Feb 19 2011
Colombo Dockyard Plc (CDPLC) has developed Greatship Rohini, a Remote Operating Vehicle (ROV) support vessel, for Greatship Global Offshore Services of Singapore to perform complicated undersea tasks in the oil and gas segment.
Basil Rajapaksa, Colombo’s Minister of Economic Development, Ashok K Kantha, Indian High Commissioner and several officials of CDPLC and Greatship India participated in the inauguration ceremony.
Greatship Rohini
Rohini is Colombo Dockyard’s first ROV support vessel and will be deployed by Petrobras, the fourth largest oil firm in Brazil, for investigational operations in their underwater oil reserves.
Mangala Yapa, Managing Director of CDPLC, has stated that Greatship Rohini vessel features 78m platform. He has mentioned that the 217th new ship is the 11th big vessel developed by CDPLC within four years since they begun the internationalization of ship development in 2006.
The ROV installed in the vessel is so innovative and it can perform several sub-sea operations like extraction of hydrocarbon, supervision of pipeline and wellhead, alteration and repair works.
Till date CDPLC has developed and supplied 10 advanced vessels like two offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), two passenger vessels, four anchor handling tug supply vessels (AHTSVs) and two multi purpose platform vessels (MPVs). Six of the above mentioned vessels were developed for the Greatship Group of Companies. OPVs and passenger vessels were supplied to Indian and Maldivian Governments.