Smart shipping used on Bourbon supply vessels

The deployment will be to five Bourbon Explorer 500 series (DP2-equipped PSVs) operating on blocks 17 and 32 off the Angolan coast.

“This new mode of vessel operation enables us to meet the challenge of controlling costs in the current time of recovering activity,” explained states Ivelino Do Nascimento, Sonasurf Operations Manager. “We are very happy to have been able to move forward in collaborative mode with TOTAL on this deployment project in Angola.”

Bourbon’s Smart shipping program aims to reinforce the safety and reliability of operations whilst reducing cost by 25% over the long term. It is based on three pillars, namely operational model on board the vessel, predictive maintenance and support of onshore operational centres.

Among the innovations and optimisations deployed through this contract are the use of the dynamic positioning system, rationalisation of work organisation on board and the deployment of a new system of predictive maintenance for the main equipment on board.

Deployment of the Smart shipping program on this fleet is in line with Total’s desire to deploy innovative solutions which will increase the sustainability of current vessel rates and hence reduce production costs.