Singaporean shipbuilder Keppel Offshore & Marine has won a $2.9 billion contract to construct one of the world’s largest FPSOs for Brazil’s national oil company Petrobras. The contract covers the…
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Petroleo Brasileiro S.A (Petrobras) has awarded Keppel Offshore & Marine’s Keppel Shipyard subsidiary in Singapore has won an approximately US$2.9 billion order from for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the P-80 floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).
Scheduled for completion in the first half 2026, the P-80 is the second FPSO that Keppel O&M will be building for Petrobras for the Buzios field offshore Brazil. The first of the two, P-78, is currently...
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Industry best practices for addressing the challenges posed by an aging global Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) fleet have been published by ABS in a safety milestone for the sector. Enhancing Safety on FPSOs, Practical Considerations for Operations and Maintenance is the product of an ABS-led working group consisting of Chevron, Shell Trading (U.S.) Company, Petrobras, MODEC and SBM as well as The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI)...
The environment minister of Canada approved a much-debated offshore oil project on Wednesday. It is expected to see about 300 million barrels of oil extracted in 30 years and set back the extraordinary efforts made to curb climate changes.
In a statement, Steven Guilbeault mentioned that the Norway-based company Equinor’s development of oil discoveries located in the Flemish Pass Basin, about 500 kilometres toward the east of St. Johns in Newfoundland, had been able to pass an environmental...
An oil storage vessel that exploded off the Nigeria coast earlier this week was loaded with about 50,000-60,000 barrels full of crude oil. This was reported by Sharon Ikeazor, the Minister of Environment on Saturday.
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Nigeria’s Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL) reportedly informed that dark flames had completely blanketed the Trinity Spirit floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel after the blast.
A group of highly specialized government...
By Paul Burkhardt (Bloomberg) Trinity Spirit, the decades-old, oil-storage ship that blew up off the coast of Nigeria recently — killing some of its crew and spewing its contents into the…
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Three crew members on a Nigerian oil vessel that succumbed to a blast and sank last week were found alive. Seven continued to be missing, per the information shared by the ship operator.
Furthermore, during the early hours of Sunday 6 February, a dead body was found near the FPSO. The identity is yet to get ascertained.
A stringent Joint Investigation Visit or JIV with stakeholders, expert organizations, and relevant authorities took place on 5 February. The focus is on prioritizing...
Trinity Spirit, a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel with a capacity of processing about 22,000 barrels of oil daily can inject about 40,000 barrels of water daily, and also store two million barrels loaded with oil, has unexpectedly exploded. It has reportedly sunk near the Ukpokiti Terminal in Nigeria.
Reports suggested that 10 workers had been onboard the facilities, of which seven went missing, and three casualties were feared. The blast was also confirmed by the owner...
By William Clowes (Bloomberg) — An oil production ship exploded off the coast of Nigeria in what may prove to be the nation’s second major environmental setback in three months. The…
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A dedicated Kongsberg Maritime project team has successfully carried out a major upgrade of the Safety and Automation Systems on a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel belonging to the Norwegian oil exploration and development company Aker BP.
Formerly a tanker named Odin, the vessel was converted into an FPSO in 2008 and renamed Alvheim in recognition of the oil field in which it operates, located in the central part of the North Sea. However, its hull system was not...