Synchronizing…
A public reference property of Baalvion
Open data · every figure carries its source
Largest in this registry
#7,169
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest oil tanker
#606
of 2,975 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#1
of 4 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
La Noumbi is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit operated by Perenco. The vessel, converted from the former Finnish Aframax crude oil tanker Tempera by Keppel Corporation, will replace an older FPSO unit in the Yombo field off the Republic of Congo in 2018.
Built at Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Japan in 2002, Tempera was the first ship to utilize the double acting tanker (DAT) concept in which the vessel is designed to travel ahead in open water and astern in severe ice conditions. Tempera and her sister ship Mastera, built in 2003, were used mainly to transport crude oil, year-round, from the Russian oil terminal in Primorsk to Neste Oil refineries in Porvoo and Naantali. In 2015, Neste sold Tempera to the oil and gas company Perenco for conversion to an FPSO.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 64,259 gross tons, MT Tempera is the 7,169th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 11 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 3,060 oil tankers held here, it ranks 606th by tonnage — larger than 80% of that group. Their median tonnage is 22,184 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 149,274 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (301 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 190 hulls on record.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is the country of registry for 561 vessels in this directory, of which MT Tempera is the 10th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (233 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,406 GT. Browse every ship flagged Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 4 oil tankers flying the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag, of which none is larger than MT Tempera.
MT Tempera was built in 2002, making it 24 years old. It is one of 1,298 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 12,563 GT; within it this ship is the 143rd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 161 vessels to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 51,956 GT, delivered between 1959 and 2022. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 252.0 m overall, MT Tempera is 73.0 m longer than the 179.0 m median for oil tankers on record, with a beam of 44.0 m and a draft of 15.3 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9235880 this registry holds 81 other vessels, whose median build year is 2002 and which range from 2000 to 2003. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2002.
Its IMO number, 9235880, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 5×4 + 8×3 + 8×2 = 150 — and the last digit of that total, 0, must equal the seventh digit, 0. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among oil tankers
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Kmarin Regard | 2016 | 64,309 |
| «British Restraint» | 2017 | 64,309 |
| Kmarin Rigour | 2016 | 64,309 |
| MT Tempera (this ship) | 2002 | 64,259 |
| «Mekar Bergading» | 2009 | 64,158 |
| Ligurian Sea | 2011 | 64,089 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
| 2016 |
| 64,018 |