FPSO due deepwater field off Angola

Oct. 13, 2006
BP PLC is set to install what is being called a super-large floating production, storage, and offloading vessel on deepwater Block 18 in its Greater Plutonio fields off Angola.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 13 -- BP PLC is set to install what is being called a super-large floating production, storage, and offloading vessel on deepwater Block 18 in its Greater Plutonio fields off Angola.

The 360,000-dwt FPSO, named after the fields, is 310 m long, 58 m wide, and 32 m high.

Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, the Greater Plutonio vessel has a storage capacity of 2 million bbl of crude oil and can handle production of about 200,000 b/d. Its living quarters can accommodate 120 crew members.