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Swire Pacific commissioned eight anchor-handers from a Singapore before the latest downturn and brought this one into service in 2014. They have about 18,000 bhp available and claim a bollard pull of more than 220 tonnes. They are big ships with a lot of equipment available, if the specs are to be believed, and this one at least is working out in Brazil. They are Havyard 844LXs.
I have chosen this year just to carry on as usual, despite the festive season, because that's what lots of people have to do. So here is an interesting view of the Safe Truck aft controls. The ship was a UT755 I think and the photograph shows the driver's view of the cargo on the deck and the availability of the controls. On the left of the photo are the thruster controls and on the right the main engine controls.
While not all that many people are sending me photos any more - they can enter a competition on OilPro after all, I have the opportunity of posting some stuff from the past. I have 10,000 photos on file, and I like the industrial side of the business quite a lot. So here is the FPSO P34 with an off- take tanker. For those who are unfamiliar with these large floating objects they are mostly former 100,000 tonne tankers with all the refining equipment stuck on the deck. They can store the resulting product and pump it to tankers tied up astern.