Platform Supply Vessel/Offshore Supply Vessel Jobs
The main purpose of nearly all of these offshore supply ships is logistic supply and shipping
materials, stores, tools, equipments and personnel to and from offshore oil and
gas platforms and other offshore units to and from shore or between offshore
units.
An Offshore Supply Vessel-OSV or Platform supply vessel-PSV generally
called a supply boat is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil and
gas platforms or other offshore units. These ships range from
50 to 100 meters in length and carry out an array of duties. Offshore platform
supply vessels are self-propelled by two powerful engines with bridge towards
bow of ship and long open deck on astern to carry cargo.
The most important task of an offshore supply
vessel is to transfer supplies to the offshore oil and gas units and take back other
materials to coast. Potable and non-potable water, diesel oil, pulverized
cement, chemicals and cargo tanks for drilling mud used in the drilling procedure
cover the almost all of the cargo deck.
Now a days a modern generation of platform supply
vessel are more in use which are equipped with class one or class two dynamic positioning
system which is normally applied when the vessel is going near to an oil
platform or near to a drill rig for supplies.
Water, fuel oil and chemicals are nearly always
required by oil platforms, offshore rigs or other offshore vessels. Some types
of chemicals must be taken back to shore for right recycling or dumping
purpose. Though, crude oil produce from the offshore drill rig is generally not
a platform supply vessel payload.
General and specialty apparatus are transported
on the large decks of offshore supply vessels. Nearly all PSV/OSV carry’s a mixture
of deck goods and bulk cargo in tanks on lower deck. Many platform supply ships
are designed or repaired/refitted to carry out a specific job.
A number of these offshore vessels are equipped
with the firefighting capacity and fire monitors for offshore platform fire
fighting so acts also as a platform standby vessel for SAR operations.
Some platform supply vessels are also used to
help in the cleaning of an oil-spillage at sea that are equipped with recovery
equipment and oil containment. PSV/OSV may also used as support vessel which are
fitted with required tools, chemicals and carry’s workers to work on present
oil wells with the objective to raise the offshore oil well’s productivity.
Platform supply vessels generally carriers about
between 14 to 16 number of crew members and may be goes up to 36 crew members,
depending on the size of offshore vessel, operational location and whether it
is DP system equipped or not.
