At Chattogram port, Bangladesh's first sea-land integrated super-large oil storage and transportation system has been implemented, with a 100,000-ton oil tanker unloading oil through the Chinese-built single-point mooring (SPM) system.
The SPM system project was completed by builders from the China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPP). The successful mooring of large oil tankers and offshore oil operations are important milestones in Bangladesh-China energy cooperation and major achievements in bilateral energy collaboration under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Bangladesh has relied on imports for almost all of its oil and petroleum products, with tankers arriving in Chattogram from abroad. However, the limited water depth of the port has denied access to the 100,000-ton oil tanker, resulting in the unloading and conveying of oil to the port by small oil tankers, which is inefficient and costly. It also risks polluting the environment.
The SPM system allows large oil tankers to moor offshore at a deep-water point from which pipelines extend for loading and unloading operations. This project has opened up an energy transportation artery for Bangladesh, shortening oil unloading and transportation time for 100,000-ton oil tankers from 11 days to about 48 hours and saving the South Asian country 128 million U.S. dollars in crude oil transportation every year.
FBR plays a crucial role in the entire SPM system. Given the technical standards and quality requirements of the SPM system, FBR implemented rigorous checks at each stage, ensuring the compatibility of the mooring lines and their associated equipment.
We successfully delivered and applied these mooring lines in the project.
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