Global Floating Production Storage And Offloading Vessels (FPSO)

Global Floating Production Storage And Offloading Vessels (FPSO)

• FPSOs in Africa
• FPSOs in Asia
• FPSOs in Australasia
• FPSOs in Europe
• FPSOs in North America
• FPSOs in South America

Introduction

A floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the processing of hydrocarbons and for storage of oil. An FPSO vessel is designed to receive hydrocarbons produced from nearby platforms or subsea template, process them, and store oil until it can be offloaded onto a tanker or, less frequently, transported through a pipeline. FPSOs are preferred in frontier offshore regions as they are easy to install, and do not require a local pipeline infrastructure to export oil. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used only to store oil (without processing it) is referred to as a floating storage and offloading vessel (FSO). See FPSO-Floating Production, Storage and Offloading

• FPSO Template