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With more than 270 floating systems in operation to date, the market for FPSOs has proven to be a lucrative space for oil
and gas operators. Although the current low oil price has caused many projects to be postponed, FPSOs will continue to
be the most cost-effective solution to access frontier offshore regions. As a look back at the history of FPSO development
shows, this is certainly not the first market downturn to affect the industry and the popularity of FPSOs will rise again.
1937
Pure Oil, current day Chevron, and its partner Superior Oil, now
ExxonMobil, use a fixed platform to develop a field one mile
offshore off Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana in 14 feet of water.
Kerr-McGee Industries, current day Anadarko
Petroleum, in cooperation with Phillips
Petroleum (ConocoPhillips) and Stanolind Oil
1946
1947
& Gas (BP), finished the Ship Shoal Block 32 project, making it
THE FIRST OIL DISCOVERY DRILLED OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND.
1961
THE FIRST SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE IS CREATED, somewhat by
accident, when the Blue Water Drilling Company and Shell Oil
Company decided to tow their submersible drilling rig Blue Water
Rig No.1 in the Gulf of Mexico. As the pontoons were not sufficiently
buoyant to support the weight of the rig, it was towed at a draught
midway between the top of the pontoons and the underside of the
deck. It was observed that the motions at this draught were very
small, leading Blue Water Drilling and Shell to jointly decide that the
rig could be operated in this floating mode.
Ocean Driller becomes the first
purpose built drilling semi-submersible.
1963
1975
1977
A converted semi-submersible
drilling rig called Transworld
58 is deployed as the worlds
first semi-submersible floating
35
1980
1981
SBM OFFSHORE PROVIDES THE WORLDS FIRST LEASED FPSO.
per barrel.
1985
1986
The OIL PRICE COLLAPSES by nearly
half, resulting in a loss of revenue for
oil-producing countries such as those in
Northern Europe, the Soviet Union and OPEC.
SONANGOL SANCTIONS
THE WORLDS LARGEST FPSO
1991
1998
1993
The first permanent FPSO in the North Sea sees first oil. The
Gryphon FPSO is operated in partnership between Maersk Oil UK
(86.5 percent) and Sojitz (13.5 percent) and can store 540,000 bbl.
2004
ESSO EXPLORATION ANGOLA BEGINS TO RECOVER OIL FROM
2005
2006
For the first time, A PETROBRAS-LED FPSO BW PIONEER - WAS
APPROVED FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO on the Cascade/Chinook
2007
Nearly 190 FPSO systems have been installed globally
when the FIRST LNG CARRIER CONVERSION TO AN
LNG FLOATING STORAGE AND REGASIFICATION UNIT (FSRU)
Golar Spirit-is undertaken at Singapores Keppel shipyard,
contracted by Petrobras and build by Kawasaki Shipbuilding
Corporation. The vessel began operation in 2009.
2008
THE MONDO, SAXI AND BATUQUE FIELDS BEGIN
BP submits plan for the joint development of the Skarv and Idun
fields in the North Sea, off the coast of Norway. BP awards the
2009
JULY
145
DECEMBER
30.3
The worlds first drilling FPSO (FDPSO) makes way to the Congo for
2011
2012
PETRONAS JOINS WITH THE TECHNIP AND DSME CONSORTIUM
for the procurement, engineering, construction, installation and
commissioning of the worlds first floating liquefaction unit on the
Kanowit gas field off Sarawak, Malaysia, following a
FEED contract in 2011. The $771-millon contract
L N G
LNG, boosting
Malaysias total
25.7 mtpa to
BORNEO
26.9 mtpa.
2013
2014
ENI AND BUMI
ARMADA BERHAD
Egina FPSO project will cost $3.5 billion, also making it the most
ANNOUNCE THEIR
$3-BILLION CONTRACT
for the chartering, operations
and maintenance of a FPSO
for deployment at the East
2016
2015
Global capital spending on newbuild and converted FPSOs is set
to reach $8.65 billion, with most efforts geared towards South
American and West Africa exploration ventures.
2019
2017
Premier oil is set to achieve first oil from its
Catcher project, which it owns and operates
in the North Sea, 180 kilometres from the
2020
20 - 21 September 2016,
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore