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The FPSO operating in the deepest waters is the FPSO BW Pioneer, built and operated by BW Offshore on behalf of Petrobras Americas INC. The FPSO is moored at a depth of 2,600 m in Block 249 Walker Ridge in the US Gulf of Mexico and is rated for 80,000 bbl/d (13,000 m 3 /d). The EPCI contract was awarded in October 2007 and production started in ...
The construction of the FPSO became necessary as the expansion of the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) offshore oil fields demanded that another vessel be added to the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah. The vessel was built by Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Company Inc. (MODEC) in Singapore and named by the Lordina Mahama, in September 2015. [2] The ...
Floating production storage and offloading vessel operators (13 P) Pages in category "Floating production storage and offloading vessels" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompasses , provide information to the computer pertaining to the vessel's position and the magnitude and ...
A typical shipboard ARPA/radar system. A marine radar with automatic radar plotting aid (ARPA) capability can create tracks using radar contacts. [1] [2] The system can calculate the tracked object's course, speed and closest point of approach [3] (CPA), thereby knowing if there is a danger of collision with the other ship or landmass.
Terra Nova is a Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel for servicing the Terra Nova oil and gas field. Since 2019 the vessel has been off-field undergoing a life extension programme, initially at Bull Arm Fabrication Site, then Navantia, El Ferrol. In February 2023, the vessel returned to Canada, as of 12th April is undergoing ...
The long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) of ships was established as an international system on 19 May 2006 by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as resolution MSC.202 (81). [1] This resolution amends Chapter V of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) , regulation 19-1 and binds all governments ...
The FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. It operates in the Sankofa offshore cape three point (OCTP - ENI) off the coast of Ghana . She is named after a former president of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor .