Dockyard delivers Greatship Rohini

by Sapumali GALAGODA

The first vessel built for Greatship Global Offshore Services (Ptv) Ltd Singapore by Colombo Dockyard Plc (CDPLC) to attend to highly complex deep sea operations in the oil and gas industry - Greatship Rohini was christened last week.

The ceremony at the Colombo Dockyard had Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa, the High Commissioner of India Ashok K Kantha, representatives from Colombo Dockyard PLC and Greatship India Ltd. participating.

Rohini is the first platform Remote Operating Vehicle (ROV) support vessel built by the Colombo Dockyard with capabilities for attending highly complex deep sea operations in the oil and gas industry and also the first vessel built by Colombo Dockyard PLC that will be chartered by the world’s fourth largest oil company in Brazil, Petrobras.

They will use this vessel for exploration activities in their offshore oil reserves in deep water.

“The Greatship Rohini a state of the art 78m platform/ROV support vessel is the 217th new ship and the 11th large and highly complex vessel built and delivered by CDPLC in the short span of four years since we internationalised ship building in 2006, said Managing Director CDPLC Mangala Yapa.

The vessel is equipped with highly sophisticated (ROV).

ROV is an underwater robot with multifaceted complex manoeuvering used in offshore industry for various duties on sub-sea structures; hydrocarbon sample extraction, well head and pipe line inspection, repairs and modification and even damage control work.

CDPLC has built and delivered 10 modern, ocean going vessels including four anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTSVs), two offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), two passenger vessels and two multi purpose flatform vessels (MPVs), six of the above vessels were for the Greatship Group of Companies whilst the OPVs and passenger vessels are for the Maldivian and Indian Governments.

Greatship India Limited (GIL) incorporated in 2002 is a wholly owned subsidiary of India’s largest private sector shipping company, the Great Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd. GIL is in the business of providing offshore oil field services catering to the oil and gas exploration domain.

CDPLC is one of Sri Lanka’s largest foreign exchange earners contributing nearly 2 percent of Sri Lanka’s total export revenue. CDPLC operates four graving docks with a maximum capacity of 125,000 DWT and possesses extensive repair berth facilities to provide full service repairs for petroleum and chemical tankers, LPG carriers, container carriers, bulk carriers, offshore support vessels and dredgers.