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yard) and lower turret components, and The FPSO unit is expected to be Oskari Jaakkola.

pre-commissioning of the FPSOs. The owned and operated by the joint venture Meanwhile, the VLCC conversion at two converted FPSO units, owned by company and will service on the Libra Jurong’s Tanjung Kling facility brings

France’s Total and operated by Italy’s pre-salt feld in the Santos Basin off- Jurong’s tally to 22 conversion projects

Saipem, will each have an oil treating shore Brazil, which is expected to start for MODEC. This project, involving

EyebrowProduction capacity of 115,000 b/d, a water injection operations in late 2016. The block covers conversion of the 300,955-dwt VLCC capacity of 200,000 b/d, a 100 MMscf/d approximately 1550sq km in around Centennial J, is scheduled for completion gas compression capac- by 4Q 2015 where- ity and a storage capac- upon the FPSO will ity of 1.7 MMbo. be deployed on the

One of the most TEN project in Ghana. recently-won projects MODEC will operate the at Jurong Shipyard, unit on behalf of Tullow also part of Sembcorp subsidiary Tullow

Marine, likely to take Ghana.

two years, involves the The unit will have conversion of Teekay’s capacity to produce and 130,596-dwt shuttle treat 80,000 b/d crude, tanker Navion Norvegia 65,000 b/d of produced into an FPSO to work water and 180 MMscf in ultra-deep waters gas. The unit, which in Brazil’s Santos will host several subsea

Basin. This conver- tiebacks from three sion, although a Jurong reservoirs, will also

The Kraken FPSO will sit ofshore the UK in the North Sea. Image from EnQuest.

contract, is actually be capable of storing being undertaken at 1.7 MMbo. The felds

Sembcorp Marine’s new lie in water depths of

Sembmarine Integrated 1-2000m and the FPSO

Yard at Tuas (SIY), will be about 25km from which opened during the Jubilee feld, oper- 2013 (OE: October 2013). ated by Tullow.

Currently the yard com- Malaysia’s Malaysia prises four large graving Marine & Heavy docks, all of which can Engineering (MMHE), accommodate ships up Pasir Gudang, part of to VLCC/ULCC (ultra the MBO Group, has large crude carrier) size. won two contracts for

The Navion Norwegia long term conversions, will be the frst conver- the frst involving a sion to be carried out tanker to a FSU and the this yard. second from a drilling

The Shell Stones project in Keppel. Photo by Alan Thorpe.

The contract, placed rig to a mobile offshore by OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG, a joint 2000m water depth (6500ft). The reser- production unit (MOPU).

venture between Brazil’s Odebrecht Oil voir depth is around 3500m (11,500ft). The frst contract involves EA & Gas and Teekay Offshore, is worth Brazil’s ANP has estimated that total Technique’s 47,172-dwt, 1996-built

US$696 million. Work will include gross peak oil production could reach 1.4 tanker Fois Nautica Tembikai, which will detailed engineering, installation and MMb/d. be converted by MMHE to a FSU for a integration of topside modules, installa- Finland’s Deltamarin has won the charter with Petronas for service off- tion of external turret and power genera- contract with Jurong Shipyard for the shore Malaysia. This the second similar tion, accommodation upgrading as well basic engineering of the Libra FPSO. The conversion carried out by MMHE for this as extensive piping and electrical cabling contract guarantees the continuation of owner, the Nautica Maua, having been works. Deltamarin’s involvement in the Libra completed in 2013.

Scheduled for completion 3Q 2016, project as the company has earlier par- The second new contract involves the FPSO will have the capacity to ticipated in the outline phase design of Coastal Energy’s jackup rig EP 7, formerly produce 50,000 b/d and 4 MMcm/d of the unit. “We are very happy to be a part Hercules 250, which will be converted to natural gas, and is expected to be char- of this fast track FPSO project and we a MOPU over the coming months. This is tered to Petrobras for work on the Libra strongly believe it will be a success for the third similar conversion carried out feld in the ultra-deepwater section of all parties. This contract shows the mar- by MMHE for this rig owner over the past

Brazil’s Santos Basin. Operating as an ket’s strong belief in Deltamarin’s ability few years. The yard is also carrying out a early well-test unit, the FPSO will be to perform in technically complex fast similar conversion involving the jackup on a 12-year charter once it begins its track offshore engineering projects,” rig Rubicon.

contract in late 2016.

says Deltamarin’s Offshore Director The fnal stages of a major subsea

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