Norway's Eidesvik Offshore has secured three more years of work for a platform supply vessel (PSV) with domestic major Equinor.

The 6,200-dwt Viking Avant (built 2004) will stay on in direct continuation when its current charter expires in December.

Eidesvik Offshore CEO Jan Fredrik Meling said: "We are very pleased with the new contract award from Equinor, which also enables us to install batteries and hybrid solutions for Viking Avant.