Conversion Of Large Crude Carrier Tankers To FPSO Vessels
Jun 02, 2010
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited (the “Company”)
wishes to announce that its subsidiary, COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd. (being a
subsidiary of the Company’s 51% owned subsidiary, COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd)
has secured two contracts totaling over US$100 million to convert two Large Crude
Carrier tankers, MT “Radiant Jewel” and “BW Nisa”, to Floating Production Storage and
Offloading (FPSO) vessels for a Japanese ship-owner and an European ship-owner
respectively. The conversion contracts involve repair and conversion of the vessels to
FPSOs.
The FPSO for the Japanese ship-owner is designed to operate for 20 years without drydocking
and it will have a production capacity of 24,000 M3 oil per day, 5,000,000 Nm3
gas per day and a storage capacity of 1,500,000 barrels of oil (“bbl”). The FPSO is
scheduled to be re-delivered to its owner around the third-quarter of 2011 and for
deployment in the Petrobras’ Tupi Oil Field, near Brazil.
The FPSO for the European ship-owner is designed to have an oil production capacity of
140,000 bbl per day, gas compression of 1,000,000 m3 per day and a minimum storage
capacity of 1,400,000 bbl. The FPSO is scheduled to be re-delivered to its owner
around the third-quarter of 2011 and for deployment in the Papa Terra Field, offshore
Brazil.
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) Limited
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