Protect passenger movements
Plan the service around required crew-change windows and transfer arrangements.
PETRO HULU SDN. BHD. · CHEVRON MALAYSIA
FSUMV
marine services
Operating experience and application
to Chevron’s marine scope
THE SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
Crew change. Field supply.
Offtake support.
Petro Hulu · Discussion material · 9 September 2026 Crew change · Field supply · Offtake support
MEETING AGENDA
Agenda
From Chevron’s objectives to the operating evidence and the next evaluation.
Petro Hulu · Chevron Malaysia Supporting records are available within each topic.
01 / CHEVRON’S MARINE-SERVICE OBJECTIVES
Assess a combined service
against Chevron’s operating needs.
The programme brief brings crew change, supply and offtake support into one evaluation.
Serve the cargo programme
Match routes, cargo demand and field access with the vessel’s accepted working scope.
Define the handling duties
Confirm hose and hawser requirements, operating interfaces and retained specialist support.
2027Combined marine service
FSUMV introduction discussed in the client brief
2029Lower-fuel design objective
Use the operating duty profile to inform the future design
Focus of today’s review
What does the IPC experience establish, and what must be confirmed for Chevron?
Programme context: 15 June 2026 client brief; dated intentions, subject to confirmation. No award or approved build schedule is implied.
02 / IPC OPERATING EXPERIENCE
PH Leo at IPC’s Bertam field
A reference for crew change, field supply and hose-handling work.
- CLIENT
- IPC Malaysia B.V.
- VESSEL
- PH Leo
- OPERATING ROUTE IN THE REPORTS
- Kemaman ↔ Bertam
The evidence we will review
Crew and cargo: dated departure and arrival reports, with operating photographs.
Hose handling: the handling photograph, equipment roles and operating assessment.
Service delivery: IPC’s dated feedback and the requirements for an agreed service scope.
Bertam–Kemaman · 9 September 2026
IPC provides the operating reference; Chevron’s nominated vessel and duties require their own acceptance. Activity window reviewed: 11 August–9 September 2026.
02 / IPC OPERATING EXPERIENCE
Recorded crew and cargo
activity at IPC.
PH Leo · Kemaman ↔ Bertam · 11 August–9 September 2026
Work recorded on those 20 legs
Five additional cargo legs report percentages and are excluded from the weight total.
Repeated use across different logistics tasks.
Four matched legs carried both passengers and cargo.
2 September 2026 · 18:00 departure
A documented activity snapshot; not a utilisation or availability percentage.Two unmatched departures excluded from totals.
02 / IPC OPERATING EXPERIENCE
One operating day:
crew change followed by supply.
The practical value
Crew rotations and an evening cargo run share the same vessel in sequence.
This demonstrates scheduling in practice. It does not establish simultaneous capacity or a measured reduction in fleet cost.
All three days have matching reports for each of the three legs. Click a leg to inspect its departure and arrival.
03 / OFFTAKE HANDLING & SERVICE ASSURANCE
Hose and hawser handling:
equipment, interfaces and operating scope.
Hose retrieval
IPC planning notes specify tugger winches for hose retrieval. The operating assessment describes hose-rope and towing-wire connections.
Hawser / mooring-line transfer
The assessment describes messenger-rope transfer between FPSO and tanker. Confirm the hauling winch and complete load path.
For Chevron’s nominated configuration
Agree equipment identity, rated pull, brake holding, witnessed tests and the accepted hose/hawser arrangement.
IPC Bertam field
Winch ratings and duty acceptance require verification for the nominated vessel.Bollard pull is not a winch rating.
03 / OFFTAKE HANDLING & SERVICE ASSURANCE
What IPC highlighted
about vessel and service quality.
IPC HSE INSPECTION · 31 MAY 2026
“the condition of PH Leo
is highly satisfactory”
Crew discipline, HSE practices, housekeeping and safety-equipment readiness were highlighted.
A point-in-time assessment of vessel condition and HSE practices. The same communication raised connectivity and passenger-welfare suggestions.
WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE SERVICE SCOPE
Crew professionalism
Define competence, familiarisation and working routines for the agreed duties.
Vessel readiness
Specify housekeeping, equipment readiness and the checks required before each task.
Passenger experience
Agree communications access, refreshments and welfare provisions as part of the service.
The dated inspection does not establish whole-charter satisfaction, utilisation or a commercial saving.
03 / OFFTAKE HANDLING & SERVICE ASSURANCE
Service assurance:
define the scope around the vessel.
Proposed planning framework for Chevron’s evaluation
Confirm the primary duties
Routes, crew and cargo demand, operating windows, transfer arrangements and offtake interfaces.
Plan for overlapping work
Agree priorities, specialist support and separate cover where duties cannot share the same vessel or window.
Set delivery responsibilities
Name the accepted assets, mobilisation arrangements, communications and decision owners.
Vessel operating reference
Coverage, readiness and response times are for agreement.No cover commitment is assumed.
04 / APPLICATION TO CHEVRON
Applying the IPC experience
to Chevron’s service windows.
Illustrative duty windows · a planning discussion, not Chevron’s actual schedule
Set the priorities
Crew windows, field access, offtake commitments and stop-work triggers.
Name the cover
Accepted asset, readiness, mobilisation time and escalation owner.
Price the complete scope
Include retained and substitute vessels in the same comparison.
Separate cover resolves the illustrated scheduling conflict only. A nominated vessel still requires duty-specific acceptance.
04 / COMMERCIAL EVALUATION
Commercial evaluation:
compare the complete service.
Compare the complete service for the same work and operating windows.
ILLUSTRATION · COST INDEX, NOT CURRENCY
Test two different baselines
A dedicated crewboat and occasional crewboat hire create different economics.
Illustrative assumptions; no IPC rates, supplier quotation or measured saving.
Separate service
Combined service + cover
Hire for every vesselFuel for every assetMobilisation & supportRetained cover & other costs
A schedule and scope check comes before an economic claim. Actual comparable IPC costs remain unestablished.
05 / DISCUSSION & NEXT STEPS
Discussion and next steps
Proposed next step: define one Chevron operating scenario for joint evaluation.
A deliverable duty plan
Routes, volumes, service windows, offtake interfaces and the cover needed for overlapping work.
A comparable service cost
Released and retained vessel days, all fuel and support, clear substitution obligations.
A defined decision point
Review a nominated configuration, accepted scope and complete economics before deciding whether to proceed.
WHAT THE IPC REFERENCE ESTABLISHES
Recorded crew and cargo activity.
Practical scheduling examples for a combined service.
For agreement: scope, required inputs, counterparts and the next review deliverable. Discussion / Q&A