Deltamarin signed a contract with the Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider, Bumi Armada, for the basic design of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. Bumi Armada had secured a contract in November 2013 to supply an FPSO unit to operate in the oil company EnQuest’s Kraken field, which is located in an area with challenging environmental conditions in the UK sector of the North Sea.
Deltamarin has earlier provided Bumi Armada with technical support in the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) phase for the conversion of an existing oil tanker into an FPSO. Deltamarin’s present scope of work covers the further development of the FEED phase material into a class approved full basic package including naval architecture, structural and strength analysis, steel outfitting, marine/utility and HVAC, accommodation, HSE and electric and instrumentation.
The turret-moored FPSO will have a storage capacity of 600,000 barrels. The vessel will be 285.41m in length and 50m in breadth. The total contract value of Deltamarin’s basic design work, to be carried out over an estimated period of six months, is around EUR 3.6M.