Pazflor FPSO Off To Angola
The newbuild Pazflor floating production, storage offloading vessel is expected to sail away this month for Total-operated Block 17 in Angola from South Korea this week. The FPSO was officially named last week at a ceremony at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering’s yard in Okpo. The production floater is equipped with processing capacity for 200,000 barrels per day of oil and 4,248 cubic meters per day of natural gas and storage capacity of 1.9 million barrels.
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The floater will be installed in Total’s Pazflor field in Angola. Total has contracted Acergy before its merger with Subsea 7 to install the subsea structures ahead of the vessel’s arrival. First oil from Pazflor is scheduled to flow as early as this September. DSME won the USD 2.3 billion newbuild FPSO contract from Total in 2007. Total has contracted the South Korean yard operator to build another production floater at USD 1.8 billion for the Clov field in Angola.