The gigantic drifting manufacturing, storage space as well as unloading system for Dana Petroleum’s Western Isles advancement job in the North Sea has actually gotten to Rotterdam complying with a seven-week journey from China.

The Western Isles FPSO was filled aboard COSCO Shipping’s brand-new semi-submersible hefty lift ship MV Xin Guang Hua in February complying with shipment from the Cosco shipyard inChina The FPSO, which has a storage space capability of as much as 400,000 barrels of oil, is the very first FPSO China has actually developed for an international nation.

Dana Petroleum’s $ 2 billion Western Isles Project includes the advancement 2 found oil areas called Harris as well as Barra in the Northern North Sea some 160km eastern of the Shetlands as well as 12km west of Tern area. The job includes a subsea advancement of at the very least 5 manufacturing as well as 4 water shot wells connected back to a newbuild FPSO, which will certainly unload straight to shuttle bus vessels for export.

The MV Xin Guang Hua was developed by Guangzhou Shipyard International in China as well as provided to its proprietor COSCO Shipping Heavy Transport in December 2016. With a deadweight of 98,000 tonnes, it is the second-largest semi-submersible hefty lift ship worldwide.

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