Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has contracted for one FPSO with Inpex on March 8, it announced.
The floating production, storage & offloading unit costs around $2bn and is Daewoo's second largest FPSO otder intake after 'Pazflor FPSO', totalling $2.1bn, ordered in 2007.
The newly contracted 'Ichthys FPSO', 336m in length and 59m in breadth, weighs about 110,000 tons. It is capable of producing 85,000 barrels of oil in a day and store up to 1.14m barrels.
The FPSO is contracted on a turn-key basis and Daewoo takes charge of every process from engineering to commissioning of both hull and topside. With due delivery in April 2016, Ichthys FPSO will be operate in Ichthys field of Australia.
Daewoo's cooperative companies would be involved in the project - Shinhan Machinery (accomodation), Daewoo's affiliated company in Shandong China DSSC (flare tower), Samwoo Heavy Industry (pipe rack), etc.
Meanwhile, the South Korean shipbuilder has secured overall seven ships/units totalling about $2.76bn of orders year-to-date.
*Source: asiasis.com |
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