Belait CSS-1
# Belait CSS-1

Belait CSS-1 is a well intervention vessel and Accommodation platform owned by Belait Shipping. She can provide places for accommodations, and perform maintenance, rescue, and hoist activities. She has a sister ship named Belait CSS-2, commissioned four years after CSS-1.

## Construction and career

Construction of Belait CSS-1 was commissioned by Belait CSS Sendirian Berhad, an SPV Company registered in Brunei Darussalam. Belait CSS-1 was primarily built as a well-intervention vessel to support production of oil in Brunei. She cost about 526 million yuan ($80 million), was built in Fujian, China and registered in Muara, Brunei.

Belait CSS-1 was undocked from the shipyard on 7 December 2013 and delivered to Brunei on 25 February 2015. She regularly travels to the 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 docks in Muara Port, Brunei after every return voyages.

## Equipments

The CSS is a multi-function well-intervention, supply, and light construction vessel, with accommodation for workers. It is equipped with 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.

She was designed by Vard Marine. The CSS is a cost-effective, stable platform with most of the capabilities of much larger vessels at a far lower cost. In addition, the design can be built at shipyards around the world.

## Gallery

* Belait CSS-1 Gallery
* Belait CSS-1 docked in Muara Port on 22 May 2015.
* Belait CSS-1’s arrival counter.
