Gimboa FPSO
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Summary Information
- Name: Gimboa FPSO
- Field: Gimboa Oil Field
- Country: Angola
- Ownership: Sonangol
- Website:
- Field Operated By:
- Capacity: 60,000 bpd
- Year of Completion:
+++ Brief Description
- A convertion of the oil tanker VLCC Magdeline with a storage capacity of 1,800,000 barrels and a production capacity of 60,000 barrels of oil per day.
+++ Contractors
- **Saipem:** Contract for the provision and management of a FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) vessel
- **Drydocks World:**
* Fabricating and installing spread mooring system and riser balconies * Installing new crude lines on the deck; installing and connecting the metering skid with hook up to the tandem offloading system * Fabricating and installing flare tower, a pipe rack running on the centre line, module supports and 12 production modules
- **VWS Westgarth:** Water Treatment
+++ Status
- In operation
+++ History
- 2006 - Saipem awarded contract
- 2008 - Conversion completed
- 2009 - First production
- 2014 - Contract extended until 2017
+++ Other Information
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