Global Innovation Hub SBM Offshore is rapidly expanding its Bengaluru operation into a strategic innovation hub that now handles the majority of detailed engineering and supports a large share of worldwide engineering activity. This creates opportunities to offer external engineering services, digital tooling, cloud and data analytics partnerships, and integration work with tools like Navisworks and Azure Data Lake.

Africa Growth The company is boosting its Africa footprint, including Silver Sponsorship at AEW 2026 and a broader Africa FPSO expansion push, signaling strong demand for local content, EPC and maintenance services, equipment, training, and logistics partnerships on offshore projects.

Vessel Expansion A joint venture with Solstad Offshore to develop a next generation deepwater installation and construction vessel targets delivery in 2029, signaling opportunities to provide naval architecture, marine systems engineering, project management, and digital lifecycle solutions for offshore infrastructure.

Blue ESG SBM Offshore frames its strategy around a just transition, cleaner energy production and blue economy, opening avenues for sustainability services such as environmental monitoring, ESG data management, analytics for asset performance, and decommissioning support on offshore facilities.

Ecosystem Partnerships Partnerships like the Green Farms Initiative with Newrest and Plympton illustrate a broad ecosystem approach, creating cross-sell opportunities for integrated logistics, on-site operations support, catering, supply chain services, and digital platforms to coordinate offshore programs.