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PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY

TRENDSETTER VULCAN OFFSHORE

YINSON PRODUCTION tems to operate safely in shallow water.

Trendsetter Adapts Tethered BOP Tech to Man-

According to Trendsetter, the customized system en- age Fatigue Risks Ofshore abled stable operations during critical phases of the well

Trendsetter Vulcan Offshore has completed the installa- tion of a tethered blowout preventer system (TBOP) in the and helped manage fatigue risks in conditions that posed

Gulf of America to address wellhead fatigue in soft seabed elevated technical challenges.

conditions. The system, based on the company’s Hercules

Agogo FPSO Hosts Ofshore Carbon Capture Sys- tethered BOP technology, was adapted for a completion tem on Industry First project in the Central Gulf of America in water depths of

Yinson Production has started operating a pilot carbon nearly 4,000 feet.

The technology uses four polyethylene-based tethers capture and storage (CCS) unit on the Agogo foating anchored to suction pile foundations to control blowout production, storage and offoading (FPSO) vessel offshore

Angola, which is deemed the world’s frst post-combustion preventer stack movement above the wellhead, transfer- ring loads to the seabed and reducing cyclic stress on the CO2 capture plant installed on an offshore facility.

The system has been developed in collaboration with well system. Trendsetter said the system was deployed in response to challenging seabed conditions that could lead Azule Energy and Norway-based Carbon Circle.

The unit is operating under real production conditions to increased fatigue loading on the wellhead.

The Hercules system was originally developed to allow on the Agogo FPSO, which is part of the Agogo Integrated

West Hub project in Block 15/06 offshore Angola.

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