Expro International Group has won a contract to provide the process topsides for theBourbon Opale FPSO facility, which is being built in Norway.

The FPSO, owned by Bourbon Offshore Norway AS, a subsidiary of the French company Groupe Bourbon, can process crude oil from 14º to 40º API and associated gas. The topsides package includes a solids exclusion system, crude stabilization train, programmable logic controller (PLC) based control and shutdown system, and a fiscal metering package. Capacity will be up to 10,000 b/d, 5,000 b/d, and 26 MMcf/d of gas.

Engineering and fabrication of the new equipment is underway and will be completed in April. The process facility will then be installed on the vessel in the UK and operations will start in the Gulf of Mexico in early May. Once there, theBourbon Opale will replace an existing vessel operating for Pemex.

(02/23/04)