Singapore, 3 July 2010 - Maersk FPSOs today named the latest addition to its fleet of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels.
Mrs Eva Ruud, wife of Mr Morten Ruud, Executive Vice President Projects for Statoil, officially named the newbuilding Maersk Peregrino during a ceremony at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore.
“We are very proud to have accomplished this substantial project which will further expand the comprehensive partnership the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group has with Statoil in numerous places around the world. Statoil and the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group share a common goal in having the highest safety standards and a dedicated focus on environmental aspects. This project has been a great mutual journey towards the best solutions in every detail,” says Paul Carsten Pedersen, Chief Executive of Maersk FPSOs.
Maersk Peregrino will be chartered to Statoil for the development of the Peregrino oil field in the Campos Basin, located approximately 85km off the coast of Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. The FPSO will operate for an initial period of 15 years, with the possibility of extending for another 15. First oil is expected in January 2011.
Single largest investment in Group’s history
More than 14 million manhours have been spent on the project, involving workers from at least 27 nationalities. When the work peaks, nearly 3,000 people are employed, making the Maersk Peregrino the largest investment the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group has made in one single vessel.
“Maersk Peregrino will strengthen the Group’s presence in South America. Our investment in this FPSO vessel along with its advanced technologies also demonstrates that we are in Brazil for the long haul – to help develop Brazil’s oil potential,” explained Pedersen.
Conversion project that spanned the globe
Constructing the Maersk Peregrino has been an international affair, involving a multitude of contractors.
“We are pleased that the project has been going well and that it is on schedule. I believe this is due to excellent project leadership and very skilled people involved at both the yard and in the project. Maersk Peregrino is a prime example of the importance of having highly qualified partners like Keppel Shipyard and J. Ray McDermott in Singapore, as well as competent and well-trained staff around the world who can cater for global as well as local projects and tasks,” added Pedersen.
While the project is controlled by Maersk FPSOs in Denmark, the front end engineering design was carried out in Brazil, main engineering in Denmark, Norway, the USA, India and Singapore. Parts of the processing facilities have been supplied from USA, Brazil and various European and South East Asian countries. The process modules were built in Indonesia and final integration onboard the ship took place in Singapore.
State-of-the-art FPSO vessel with innovative technologies
Maersk Peregrino is a state-of-the-art FPSO fitted with innovative technologies and capable of significant power generation. The vessel is unique in its complexity, and the reason for this is the texture of the oil in the field where it will operate.
The Peregrino oil field holds heavy crude oil with high viscosity which requires advanced technologies to process. Put simply, the FPSO needs to generate enough heat to separate oil from gas, sand and water. Storage of the crude oil also requires heating to prevent it from solidifying in tanks. The production facilities onboard Maersk Peregrino are therefore highly specialized. The vessel is equipped with two production trains and three steam boilers, using a system that has been specially designed to process the heavy crude oil in the field, and taking into consideration the highest possible safety standards.
With a width of 58 meters, and 345 meters in length, the FPSO is about the size of three standard football fields put together. It will operate at a water depth of 100 meters and has 15 modules weighing more than 12,500 tons installed on it. The topside modules include a water treatment plant, crude separation plant, chemical injection plant, electrical building and electricity generation plant. About 1000km of cables will also be installed on the vessel. There is enough accommodation for 100 people onboard Maersk Peregrino.
Maersk Peregrino is capable of handling a daily production capacity of 100,000 barrels of oil, 350,000 barrels of liquid and 7.3 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. It has a storage capacity of 1.6 million barrels of oil.
To provide enough power for all activities on the vessel and the drilling platforms, Maersk Peregrino has three steam turbines capable of producing 72 mega watts of electrical power, enough to power up 150,000 homes.
The delivery of Maersk Peregrino from Keppel Shipyard marks the completion of the conversion of Maersk Nova, a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) built in 2008. The conversion project began in 2008, and the FPSO vessel is scheduled to set sail for its base in the Peregrino field in October 2010.
About Maersk FPSOs
Established in 1995 as Maersk Contractors, Maersk FPSOs is a significant supplier of floating production solutions and offers customised field development solutions for oil companies. Its fleet presently consists of five Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSOs) and a Jack-Up Production Module, deployed in the North Sea, Norway, Australia, West Africa and Brazil. Maersk FPSOs is part of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group and employs an international staff of approximately 1000 in offices all over the world.
For more information, please visit http://www.maersk-fpsos.com.
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