FPSO Spread Mooring System Conversion Research

With the accelerated development of offshore oil and gas rng resources,Floating ProductionStorage and Offloading vessel(FPSO) as the representative of floating production systemspopular market favor. As with the other offshore oil and gas resources exploitation equippedwith good complementary, and can adapt to different seas, FPSO has been widely used in thedevelopment of oil fields among different quality. Since the beginning of2013, floatingproduction systems market is very hot, the world’s25or so types of orders received, the totalcontract value approaching$20billion. From the storage point of view, there are269sets offloating production systems which have been put into operation and can provide operationalservices in the world. FPSO which accounted for61%, the rest is semi-submersible drillingplatforms, floating storage regasification unit (FSRU), cylindrical drilling platform (SPAR),tension leg platform (TLP) and so on. This data is compared with five years ago, an increaseof22%, over10years ago, an increase of nearly80%. The orders from the handheld point ofview,72of floating production systems, including40FPSO. Obviously, FPSO has become athe "absolute main" in floating production systems market. Statistics "Offshore" magazine,among the global existing FPSO, about67%is modified, the new built amount is about33%.To be expected,FPSO capital spending will account for80%of the floating production systemsmarket capital spending during2013~2018,orders the amount of90to130, with a totalcontract value of up to$75billion. FPSO will undoubtedly become the biggest piece of"cake" in the market.Brazil and Africa is the main area of floating production unit project, which has50projects in Africa, there are49projects in Brazil, these two regions accounted for41%ofglobal floating production unit projects, Brazil has become the most actively traded FPSOregion, Brazil waters are more use of spread mooring ystem FPSO, this type of FPSO researchis still a large significance.By analyzing the FPSO mooring positioning system market, research status at home andabroad, according to yard ocean engineering modifications job system, FPSO "A","B" spreadmooring system modifications are briefly analyzed were compared from the technical design, dimension control, quality control, and other aspects of the construction mode, systematicallyforming a spread mooring system modification Guide.