PETROBRAS’ port in Macaé has become a key hub for anchoring equipment logistics, a highly demanded service due to the arrival of new FPSOs.
PORT OF IMBETIBA
🔸 Official name since 2012: Zephyrino Lavenère Machado Filho Port
🔸 Built in the late 1970s
🔸 3 piers for vessels up to 120 meters in length
🔸 Maximum depth: 9 meters
FUNCTIONS OF AHTS VESSELS (Anchor Handling Tug Supply)
🔸 Anchor handling
🔸 Ocean towing
🔸 Installation of subsea equipment
🔸 Installation of torpedo piles
🔸 Platform heading control
🔸 Decommissioning
🔸 Salvage support
AHTS Skandi Urca
🔸 Owned by DOF, built in 2014 at the VARD shipyard
🔸 Length: 93.5 m, Beam: 22 m, Draft: 7.9 m
🔸 Bollard pull: 260 tons
🔸 Chain locker capacity: 1,100 m³
