Pazflor FPSO

Summary Information

• Name: Pazflor FPSO
• Field: Pazflor Oil Field
• Country: Angola
• Ownership: Total
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• Field Operated By: Total
• Capacity: 200,000 bpd
• Year of Completion: 2011

+++ Brief Description

• At 325 metres long and 62 metres wide and weighing 120,000 tons, the Pazflor FPSO is the world’s largest floating production, storage and offloading vessel. It is a new build
• The vessel is designed with a processing capacity of 200,000 barrels per day of oil, 150 million cubic feet per day of gas, and a storage capacity of about 1.9 million barrels of crude

+++ Contractors

• **KBR:** Contract to Provide Engineering, Procurement and Design Interface Services for Pazflor FPSO Topsides
• **Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering:** Construction of the FPSO vessel
• **BW Offshore:** Engineering, Procurement, Supply, Construction and Installation (EPSCI) of the Oil Loading System
• ** Dyna-Mac:** One unit of topside module and eight units of skids
• **VWS Westgarth:** Water treatment
• **Dresser-Rand:** Supply of four DATUM(R) centrifugal compression trains

+++ Status

• In operation

+++ History

• 2008 - KBR Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering, Procurement and Design Interface Services for Pazflor FPSO Topsides
• January 18, 2011: the FPSO departs its South Korean shipyard for Angola, a journey of more than 20,000 kilometres. 
• 2011 - The giant Pazflor development was inaugurated by Angola's Minister of Petroleum, Chairman and CEO of Sonangol and Chairman and CEO of Total,

+++ Other Information

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Links

1. VWS Westgarth FPSO References
2. International Protective Coatings FPSO References
3. KBR Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering, Procurement and Design Interface Services for Pazflor FPSO Topsides
4. Dresser-Rand Selected to Supply $44 million of Equipment to Total for FPSO
5. BW Offshore receives LoA from Total E&P Angola
6. Inauguration of Pazflor, Angola’s latest deepwater giant development