Seafarers and Maritime Recruitment
Ships and support vessels are a fundamental part of the maritime sector of the Upstream Oil & Gas industry. Their crew, highly specialised seafarers, are the workforce behind these hi-tech sea-going machines. Whether focused on production, support, construction, maintenance or exploration, these seafarers require extensive qualifications to level up their skills, knowledge and rank, in order to match the expertise required by the demanding and ever-changing technology featured on these vessels. The reason of this growing technology: the discovery and production of Oil & Gas in areas which oceans would have never allowed otherwise.
ASD Tug: Azimuth Stern Drive propelled tug.
AHT: Anchor Handling tug, or AHTS, Anchor handling tug supply vessel. Anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels are vessels which supply oil rigs, tow them to location, anchor them up and, in a few cases, serve as an Emergency Rescue and Recovery Vessel (ERRV).
DPII AHTS: Anchor handling tug supply vessel, equipped with a 2nd generation dynamic positioning system.
PSV: Platform supply vessel. A Platform supply vessel (often abbreviated as PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil platforms. These ships range from 20 to 100 meters in length and accomplish a variety of tasks. The primary function for most of these vessels is transportation of goods and personnel to and from offshore oil platforms and other offshore structures.
DSV: Diving support vessel. Vessel involved in diving support operations, taking Air Divers to areas of interest.
OSV: Offshore supply vessel. Could supply materials, equipment or crew.
MPSV: “Multipurpose Platform Supply Vessel”: Construction work, Module Handling, Cable-lay, repairs, ROV, Survey, Pipe transport, Supply duties, Rescue and Fire fighting.
DCV: Deepwater construction vessel.
Subsea CSV: Subsea construction support vessel. These vessels have the ability to perform a wide range of tasks including: inspection, maintenance and repair operations, light construction activities and cable-lay operations.
ASV: ACCOMMODATION & SUPPORT VESSEL, or AIR TO SURFACE VESSEL.
FSIV: Fast supply intervention vessel: Very rapid and able to simultaneously deliver urgent supplies and transport response teams.
Fast Crew Supply Vessel: Jet propelled boats, Fast crew boats transport personnel to oil facilities and move them between different platforms.
Seismic Survey Vessel: A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for mapping. It is a type of research vessel.
ROV Vessel: Remotely operated underwater vehicle. A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is a tethered underwater vehicle. They are common in deepwater industries such as offshore hydrocarbon extraction. An ROV may sometimes be called a remotely operated underwater vehicle to distinguish it from remote control vehicles operating on land or in the air. ROVs are unoccupied, highly manoeuvrable and operated by a person aboard a vessel. They are linked to the ship by a tether (sometimes referred to as an umbilical cable), a group of cables that carry electrical power, video and data signals back and forth between the operator and the vehicle. High power applications will often use hydraulics in addition to electrical cabling. Most ROVs are equipped with at least a video camera and lights. Additional equipment is commonly added to expand the vehicle’s capabilities.
These may include sonar, magnetometers, a still camera, a manipulator or cutting arm, water samplers, and instruments that measure water clarity, light penetration and temperature.
Pipe Layer: A pipe laying ship is a maritime vessel used in the construction of subsea infrastructure. It serves to connect oil production platforms with refineries on shore. To accomplish this goal a typical pipe laying vessel carries a heavy lift crane, used to install pumps and valves, and equipment to lay pipe between subsea structures.
Cable Layer: A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electricity, or oil rigs specific cables (i.e. Xmas tree data cables).
Accommodation Barge: Accommodation Barges let crews enjoy a certain degree of comfort while working in hazardous conditions.
Salvage Vessel: A salvage tug is a specialized type of tugboat which is used to rescue or marine salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking, or which have already sunk or run aground.
ETV: Emergency tow vessel.
Semi-Sub Barge: A semi-submersible barge is a vessel equipped with external buoyancy tanks. These allow the capability of self ballasting operations for loading/unloading of deck cargo and even float-on cargo out at sea. Its submergibility can go up to 7 meters underwater from the main deck. The sheer size of this vessel type allows for a higher amount of cargo load deadweight (up to 19,000 metric tonnes).
FPSO: A floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore industry for the processing of hydrocarbons and for storage of oil. A FPSO vessel is designed to receive hydrocarbons produced from nearby platforms or subsea template, process them, and store oil until it can be offloaded onto a tanker or transported through a pipeline. FPSOs are preferred in frontier offshore regions as they are easy to install, and do not require a local pipeline infrastructure to export oil. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used only to store oil (without processing it) is referred to as a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO).
FDPSO: floating drilling production, storage and offloading unit. A FPSO with drilling capability. See FPSO description.
FSO: A floating, storage and offloading. A FPSO without the Production facility, technically a tanker. See FPSO.
FSRU: Floating Storage Regasification Unit.
Tanker: A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and the liquefied natural gas carrier.
LNG carriers: An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG).
MODU: Mobile offshore drilling unit.
Crane ships: A crane vessel, crane ship or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads. The largest crane vessels are used for offshore construction. Conventional monohulls are used, but the largest crane vessels are often catamaran or semi-submersible types as they have increased stability. On a sheerleg crane, the crane is fixed and cannot rotate, and the vessel therefore is manoeuvred to place loads.
SSCV: Semi-submersible crane vessel.
MOPU: Mobile Offshore Production Unit.
ULCC: Ultra Large Crude Carrier.
VLCC: Very Large Crude Carrier.
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