Offshore staff
MONACO – SBM Offshore has placed an order for construction of an additional Fast4Ward MPF hull for a newbuild FPSO with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding.
This brings the total number of hulls ordered under the company’s Fast4Ward program to six. Three are currently allocated to the FPSOs Liza Unity, Prosperity, and Sepetiba, due to work offshore Guyana and Brazil.
Construction of the Liza Unity and Prosperity hulls has finished, while work on the Sepetiba and hulls four and five is on track with the execution plan. Work on the sixth hull should begin during the second half of 2021.
The Liza Unity’s topsides module lifting campaign is under way and the topsides integration phase is progressing at the yards in Singapore, now operating at planned capacity following their re-opening during 3Q 2020.
Offshore Guyana, SBM’s Normand Installer vessel has successfully completed installation of the suction piles and mooring lines, now ready for pick-up and hook-up to the FPSO following its arrival.
The Liza Phase 2 project remains on schedule for first oil in 2022.
The FPSO Prosperity’s hull has been commissioned and is in lay-up in Batam, Indonesia. Engineering is said to be benefiting from synergies with the Liza Unity project, with planned completion in 2024.
As for the FPSO Sepetiba, topsides modules fabrication is advancing in Brazil and China. The Fast4Ward MPF hull will be launched from drydock in the current quarter with the project team presently focused on hull commissioning activities: the project should be completed by the end of 2022.
SBM has created a New Energies division to capitalize on opportunities for floating energy solutions in the energy transition. It is targeting at least 25% of its revenues to come from gas and renewables products by 2030, and last year spent more than 50% of its R&D budget on non-carbon technologies to promote energy transition and decarbonization.
Offshore southern France, the company has progressed engineering for the Provence Grand Large project for EDF Renouvelables, and is now entering the procurement and construction stage for the three 8.4-MW floaters and the mooring systems that are due to be installed offshore Marseille.
Construction of the first prototype for the Wave Energy Converter S3is progressing at the company’s R&D center with deployment offshore Monaco targeted for 2022.
02/11/2021
