Houston-based Tidewater Inc. and its subsidiaries offer marine support services and offshore support vessels to the worldwide offshore energy industry via a fleet of marine service vessels. Tidewater's offerings include support services for offshore crude oil and natural gas exploration, field development, and production, as well as wind farm development, maintenance and more. These services include towing and anchor handling for mobile offshore drilling units, transportation of supplies and sustainment of drilling, offshore construction, and specialized services like pipe and cable laying, geotechnical survey support for windfarm construction, and seismic and subsea support. The company operates a range of vessels including anchor handling towing supply vessels, offshore tugs, platform supply vessels, crew boats, and utility vessels. Its client base consists of oil and natural gas exploration, production, and development companies, independent exploration and production companies, drilling contractors, and foreign government-owned or government-controlled organizations, as well as other wind farm development, diving, well stimulation, offshore construction, and related companies. The company, which was founded in 1956, is headquartered in Houston, Texas.