Keppel converting VLCC to FPSO for U.S. Gulf

摘要

Singapore's Keppel Shipyard Limit-ed won the contract for the conversion of the first Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The contract was awarded by BW Pioneer Ltd., an affiliate of BW Offshore, for the conversion of a 1981-built, 155,000 dwt tanker into an FPSO for operation in the deepwater Cascade and Chinook development, about 180 miles offshore of south Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.