Prince Job 1 was specially built at De Hoop’s Shipyard Netherland as a special multipurpose platform support vessel. Designed to operate in the Chevron offshore oil fields near Nigeria, Shipyard De Hoop’s hull number 450
was handed over to Awaritse Nigeria Limited (ANL), at the end of March 2015. The vessel is
intended to support all exploitation activities involved in the transport of liquid fossil fuel through a subsea
pipeline, from the buoy to the mainland. One of those activities is the discharge of transmix liquids.
At present, the local discharge of transmix liquids is performed by means of tankers. However the maximum allowable draught for this operation area is not suitable for the tankers that are currently being used, moreover the use of these tankers only provides an adequate solution for one of the three major tasks, that have to be performed. Obviously, improvising with tankers that do not have the right characteristics for the complete job, have too much draught and can only perform one of the three required tasks, is not ideal.
It was therefore that, in March 2014, Shipyard De Hoop secured an order for the design and construction of a dedicated Intermix/Transmix Vessel. The vessel, named Prince Job I was launched on 31 December 2014, at their facilities in Lobith in the Netherlands.
