Belait CSS-2 is an Accommodation platform operated by Belait Shipping Company co. Sdn Bhd. currently work for Brunei Shell Petroleum.She can provide a place for accommodation, Lifting, maintenance, rescue and hoist.[1] She has a sister ship named Belait CSS-1 which is commissioned years longer than CSS-2 which makes CSS-2 the newest one.
Construction of Belait CSS-2 was cooperated between Belait Shipping and Qess and China for construction of oil and gas vessels.[2] Belait CSS-2 was primarily built as a well-intervention vessel to support production of oil in Brunei. Each ship cost about 526 million yuan ($80 million).[3] She’s built in Fujian, China and registered in Majuro, Marshall Islands.
Belait CSS-2 was delivered to Brunei on 2 September 2019.[4] She regularly travel to Champion Field which is a complex oil and gas field, situated 40 kilometres north-northwest of Bandar Seri Begawan, in water depths of 10 to 45 metres. She usually docked in Muara Port, Brunei after every voyages back.
The purpose of the CSS is a multi-function well-intervention, supply and light construction vessel. The primary features a 150 T lattice boom crane, a telescopic heave compensated gangway, a moonpool, a 12.8 T rated helideck, DP-2 rating and accommodation up to 200 people.[5]
She is designed by Vard Marine. The design of the CSS is a cost-effective, stable platform with most of the capabilities of much larger vessels at a far lower cost. In addition, they wanted a design that could be built at shipyards around the world.[6]