RE: Aoka Mizu CONTRACT EXTENSION23 May 2025 10:59
I may have sussed this out? An extension on an undefined contract didn’t make sense so I looked back at previous terms. From the Prax Upstream accounts and the Prax Group report last year:
“On 25 March 2022, the Group announced that it had signed a contract with Bluewater, for an extension to the Bareboat Charter beyond the previous expiry date of 4 June 2022. … The contract is a rolling, evergreen contract so does not contain any extension options.”
Also (and confirmed in the Aurelia Sept 24 Q3 report):
“In June 2024, Prax Upstream concluded a further agreement with Bluewater to amend the day rate for the vessel over the remaining lease term as follows (other terms remaining unaffected)” [continues to detail the new rates]
So I think the new comment in the Aurelia Q1 2025 report about “contract amendment and extension” might just be referring to that existing amendment and the extension from June 2022, which now appear to have been renegotiated with a new Head of Terms agreed in Q1, the exact details of which we don’t know. The phrase “as long as reasonably possible and convenient to both parties” is a bit glib?
All just musings and we will know one way or another when Prax update on the matter. They might do so at the same time as confirming the completion of Greater Laggan?