Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case
Offshore oil and gas activities are crucial in the petroleum industry. Offshore oil and gas installations require different cargo to operate. A heterogeneous fleet of platform supply vessels (PSVs) transports cargo supply to installations. The PSV fleet management in Brazil faces challenges such as...
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| author | Igor Girão Peres Vianna Paulo Cesar Ribas Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho Irina Gribkovskaia |
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| description | Offshore oil and gas activities are crucial in the petroleum industry. Offshore oil and gas installations require different cargo to operate. A heterogeneous fleet of platform supply vessels (PSVs) transports cargo supply to installations. The PSV fleet management in Brazil faces challenges such as the non-availability of the spot market, variations and uncertainties in delivery order demands and due dates, inspection and corrective vessel maintenance, and multiple time windows for service at installations. PSV fleet management aims to satisfy cargo delivery requests in time and quantity, avoid delays, and achieve a balance among delivery service levels, vessel costs, and greenhouse gas emissions. We develop several PSV fleet management policies with delivery service level or fuel consumption goals, composed of new fleet management procedures such as vessel control, vessel assignment to voyages including cargo selection, vessel routing, speed selection, and dynamic re-routing. The results of tests on a real Brazilian case demonstrate that the developed policies with the incorporated fleet management procedures improve fleet performance indicators. The comparative analysis of policies shows their different impacts on indicators, allowing managers to select the best fleet management policy by considering the trade-offs between delivery service level, costs, and emissions, depending on their goals. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8267ff8bb54e4906b5e16d13adea6ad22025-08-20T02:28:31ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122025-03-0113468610.3390/jmse13040686Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian CaseIgor Girão Peres Vianna0Paulo Cesar Ribas1Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho2Irina Gribkovskaia3Production Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, BrazilFaculty of Logistics, Molde University College, 6410 Molde, NorwayProduction Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, BrazilFaculty of Logistics, Molde University College, 6410 Molde, NorwayOffshore oil and gas activities are crucial in the petroleum industry. Offshore oil and gas installations require different cargo to operate. A heterogeneous fleet of platform supply vessels (PSVs) transports cargo supply to installations. The PSV fleet management in Brazil faces challenges such as the non-availability of the spot market, variations and uncertainties in delivery order demands and due dates, inspection and corrective vessel maintenance, and multiple time windows for service at installations. PSV fleet management aims to satisfy cargo delivery requests in time and quantity, avoid delays, and achieve a balance among delivery service levels, vessel costs, and greenhouse gas emissions. We develop several PSV fleet management policies with delivery service level or fuel consumption goals, composed of new fleet management procedures such as vessel control, vessel assignment to voyages including cargo selection, vessel routing, speed selection, and dynamic re-routing. The results of tests on a real Brazilian case demonstrate that the developed policies with the incorporated fleet management procedures improve fleet performance indicators. The comparative analysis of policies shows their different impacts on indicators, allowing managers to select the best fleet management policy by considering the trade-offs between delivery service level, costs, and emissions, depending on their goals.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/13/4/686offshore oil and gas logisticsplatform supply vesselsfleet management policiesdelivery service levelvessel costsBrazilian case |
| spellingShingle | Igor Girão Peres Vianna Paulo Cesar Ribas Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho Irina Gribkovskaia Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case Journal of Marine Science and Engineering offshore oil and gas logistics platform supply vessels fleet management policies delivery service level vessel costs Brazilian case |
| title | Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case |
| title_full | Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case |
| title_fullStr | Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case |
| title_short | Analysis of Fleet Management Policies for Offshore Platform Supply Vessels: The Brazilian Case |
| title_sort | analysis of fleet management policies for offshore platform supply vessels the brazilian case |
| topic | offshore oil and gas logistics platform supply vessels fleet management policies delivery service level vessel costs Brazilian case |
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