

for the offshore oil & gas and renewables industries.
Our full range of offshore rig brokerage services includes sale & purchase, newbuild, chartering, recycling, and rig valuations
We have established 11 companies in the offshore drilling, accommodation, FPSO, well-intervention, data services, engineering, ...
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Bassoe Offshore is a leading offshore rig brokerage, advisory and project development company based in Oslo, Norway with offices in London, Houston, Dubai, and Rio de Janeiro. Our focus is on offshore rig assets including drilling, accommodation and service rigs, as well as floating production units.
Since 1978, we have established 11 companies in the offshore drilling and wind turbine installation industries and executed numerous independent newbuild, charter, and sale & purchase transactions on behalf of clients worldwide. We also provide market intelligence, rig valuation, transportation and consulting services to E&P companies, shipyards, financial institutions, and asset owners.
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To complement our brokerage and advisory services, Bassoe Offshore develops digital applications for the offshore oil & gas industry. The first of these was our Rig Valuation Tool (RVT) which generates values for mobile offshore drilling rigs. Since then, we added our Transaction Database which tracks all offshore rig sale and purchase activity, including sales for scrapping and conversion. Now both of these products have been integrated into our latest product, Bassoe Analytics.
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Mr. Bassoe is the principal of Bassoe Offshore AS and has more than 30 years of experience in the offshore oil services industry.
He has initiated, developed, financed and executed nine rig owning companies and two services companies within rig market data analysis and engineering. Over the past 15 years, these companies have contracted to build 24 offshore jackups andfloater rigs, as well as undertaken numerous rig sale and purchase transactions.
Mr. Bassoe holds a B.Sc. in Business and Public Administration from New York University.
Simen joined Bassoe Offshore in 2018 and has more than 20 years of experience from the offshore and shipping industries.
After more than 10 years in various roles with A.P. Moller-Maersk and Maersk Drilling in Copenhagen, Stavanger and Oslo, Simen worked as CEO of Singapore-based drilling contractor, Frigstad Offshore from 2008–2017. Simen’s educational background is equally broad with Marketing and Economics at NMH/BI Norwegian School of Management, Public Law at the University of Oslo, and programs at the Maersk Shipping Academy and the Norwegian Army’s officer training school. He currently serves as a board member for Atlantica Tender Drilling and Chairman of the Board for Vryhof Group.
David first joined Bassoe Offshore in 2008. He has transactional experience with newbuild rigs, specifically in the windmill installation and tender drilling markets, and has supported various other brokerage & advisory projects.
In 2016, his role expanded to manage and develop Bassoe Offshore’s business development and strategy within its new range of digital applications & data services. Previously, David worked for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics in Oslo and Mexico City.
David has a B.A. in Economics from North Carolina State University and a Master’s in International Economics & Management from SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy.
Hans Hagelberg has more than 30 years of experience from the offshore industry working at Bassoe Offshore in Houston and London.
Prior to Bassoe Offshore he worked in different managerial positions at GVA shipyard and as an industry consultant.
He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and is a Swedish citizen residing in London.
Chris is the Managing Partner of Bassoe Offshore AS and has more than 20 years of experience in the offshore oil services industry. Chris joined Bassoe in 2013, working from the Dubai office, before moving to London in 2017. He is responsible for the Company’s Broker & Advisory business, whilst focusing on the development of strategic project and asset opportunities for international drilling contractors, investors and shipyards.
Prior to joining Bassoe, Chris was Chief Operating Officer with Lamprell plc, a provider of fabrication, engineering and contracting services to the offshore and onshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, whose primary operations included the construction and refurbishment of jackup drilling rigs, offshore fixed platforms, production modules for FPSO’s and land drilling construction services.
Chris has a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying from the University of the West of England, a post graduate diploma in Arbitration from the College of Estate Management in Reading and an MBA from the Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.
Peter joined Bassoe Offshore as a Junior Broker in May, 2015. Prior to Bassoe Offshore, Peter worked as a consultant assessing human factors and work environments in the offshore oil & gas and maritime industries.
Peter holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of San Francisco and a M.Sc. in Organizational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics.
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