Sembawang Shipyard awarded first GoM FPSO
Offshore staff
(Mexico, GoM) - Sembawang Shipyard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has secured an S$88 million contract from Bergesen Worldwide Offshore to convert the Ultra Large Crude CarrierBW Enterprise into an FPSO.
Bergesen Worldwide Offshore, a company within the Bergesen Worldwide Group, will own and operate the FPSO under a 15-year term agreement with Pemex.
This is the first FPSO to be deployed in the GoM and will serve as a hub in the area and export terminal.
The contract calls for the 360,000 dwt tanker to be converted into an FPSO with capacity for 600,000 b/d inclusive of 200,000 b/d processing capacity with gas export capability. The shipyard will carry out detailed engineering, procurement of bulk materials, vessel's repair and conversion, installation of topside modules and the internal turret as well as precommissioning work.
Major conversion and upgrading work includes retrofit of the accommodation module to house 110 people. The shipyard will install all the pre-assembled topside modules including the process plant with capacity for 200,000 b/d, gas compression module with
capacity for 120 MMcf/d, and a flare system.
Upon completion, the FPSO will have the third largest oil production capacity of all existing FPSO units in the world and will have the largest throughput capacity for oil of any FPSO.
The vessel is scheduled for delivery from the shipyard in 4Q 2006. It will be stationed on the Ku-Maloob-Zaap field in Mexico's Bay of Campeche, located 105 km northwest of Ciudad del Carmen.
1/6/06