She is owned by the Turkish petroleum and natural gas pipeline corporation BOTAŞ, and operated by the Norwegian maritime company Wilhelmsen Ship Management, serving at Botaş Dörtyol LNG Storage Facility in southern Turkey.
The offshore support vessel was built for the Turkish petroleum and natural gas pipeline corporation BOTAŞ, at a budget cost of US$225 million,[1] at Ulsan shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries.
[8] She is certified as a Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) for liquified natural gas (LNG) in accordance with the guidelines for LNG Regasification Vessels of the classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).
[7] She started her operations under the management of the Singapore-based Norwegian company Wilhelmsen Ship Management,[5][13][6] transferring 132,000 m3 (4,700,000 cu ft) Algeria-based LNG from the Bahamas-flagged carrier LNG Berge Arzew and regasifying and pumping into the national pipeline network system on 29 June.
[14] In 2022, BOTAŞ reported that the FSRU carried out a total of 24 ship-to-ship operations within twelve months.