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Offshore Report of production unit, accounting for more than two-thirds of the units to be con- structed. These units have the advantage of large process plant carrying capacity, storage capability, wide availability of secondhand tanker hulls, low prices on new hulls from Asian yards and relative- ly easy relocation from field to field.

Production spars will be the second favored production solution. They are particularly suited to deepwater. mid- sized fields that have access to pipeline infrastructure. A particular advantage of spars is their ability to accommodate dry trees, a major feature on fields with high paraffin content. TLPs, particular- ly the mini version, and production semis will make up the remainder of orders (see box 1, previous page).

Orders for shuttle tankers — A num- ber of fields in the ultra-deepwater sec- tor of the Gulf of Mexico are not within the economic reach of the existing pipeline infrastructure and shuttle

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ABB, BP. Chevron and Kvaerner signed an alliance agreement to perform a collaborative study designed to address the challenges associated with advancing seafloor processing technolo- gy for deepwater oil and gas reserves.

The group will analyze how to develop standardized, modular, compact and remotely operated facilities that would sit on the seafloor and could reduce the operating difficulties, costs and environ- mental impacts of deep-sea production.

It is anticipated that the result of the study will yield the following benefits: • New cost effective production facili- ties that are removable and will have parts that can be reused or recycled; • Increased oil recovery over tradition- al field development options such as floating production storage offloading; • Spin off technologies in the area of oil and gas treatment that could improve the operation of conventional facilities.

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