Expro Group lands Bourbon Opale FPSO topsides for Pemex

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb. 24 -- Bourbon Offshore Norway AS, a unit of the French company Groupe Bourbon, has selected Expro International Group PLC to provide process topsides for the Bourbon Opale floating production, storage, and offloading vessel currently being built in Norway for Pemex.

The FPSO, designed to process as much as 10,000 b/d of 14-40º gravity crude oil, 5,000 b/d of water, and 26 MMscfd of associated gas, is scheduled to replace an existing vessel operating for Pemex in the Gulf of Mexico in early May.

Engineering and fabrication of the new equipment is under way and due for completion in April. The process facility will be installed on the vessel in the UK before its transfer to the gulf.