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Offshore Support Vessels

Offshore Service (or Support) Vessels render assistance in oil exploration and construction at sea. The essential classes of OSVs are as follows:

• Supply vessels that service offshore rigs
• Pipe and cable laying vessels
• A crane vessel or floating crane
• Semi-submersible drill rigs for drilling oil and gas
• Drillship is a merchant vessel used in exploratory offshore drilling of new oil and gas wells or scientific drilling expeditions.
• Accommodation barges are floating hotels and can hold cargo as well
• Production platforms used to extract and process oil and natural gas and for temporary storage.
• Floating Storage Unit is a vessel used for storage of oil and by-products.
• Floating production, storage and offloading unit is a vessel used for the production and processing of hydrocarbons and storage of oil
• Anchor handling vessels are used for offshore construction and installations.
• Diving vessels are for ocean diving or underwater jobs

Offshore Service (or Support) Vessels render assistance in oil exploration and construction at sea. The essential classes of OSVs are as follows