FPSO

Technical safety standards are essential as global offshore exploration heats up.

The field, which holds the first production license on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, sent oil to the Jotun FPSO on 23 June.

Less than 3 months after going onstream, the Barents Sea project, the northernmost production offshore Norway, is producing 220,000 B/D.

Spanish yard will prep the almost 40-year-old FPSO for redeployment opportunities for new owner.

Once labeled “undrillable,” Brazil’s heavy-oil Atlanta field in the Santos Basin faced technical, financial, and logistical challenges. But through a phased approach, clever reuse of assets, and disciplined project execution, Brava Energia transformed a risky deepwater asset into a producing field with 172 million BOE in 2P reserves.

FPSO Nganhurra, laid up in Malaysia, produced Woodside’s Enfield field until the end of 2018.

FPSO is the fourth unit to go online in the deepwater pre-salt Mero field in 3 years.

The companies completed a technical assessment of the technology for use with floating production, storage, and offloading vessels.

Operator targets first oil 30 months after field sanction of $1.5 billion heavy-oil project that will use a refurbished wellhead platform and FPSO.

Hammerhead, the seventh planned project offshore Guyana, is expected to reach FID later this year and go on-stream in 2029.