Floating production systems
Shell has demonstrated drone-in-a-box operations from its Mars floating production unit, becoming the first operator in the region to secure FAA approval for self-approved offshore beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights. JPT Senior Technology Editor Jennifer Pallanich visited Shell Technology Center Houston to see the system in action.
This paper explores the application of a modular, high-temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor to a Very Large Crude Carrier-class floating production, storage, and offloading vessel.
After launching pre-salt production in Brazil, the ultradeepwater Tupi asset has become one of Petrobras’s most productive.
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Project financing raised by JP Morgan will enable YPF and its partners Eni and ADNOC’s XRG to launch Phase 2 of Argentina LNG, boosting production to 18 mtpa by 2030–2031. -
First oil is expected from Phase 1 of the project in 2028, with up to four more phases planned.
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Production from the Búzios field now tops 1 million B/D with six floating production systems in operation and more on the way.
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Mozambique is poised to become Africa’s third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas when Coral Norte comes onstream in 2028.
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MODEC will supply the FPSO that will host up to 18 wells in the initial phase of development.
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BW Opal FPSO has capacity for 850 MMcf/D of gas, which will be treated and sent on to the Darwin LNG facility, and 11,000 B/D of condensate, which will transferred via tanker.
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Supermajor BP awards contract to same specialists who commissioned its Argos platform.
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As a champion of floating natural gas liquefaction technology, Eni is positioning itself to play a major role in Africa with a fast-growing gas-liquefaction capacity targeted to reach 14 million tonnes per year by 2028.
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The Japanese company ratcheted up the competitive nature of contracting for a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel and an onshore liquefied natural gas plant for the Abadi project by announcing dual front-end engineering design (FEED) contracts.
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Deepwater Yellowtail project, onstream 4 months ahead of schedule, is expected to produce an average of 250,000 BOPD.
