I saw a Crowley posting for jobs on there and didn’t even realize there was an FPSO out there in the Gulf. What’s it like working on it? DM’s open
BW Pioneer is still out there too I believe.
In the not so recent past (2015) sea time on it was credited the same as a MODU and was limited as to how much of it can be applied to a raise if grade of a license. I don’t know if that still applies.
Nobody else knows anything?
After watching half of this 6 minute video I can guess why no one on a mariners forum knows anything about the FPSO Turritella. It’s seems more like a floating refinery at sea than a ship mariners would want to work on. I hope it pays really well. Bleak.
There is a reason why they have high turn over!!
I can tell you what it’s like to load oil from it but that’s about it.
FPSO Turritella was built as the Suezmax crude carrier “CAPTAIN X. KYRIAKOU”, blt. 2003: https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/1508448
She was converted to FPSO at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore between 2013-15 (28 mths.):
Source: US$800m raised for world's deepest FPSO - The Business Times
Delivered to SBM and sailed from Singapore in Oct.2015.
PS: I was involved with this vessel as MWS several times during the conversion period. I remember especially during the “Tank staggering test” at Raffles Reserve Anchorage:
And for Voyage Approval via Cape of Good Hope before departure for the GoM.