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West Coast Pilots currently provide marine pilotage and associated services at 7 locations throughout Western Australia and interstate in Geelong, Victoria.

Marine pilotage is West Coast Pilot’s core business. The company believes this is important so it can remain focused on delivering high quality services to its clients in such a specialised area. The services supplied at our varied locations has allowed the company to develop an extensive knowledge base in all sectors of the marine pilotage industry. This is unique for a marine pilotage service provider in Western Australia. West Coast Pilots are in negotiations for a number of additional pilotage service contracts at locations throughout Western Australia and elsewhere.

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Locations

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Broome
Broome is a busy and growing multi user port in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia. A variety of vessels and trades utilize the port including, livestock, general cargo, fuel tankers, offshore supply vessels and increasingly, passenger vessels, some of which are over 300 meters in length.

West Coast Pilots provides relief pilotage services to Kimberley Pilotage Group, who is contracted to the Port of Broome as the marine pilotage provider. West Coast Pilots also provide management and administration support services under contract to Kimberley Pilotage Group.

Pilotage and ship handling in the Port of Broome is challenging due to the large tidal ranges in the area, which are some of the biggest in the world. Pilots have to deal with resultant currents along the berth of up to 5 knots.

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Cocos Islands
The Cocos Islands are an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean located 2750 km north west of Fremantle. West Coast pilots provide experienced pilots for ships entering this pristine atoll.

Arrow Fremantle

Fremantle
West Coast Pilots administration and operations are located at Pilot House in the port city of Fremantle. The building is shared with Fremantle Pilots, which creates obvious synergies beneficial to both companies. Pilot House is in close proximity to other important Fremantle based marine service providers and government regulatory authorities.

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Koolan Island
Koolan Island is situated off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia in the Buccaneer Archipelago. The Koolan Island mine and export facility is owned and operated by Mount Gibson Iron Ltd.

The high grade iron ore is shipped using panamax sized ore carriers with departure drafts of over 14 meters. The pilotage at Koolan Island can be challenging as the large Kimberly tides generate currents up to 4 knots along the berth. A number of experienced West Coast Pilots are licensed to act as marine pilots and warping masters to help ensure a safe and efficient operation. Our Pilots perform draft surveys throughout the loading operation.

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Wandoo
Vermilion Energy’s Wandoo Oil Field is situated approximately 83 km off the northwest shelf of Western Australia, north of the Port of Dampier. Vermillion Energy entered Australia in 2005 acquiring a 60% working interest and operatorship of the offshore Wandoo field. In 2007 Vermilion acquired the remaining 40% interest in the Field. Following purchase of the platform, the company increased the fluid handling capacity on the platform from 114,000 b/d to about 160,000 b/d. 

The oil produced from Wandoo A is piped to the Wandoo B platform. Oil is stored in the CGS supporting the Wandoo B processing facilities and then offloaded through flexible pipelines to a CALM Buoy located 1.2 km north of the Wandoo B platform. A floating hose is used in transferring the oil from the CALM Buoy to export tankers situated at a mooring facility. Export tankers are chartered on a spot basis to offload the crude.

West Coast Pilots provide marine pilotage - loadmaster services and marine consultancy advice on the project with our pool of experienced and qualified offshore oil and gas marine pilots.

Arrow Pyrenees Venture

Pyrenees Venture
Woodside Energy Ltd’s 'Pyrenees Venture' is an Offshore Production, Storage and Offtake (FPSO) facility located off Western Australia's North West coast. The Pyrenees oil fields were originally developed by BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty. Ltd on behalf of the joint venture partners.

West Coast Pilots (WCP) provides expert and experienced marine pilots who act as mooring and loading masters and manoeuvre offtake vessels at the facility. Offtake vessels are generally of 'Aframax' size up to 120,000 DWT. WCP also provides marine advice as required.

Arrow Okha

The Okha FPSO is operated by Woodside Energy Ltd on behalf of the North West Shelf Project participants.

It extracts, processes, stores and offloads oil and export gas from the Cossack, Wanaea, Lambert and Hermes fields. West Coast Pilots provides pilotage services for the tandem mooring of crude oil tankers to the facility to enable product offtakes.

Arrow Ngujima-Yin

The Ngujima-Yin FPSO is an oil production facility located over the Vincent oil field in Western Australia, 50 kilometres north west of Exmouth and operated by Woodside Energy Ltd.

It extracts, processes, stores and offloads oil and export gas from the Vincent area reservoir. West Coast Pilots provides pilotage services for the tandem mooring of crude oil tankers to the facility to enable product offtakes.