Oil & Gas Ship Agency in Cyprus
Tanker calls at every oil terminal on the island, and agency for the supply and support vessels behind the offshore work — 24/7, from the agent that knows each berth's habits.
Oil and gas calls in Cyprus are not one kind of call. A products tanker alongside at VTTV, a crude carrier on the EAC buoy at Vassiliko, a discharge over submarine pipelines in the Dhekelia roadstead and a PSV cycling out of Larnaca are four different operations with four different choreographies — and the same agency desk at Shoham runs all of them, as it has for tanker traffic on this coast for decades.
The work spans both sides of the industry: tanker agency at the terminals, and support for the offshore fleet — supply vessels, anchor handlers and OSVs — with the crew logistics, stores and fast turnarounds that project schedules demand.
The terminals we work
The petroleum tank terminal — four berths, clean and dirty products, STS transfers, running 24/7/365. The closest thing Cyprus has to a conventional tanker port call.
Single Buoy Mooring supplying the EAC Vasilikos power station with HFO and diesel. SBM work is its own discipline — mooring to a buoy, floating hoses, and weather criteria that decide the day.
Open roadstead serving the EAC Dhekelia power station: buoy mooring, discharge through submarine pipelines, 14 m controlling depth, vessels to 225 m LOA. VTS runs through Larnaca Port Control.
Petroleum product imports and storage for the energy sector, worked in conjunction with Larnaca port.
Sea-berth tanker station east of Limassol, worked as the cargo requires.
Offshore support out of Larnaca
Larnaca is the working base for offshore oil and gas support in Cyprus, and campaign work is where agency earns its keep: the same vessels calling repeatedly, crews rotating on fixed cycles, deck cargo and stores moving against a project clock. We run the file around the campaign — standing arrangements with the port, rotation schedules held in advance, and husbandry that repeats without being re-invented each call.
The adjacent services connect here: crew changes for the rotations, chandling for stores and spares, bunkering for the fleet, and STS coordination where cargo moves ship to ship.
Frequently asked questions
What does tanker agency at a sea berth involve?
More than the same call alongside a quay. There is no gangway and no shore crane: everything and everyone moves by launch, mooring is to buoys or an SBM rather than bollards, ETA notices and VTS coordination run through port control, and the weather decides whether today is a working day. The agent's job is to have the notices filed, the launch running, the surveyor booked and the terminal expecting the ship — so the weather is the only variable left.
Do you cover offshore support vessels as well as tankers?
Yes. PSVs, AHTs and offshore support vessels are worked mainly out of Larnaca, which is the island's base for offshore oil and gas support. The rhythm differs from a tanker call — repeat calls, crew rotations, deck cargo and stores against a project schedule rather than a single discharge — and the agency file is built around the campaign, not the call.
Can you handle crew rotations for offshore work?
Yes — crew changes are one of our standing services, and offshore rotations are the demanding version of them: groups moving on fixed project cycles, met at the airport, moved through immigration and onto launches or supply runs. The earlier we hold the rotation schedule, the cheaper and calmer each cycle is.
What else can be arranged during a terminal call?
The usual husbandry, adapted to the anchorage: bunkers where the operation allows, stores and spares by launch, fresh water, waste landing, surveyor and inspector attendance. A tanker at a sea berth has limited time and no quay, so the launch schedule is the constraint everything is planned around — one more reason to give the whole requisition to one agent.
Are you available around the clock?
Yes. Terminal windows, tides of paperwork and offshore schedules do not keep office hours, and discharge operations at the power station terminals run to the plant's needs, not ours. The out-of-hours contact goes on every appointment.
Who do you work for on these calls?
Owners, operators, charterers and energy companies alike — and where the charterer nominates the agent, owners can appoint us as protecting agent to watch their side of the call. For terminal work the appointment is worth making early: approvals, surveys and launch logistics run in parallel when they start together.
Appoint us for a terminal call
Vessel, cargo, terminal and ETA — and for offshore campaigns, the project schedule as far as you hold it. We come back with the proforma, the terminal's requirements and an honest read of the weather exposure at the berth in question.