Belait CSS-2 is an accommodation platform operated by Belait Shipping Company co. Sdn Bhd. in service for Brunei Shell Petroleum. She can provide a place for accommodation, lifting, maintenance, rescue and hoist. She has a sister ship named which is commissioned years longer than Belait CSS-2 which makes Belait CSS-2 the newest one.
Construction and career Construction of Belait CSS-2 was cooperated between Belait Shipping and Qess and China for construction of oil and gas vessels. Belait CSS-2 was primarily built as a well-intervention vessel to support production of oil in Brunei. Each ship cost about 526 million yuan ($80 million). She was built in Fujian, China and registered in Majuro, Marshall Islands.
Belait CSS-2 was delivered to Brunei on 2 September 2019. She regularly travel to Champion Field which is a complex oil and gas field, situated s north-northwest of Bandar Seri Begawan, in water depths of . She usually docked in Muara Port, Brunei after every voyages back.
Equipment The purpose of the CSS is a multi-function well-intervention, supply and light construction vessel. The primary features a 150 t lattice boom crane, a telescopic heave compensated gangway, a moonpool, a 12.8 t rated helideck, DP-2 rating and accommodation up to 200 people.
She is designed by Vard Marine. The design of the CSS is a cost-effective, stable platform with most of the capabilities of much larger vessels at a far lower cost. In addition, they wanted a design that could be built at shipyards around the world.
Gallery
References