Top 10 FPSOs in the world!

With the gradual development of offshore oil and gas to the deep sea and the high sea, the cost and risk of laying long-distance oil and gas return pipelines are getting higher and higher. The most effective way to solve this problem is to build an oil and gas processing plant at sea – FPSO! FPSO is an offshore floating production, storage and offload device integrating production, oil storage and unloading. It is regarded as the "crown jewel" in the field of marine engineering because of its high cost, complex production process, high degree of integration of equipment and facilities, and difficulty in construction. Top 10 FPSOs in the world! (In no particular order)

10. Petrojarl Knarr

This is by South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard in 2014 to build an FPSO for Canadian Teekay . The boat is 256 meters long and has a width of 48 meters. The draft is 18.6 meters, the gross tonnage is 95,400 tons, and the load capacity is 125,100 tons. Accommodation for 100 people is available on board. The daily oil production capacity is 63,000 barrels, and the maximum storage capacity is more than 800,000 barrels. The ship since 2015. The FPSO has been working in the Canal field west of Flor off the coast of Norway until 2025 and is currently operating under the Flag of the Bahamas.

9. Glen Lyon

This is an FPSO built by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard over a period of more than four years. The vessel, which is owned by BP, left Asian waters in December 2015 and is scheduled to arrive in the western Shetland Islands oil fields in June 2016. Its hull is 270 meters long, the row width is 52 meters, the gross tonnage is 100,000 tons, the upper module is 21,000 tons, and the ship is equipped with a variety of intelligent equipment. Among them, there are more than 50,000 data points of optical fiber wireless smart devices. Capable of handling and exporting 130,000 barrels of crude oil per day and with the capacity to store 800,000 barrels, the vessel currently sails under the British flag.

8. Armada Kraken

This is a clothing storage and unloading cruise ship owned by Bumi Armada Malaysia, which is a modified Suez-type ice cruise ship built in 2007. The delivery ceremony was completed at the Treasure Shipyard in Singapore in August 2016, designed for safe and reliable operations under harsh sea conditions and challenging operating conditions. With a total length of 305 metres, a width of 50 metres and a draft of 22.5 metres, the vessel provides accommodation for 91 crew members. With a total installed power of 62 MW, it can handle 80,000 barrels of oil per day, 560,000 cubic meters of natural wells, and a maximum storage capacity of more than 600,000 barrels. The vessel currently operates mainly on the Kraken field in the Eastern Shetland Islands.

7. P70

This is the design turnkey of Shanghai COSCO Shipping, a subsidiary of COSCO SHIPPING Heavy Industries in China, and the world's largest tonnage FPSO undertaken by Qidong COSCO Shipping. The vessel was successfully delivered to the Brazilian owner in December 2019 at the CNOOC Qingdao site. His hull is 316 meters long, 54 meters wide, 74 meters wide, 23.1 meters high draft, and has a full load displacement of 350,000 tons. The capacity of the ship is 160 people. Equipped with a double-end export system, it can process 120,000 barrels of crude oil per day, natural gas processing capacity of 6 million cubic meters per day, and oil storage capacity of up to 1.67 million barrels. The ship is designed for a lifespan of 25 years. It is currently in service with the subsalline oil field in the Santos Basin off southeast of Brazil.

6. USS Assen

This is a ship designed 30 years ago, since its launch in South Korea in 1988. It has been flying the Bahamas flag and was rebuilt in 2011 at keppel Shipyard in Singapore. He has a total hull length of 330 meters, a width of 56 meters, a total tonnage of 144,000 tons, and a full load displacement of 236,000 tons. The total cargo storage capacity is 1.5 million barrels, the daily production capacity of oil is 80,000 barrels per day, and the natural gas production capacity is nearly 5 million cubic meters per day. The vessel is operated by the Guinean Gpsin Company and is currently in service on an oil and gas field off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, West Africa.

5. Dorne

This is the world's largest tonnage FPSO manufactured by South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries for Total Group, the world's fourth largest oil and gas company. The vessel was ordered in 2013 and left Samsung Geoje Shipyard in October 2017 with a total investment of nearly $3.3 billion. His hull is 330 meters long, 61 meters wide and 33.5 meters deep, and the weight of the upper production platform alone is 60,000 tons. The designed crude oil processing capacity is 208,000 barrels per day, the crude oil storage capacity is 2.3 million barrels, and the ship has a capacity of 240 people. It entered service in December 2018 on the EGina oil field, located at a water depth of about 1,600 meters on the Nigerian coast. The vessel is the largest FPSO of offshore Africa.

4. John Agyekum Kufuor

This is a type of FPSO designed by The Norwegian marine equipment engineering company Yinson and transformed by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, which was built in 1988. The complete renovation was completed in 2017 and named after former Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor. His hull is 333 meters long, 60 meters wide, the total weight of the superstructure is 15,000 tons, it can process 58,000 barrels of crude oil per day, its storage equipment can accommodate up to 1.7 million barrels of oil, the ship is designed for 20 years without dry dock maintenance, and can be anchored in the sea with an average water depth of 1000 meters, and is currently mooring operations in the sea of the Thano Basin.

3. Liza Destiny

This is an FPSO converted from a very large crude oil carrier built in 1999, named Tina. Starting in 2018, it took 12 months at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore to complete the construction of all 14 modules. His hull is 334 meters long, 58 meters wide, 31 meters deep and has a total tonnage of 160,000 tons. With a full load displacement of 309,000 tons, the designed daily oil production capacity is 120,000 barrels, and the storage capacity is 1.6 million barrels. The ship has a capacity of 80 people and can accommodate up to 120 workers. The vessel, which belongs to the fleet of the Dutch company SBM Offshore, is currently in service with the Liza oil field in Guyana waters and sails under the Bahamas flag.

2. Amada Olongbendo

This was operated by Singapore Keppel Shipyard in 2016 as an FPSO operator in Malaysia. A large floating storage and unloading vessel converted by Bumi Amada, built for operation off the coast of Angola from the East Hub development project, was built in 1999 and leased to the Italian oil company Eni Group after completion, with a hull assembly of 335 meters, a width of 58 meters and a full load displacement of 302,000 tons. The designed crude oil production capacity is 80,000 barrels per day and the natural gas processing capacity is 3.4 million cubic meters per day. Net storage capacity of 1.7 million barrels. The vessel flies the Marshall Islands flag. It is currently on its way to Angola at a speed of 0.1 nautical miles.

1. Liza UNITY

This is the world's newest FPSO created by the Dutch company SBM Offshore. The hull was jointly designed and built by the China Shipbuilding 708 Research Institute and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, successfully delivered in December 2019, and then arrived in Singapore to complete the upper module integration at Keppel Shipyard. It was completed and delivered in September last year, leaving Singapore for Guyana. He has a total length of 342 meters and a width of 60 meters. With a total tonnage of 250,000 tons and a full load displacement of 460,000 tons, it is designed to produce 220,000 barrels of oil per day, can handle 11.32 million cubic meters of natural gas, and has a net storage capacity of up to 2 million barrels. The vessel will be moored on the Liza oil field, about 200 kilometers off the coast of AxonMobil Guyana.