On the d'Anville map of 1732, the lake was Lac des Ounchas. The Darby map of 1816 lists ...

. *Gulf Ship LLC, in

Gulfport, Mississippi Gulfport ( ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, and its co-county seat. It had a population of 72,926 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Mississippi, second-most populous ...

, in 2007 * Tampa Ship, the former Tampa Bay Shipbuilding, founded in 2008. *La Ship, in

Houma, Louisiana Houma ( ) is the largest city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area. The city's governme ...

, founded in 2011 ** North American Fabricators, (NAF), in Houma, Louisiana, founded in 1996 (now part of LaShip) *Estaleiro NavShip, in Navegantes,

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

at Superporto do Açu on the Itajaí-Açu river founded in 2005 *ECO's offshore vessels range from 109 feet to 525 feet. *Edison Chouest Offshore has an office in Houston Texas and has a fleet of over 200

vessels Vessel(s) or the Vessel may refer to: Biology *Blood vessel, a part of the circulatory system and function to transport blood throughout the body *Lymphatic vessel, a thin walled, valved structure that carries lymph *Vessel element, a narrow wat ...

some with

Remotely operated underwater vehicle A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) or remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is a free-swimming submersible craft used to perform underwater observation, inspection and physical tasks such as valve operations, hydraulic functions and other g ...

s (ROV-subsea). *Edison Chouest operates the Edison Chouest Offshore Training Center.
Port services * Port Fourchon C-Port and C-Logistics, loading and unloading, dockside services. ** C-Innovation, riserless light well intervention (RLWI) services. **Martin Terminal large staging lot. **C-Terminal, Port Fourchon Dock and warehouse storage. **Fourchon Heavy Lift, 500-ton derrick crane **Clean Tank service and clean Waste service * Port of Açu, located in São João da Barra in northern Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.Port of Açu, ''chouest.com''
/ref> Photo gallery *Some ships built by North American Shipbuilding - Edison Chouest Offshore: Aiviq 30dec2012.jpg , '' Aiviq'' in heavy seas on 30 December 2012. MV Cory Chouest.jpg, MV ''Cory Chouest'' NR-1 with Carolyn Chouest.jpg, MV ''Carolyn Chouest'' with ''NR-1''. Tugboat C-Tractor 3.jpg, The ''C-Tractor 3'', escorts the U.S. Navy ballistic-missile submarine USS ''Rhode Island'' (SSBN-740). Antarctica Nathaniel B Palmer.jpg, Icebreaker ''Nathaniel B. Palmer'', serving the

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

. Laurence M Gould.JPG, RV ''Laurence M. Gould'' in

Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (, historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital List of cities in Chile, city of Chile's southernmost Regions of Chile, region, Magallanes Region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena. Although officially renamed as ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. MSC-chartered MV VADM K.R. Wheeler.jpg, USNS ''VADM K. R. Wheeler''

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