Candies Announces Two Promotions
Otto Candies, LLC announced the promotions of P.B. Candies and Brett Candies to co-directors of the traffic, sales and marketing departments. Additionally, John Stevenson and Shane Candies have joined the Sales and Marketing Team. Stevenson was a former Senior Sales Representative with McDonough Marine Service. Shane Candies was the former Marketing Manager for Litton Marine Systems. Otto Candies, LLC is a Marine Transportation and Towing Contractor located in Des Allemands, La. Founded in 1942, the company operates a state-of-the-art fleet of Offshore Supply Vessels, Ocean Tugs and Ocean Deck Barges.
Market Report: When Will the Turn Around Come?
It seems to be a soap opera without an end. "It is crazy…makes no sense at all," is a common observation. If you are in the oil and gas business, the number one question is, "When is the drilling going to pickup?" It is a question without an answer…at least through the first quarter of 2004. "Normally when prices are low and oil rises about $25 a barrel and gas goes above $2.50 per million cubic foot, everybody goes back to work," noted Roy Breaux, Jr., president of Breaux Bay Craft, Loreauville, La. a leading builder of crew/supply boats. "We drill ourselves out of recessions, but not this time, at least not yet" Breaux said. Breaux echoes the sentiment of almost everyone in the industry "The answer must lie in Houston because that's where the decisions on when to drill come…
Candies Announces Promotions
Otto Candies, LLC announced the promotions of P.B. Candies and Brett Candies to Co-Directors of the Traffic, Sales and Marketing Departments. Additionally, John Stevenson and Shane Candies have joined the Sales and Marketing Team. Stevenson was a former Senior Sales Representative with McDonough Marine Service. Shane Candies was the former Marketing Manager for Litton Marine Systems. Otto Candies, LLC is a Marine Transportation and Towing Contractor located in Des Allemands, Louisiana. Founded in 1942, the company operates a state-of-the-art fleet of Offshore Supply Vessels, Ocean Tugs and Ocean Deck Barges.
Feature: Dutch Treat
For many years Houma Fabricators, Houma, La. built passenger boats, offshore boats and other steel hulled vessels much like a dozen other shipyards in the Gulf south. In the mid-90's they built several large gaming boats for Iowa entrepreneur Bob Kehl. If you hadn't stopped by Houma Fabricators for the past two years, today you would not recognize the place. Purchased by Shipyard De Hoop of the Netherlands in 2001, the shipyard has undergone an amazing transformation with an $8.6 million expansion. The Dutch shipyard is turning the 42-acre Houma site into a shipyard to resemble the company's main facility in Lobith, Netherlands. " So far we have added three steel preparation halls, four subassembly halls, new slipways with bulkheads and a permanent launching system," said O.M.
Building Candies High-Performance Boats
One of the first companies to offer offshore supply services in the Gulf of Mexico was Otto Candies. His vision has endured and today the company is expanding its fleet rapidly through a second and a third generation of Candies executives. In the new millennium, Otto Candies LLC, Des Allemands, La., has embarked on a very aggressive new building program that has seen the delivery of three 150-ft. by 50-ft. anchor handling tugs, three state of the art 240-ft. diesel/electric supply boats and now a series of six 185-ft. by 42-ft. supply boats also with diesel electric propulsion and dynamic positioning capabilities. The three 150-ft. tugs and the three supply boats were built by Bender Shipbuilding and Repair, Mobile, Ala. For five of the six 185-ft.
