REM Offshore Brand Guidelines: A 1996 Fosnavåg Owner, a Solstad Merger & a 2016 Restart

One name, two companies, one harbour town.

REM Offshore is a shipowner from Fosnavåg, in Herøy municipality on the Sunnmøre coast of western Norway. NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster, reported in July 2016 that Åge Remøy founded Rem Offshore in 1996; the company’s own website traces its roots on Norway’s west coast to the 1970s. The name has run through two companies. The first was the Herøy shipowner that NRK covered in 2016; the second is the company Remøy and his partners re-established that same year, which trades today from Fosnavåg.

The first company ended in a merger. On 28 July 2016 NRK reported that Rem Offshore had been merged with Solstad Offshore, the Skudeneshavn shipowner whose main shareholder was Aker. Formally, Rem was merged into a Solstad subsidiary, and the new company’s head office was to be in Skudeneshavn, in Rogaland. NRK reported that the construction fleet would be run from Skudeneshavn and the supply vessels from the office in Sunnmøre, and that Rem had about 500 employees. The combined fleet was 62 ships, which NRK said made it the second-largest offshore vessel company in Norway. Remøy told NRK that the company he had started was becoming history, and that keeping the jobs of the employees and an operating base in Fosnavåg had mattered most to him.

The second company started almost at once. REM Offshore says it was re-established in 2016 by Åge Remøy and his partners, with the aim of building a modern offshore fleet, and that it acquired its first vessel in 2017. Its website says it has grown steadily since, despite a difficult offshore market, and that it now has more than 700 employees at sea and on land. The group’s parent is Rem Offshore Holding AS, and the company’s news pages show Remøy as chairman in 2026.

Supply, wind-farm service and subsea construction.

REM Offshore describes three lines of work. Its platform supply vessels carry supplies, including chemicals, drilling equipment and consumables, to and from offshore installations. Its commissioning service operation vessels (CSOVs) house technicians working on offshore wind farms, with cabins, recreation areas and helicopter decks. Its construction support vessels (CSVs) work on subsea installation, inspection, maintenance and construction: REM supplies the vessel, cranes and crew, and the charterer handles the engineering and execution, the company says. It works in the North Sea and in other international waters, for offshore wind as well as oil and gas.

The wind side has been built with Norwegian yards. MarineLink reported on 17 July 2024 that REM had ordered a third CSOV from Vard, after REM Power, delivered in 2023, and REM Wind, delivered in 2024. The new ship uses the VARD 4 19 design from Vard Design in Ålesund, measures 85 by 19.5 metres and has cabins for up to 120 people, 93 of them wind turbine technicians. It was to be built at Vard Vung Tau in Vietnam for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2026, with diesel-electric and battery hybrid propulsion.

Subsea construction followed. On 21 March 2024 MarineLink reported a contract with Myklebust Verft for an energy subsea construction vessel with a 250-tonne crane, designed by Skipsteknisk, for delivery in 2026. The specification included dual-fuel methanol engines with battery packs, electric offshore lifting equipment and a working deck of more than 1,400 square metres prepared for an offshore gangway, with an option for a second ship. In June 2026 the company reported that the hull of Rem Ocean had been delivered from a yard in Song Cam, Vietnam, on 15 June, ahead of its voyage to Norway.

Design and documentation.

Offshore support vessel operators sell a service rather than a product, so their public face is the fleet itself. Their websites lead with photographs of platform supply vessels, anchor-handling tugs, fast crew boats and liftboats as the companies publish them, usually at sea or alongside a quay, with the working deck and the bridge in view.

Behind those photographs sits the fleet list. Operators sort their vessels by type, from supply vessels and anchor handlers to crew boats, liftboats and specialist ships, and give each class a short description, a named example and a length or deck size. Vessel names often run in families, such as a shared prefix, a family surname or a set of animal or place names, and those naming habits become part of how an operator is recognised in port and on charter lists.

Colour plays a similar role. Hull paint, superstructure colour and the mark on the funnel or the side of the bridge are what people see first from a distance, and many operators repeat the same few colours across a whole fleet. In this guide those colours are described in plain words rather than copied, and the palettes shown are our own interpretation.

The rest of an operator’s identity lives in plainer pages: contract and charter news, regional contact lists, sustainability reports and, for listed companies, investor pages with results and presentations. Ownership in the sector has changed often through mergers, restructurings and sales, so each guide sets out who owns the company today, what it says about its fleet, and which facts come from the company and which from independent reports.

Ship of the Year 2026, and a REM prefix on every hull.

The clearest public recognition came in 2026. The Norwegian shipping magazine Skipsrevyen named Rem Pioneer its Ship of the Year 2026, presented on 1 September 2026 at the SMM trade fair in Hamburg. The award went jointly to REM Offshore, the yard Myklebust Verft and the designers at Skipsteknisk, all three based in Møre og Romsdal, the magazine reported; Skipsrevyen has given the award since 1997. REM describes Rem Pioneer as a methanol-fuelled CSOV and a new generation of offshore support vessel.

The naming is consistent. Vessels carry the REM prefix, from REM Power and REM Wind to Rem Pioneer and Rem Ocean, and the website writes the company name as Rem Offshore in running text. Its vision line on the website in November 2026 is “Light footprint – lasting legacy,” and its home page opens with “Deep Roots, High Ambitions.” Both lines lean on the place story told in the company history: roots on Norway’s west coast, coastal communities and an operating base in Fosnavåg.

The two companies are separate. The earlier Rem Offshore became part of Solstad Offshore in 2016, with the merged company’s head office in Skudeneshavn, NRK reported, while the present REM Offshore says it built its fleet from a first vessel bought in 2017 and runs it from Fosnavåg.

For a design guide, REM Offshore shows how a shipowning name can return after a merger, with the REM prefix on each new vessel and a short line about roots and footprint. Compare Island Offshore and Maersk Supply Service. For this guide we use a fjord teal, a slate grey and a signal orange with a modern sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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