P-48 started production
Petroleo Brasileiro, a Petrobras Brazilian international energy company, announced that the platform P-48, the second platform of the Barracuda and Caratinga complex in the Campos basin, started production.
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FPSO designs adapt to harsh northerly/sub-tropical conditions
Each floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) project is a learning process, prone to pitfalls. This was a recurring theme at the International Conference on Floating Production Systems in London last February, organized by the Institute of Petroleum.
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Telemetry/berthing control multiplex designed for Girassol offloading
A new design of telemetry and berthing aid system (TBAS) to improve safety during floating production system maneuvers has been deployed on the Girassol development offshore Angola.
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FLOATING PRODUCTION: Study shows $42 billion market for floating production systems
The next five years could see 123 floating production systems (FPSs) of various types coming onstream with a newbuild value of $42 billion.
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DEEPWATER OPERATIONS: Midwater processing pipe bundle
System reduces deep flow assurance risk and renders temperature pressure challenges irrelevant.
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FLOATING PRODUCTION: Why drilling space comes at least cost on floating production vessels
Lowering life-of-field costs
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MOORING/ANCHORING TECHNOLOGY: 250-ft tall turret with 45 risers, 10 mooring lines squeezed into Espadarte FPSO
Chain jacks replace conventional winches
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Norway improving tax conditions for FPSO leasing
Aker Maritime's Buoyform concept is aimed at small fields. [23,672 bytes] The tentech FPSO design has been further developed to include a drilling capability. [53,878 bytes] Fred Olsen Production's Fobox is intended for ultra deepwater developments. [19,054 bytes] The floating production market in Norway is expected to receive a boost before long with a change in the tax system that will bring fiscal neutrality for licensees between owning and leasing floating production systems.
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Petrobras bringing new production onstream
Petrobras' Marlim and Roncador Fields in Brazil's Campos Basin. Petrobras has broken yet another deepwater record for both completions and production on its Marlim South-3 well in the Campos Basin. Petrobras has recently performed the subsea completion of the well at a water depth of 5,607 ft, making it the world's deepest producing offshore oil or gas well as well as the first production ever beyond the one mile water depth mark.
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DEEPWATER EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION Floating production facilities key to lower cost deepwater development
Peter Behrenbruch BHP Petroleum Enserch's Garden Banks 388 floating production unit (not storage), along with Petrobras' new Marlim production semisubmersibles, continue to push the limits for mooring spreads. Thirteen different FPSO mooring configurations, derived from four basic units, are in use today. (Source: Behrenbruch, modified after Goodfellow) Table: Geographical distribution of floating production facilities. Table: Applications of floating production facilities. Table:
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Latin America Action heating up in Mexico's offshore
David Shields Contributing Editor - Mexico A typical Campeche drilling platform. Offshore oil and gas production has made a great contribution to Mexico's economy over the past 15 years. In recent times, the value of output has been close to US$10 billion annually. This contribution seems destined to remain vital to the country's economic well-being.
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FLOATING PRODUCTION FPSO monohull powerful tool in North Sea field development
Nick Terdre Contributing Editor - Norway Golar-Nor's converted production ship, Petrojarl IV, will be deployed on BP's Foinaven Field, west of the Shetlands. The physical shape of future production facilities in the North Sea appears to be to a large extent monohulled. In the last couple of years the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, or the production ship, has suddenly moved to center stage as operators and contractors agree that its time has come.
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