Yavuz (ship, 2011)

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The Yavuz is a Turkish deep-sea drilling vessel. The owner and operator is the state-owned gas and oil company Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO).

Broader attention was given to the territorial and influence disputes between the Republic of Cyprus, Turkey and the EU over natural gas production in the maritime area around the island of Cyprus.

History
The ship was designed by the Dutch company GustoMSC. It belongs to the P10,000 type, of which 16 units were built. It was built under building number 2228 at Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. The keel was laid on 19 April 2010, the launching on 27. August 2010. The ship was completed on 22 June 2011. It was called Deepsea Metro I.

The Deepsea Metro I was owned by the Golden Close Maritime Corp and operated by the Norwegian Odfjell Drilling. From 2011 to 2018, the ship was registered in the ship register of Bermuda, from 2018 to 2019 in the Marshall Islands.

The Deepsea Metro I was used before Tanzania (2012 and 2014) and before Kenya (2014). She then drilled in front of Vietnam (2015) and the Philippines (2017). Thereafter, it did not fulfill any further exploration contracts and was without employment in Malaysia.

In 2018, the Turkish TPAO bought the ship for 262.5 million USD. It was transferred to Turkey and re-equipped in the port of Yalova near Istanbul. The ship was renamed Yavuz.

Technical data and equipment
The propulsion of the ship is effected by diesel electricity. For propulsion, two propeller gondolas with a power output of 5,000 kW each are available. This achieves 12 knots. In addition to the propeller gondolas for propulsion, the ship also has four other propeller gondolas, each with a power of 5,000 kW, as a positioning system, which can be retracted individually.

Eight MAN diesel generators are available for power generation: six are driven by MAN 9L32/40CD diesel engines with a power output of 4,300 kW each, and two by MAN 18V32/40CD diesel engines with a power output of 8,700 kW each. In addition, an emergency generator with 1,500 kW power was installed.

The task of the ship is to carry out deep-sea drilling. For this purpose, there is a 39-meter-high drilling tower in the middle of the ship. The ship can drill at water depths of up to 3600 meters.

Weblinks
Data sheet of the P10.000 class, GustoMSC (PDF, 961 kB)

Footnotes

Vessel (Turkey)
Drilling vessel
Diesel-electric propulsion vessel
Hyundai Heavy Industries