Determination No. W-2025-35

TechnipFMC Canada Limited applied, through its representative, to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (Minister), for a licence to use the Deep Explorer, a diving support ship registered in the Bahamas, to supply and install unbonded flexible pipes, subsea umbilicals and subsea manifold structures. Additionally, it will execute saturation and diving activities to tie the newly installed wellhead platform into the existing SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading unit's (FPSO) subsea system. These operations will be conducted by using a dynamic positioning-Class 3 diving support ship in the White Rose oil field, off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. The activity will start on or about August 1, 2025, and will end on or about November 30, 2025.

To support the licensing process, the Canadian Transportation Agency (Agency) must determine, under section 8 of the Act, whether a suitable Canadian ship is available to provide the service.

Agency staff gave notice of the application to the Canadian marine industry, and no Canadian ships were offered. Therefore, the Agency determines that there is no suitable Canadian ship available to perform the activity.

The Minister considers the Agency's Determination in deciding whether to issue the licence.

This Determination is not an authority to operate.