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    1. Vessels

    Vito hull and topsides connected

    Nov. 11, 2021
    Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas Boulevard Yard has completed the load-out and tandem lift of the topsides structure for Shell’s Vito FPU project in the US Gulf of Mexico.
    (Courtesy Sembcorp Marine)
    Tandem lift of the Vito topsides structure onto the FPU hull by a pair of goliath cranes.
    Tandem lift of the Vito topsides structure onto the FPU hull by a pair of goliath cranes.

    Offshore staff

    SINGAPORE – Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas Boulevard Yard has completed the load-out and tandem lift of the topsides structure for Shell’s Vito FPU project in the US Gulf of Mexico.

    Following load-out, the topsides structure was transported via the yard’s heavy-lift vessel Elite Prosperity and lifted onto the FPU hull using two goliath cranes with a combined lifting capacity of 30,000 metric tons (33,069 tons) and a 100-m (328-ft) hook height.

    Sembcorp’s Brazilian yard Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz is performing modification and integration work on the FPSO P-71, which will be deployed at Petrobras’ Itapu field offshore Brazil. The vessel is due to be delivered in 4Q 2022.

    The group is also continuing with pre-FID work on the circular Cambo FPSO which Siccar Point Energy aims to deploy west of Shetland. Sembcorp anticipates FID will follow soon.

    11/11/2021