Single point mooring: Byco to accommodate large vessels

New Byco facility can accommodate larger size vessels carrying over 100,000 tons of crude and petroleum products.

KARACHI:

Byco’s single point mooring (SPM), Pakistan’s first such facility which has been set up on the coast of the Arabian Sea some 14km from the company’s Mouza Kund site, has been commissioned.

According to a press release, this facility, with a draft of 25 metres, can accommodate larger size vessels carrying over 100,000 tons of crude and petroleum products.

Crude oil tanker, MT Arietis, completed discharge of 70,000 tons of crude oil, marking the commissioning of the SPM. The discharge rate peaked at 2,380 tons per hour and averaged over 2,000 tons per hour, emptying the first cargo of 70,000 tons in 39 hours.

This compares favourably to the discharge rates of 1,500-1,600 tons per hour Byco experienced at Fotco, Port Qasim.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd, 2013.                

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