Floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO)
Houston & London, 23 April 2018 - Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE: BHGE) has been awarded by Statoil Petroleum AS and Aker Solutions a contract to provide turbomachinery equipment for the topside structure for the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) to be located at the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea. BHGE’s scope of supply will include two gas turbine generators with LM2500+ G4 Dry Low Emission with Dual Fuel capability direct coupled with two poles electric generators. Each Gas Turbine Generator train will feature a Waste Heat Recovery Unit on its Exhaust system, that will allow the recovery of energy of the turbine fumes in order to maximize efficiency. The scope of supply will also include Balance of Plant (BOP) auxiliaries related to the gas turbines and to the waste recovery units. The scope of supply will be tested and preassembled into three industrial modules at BHGE’s Turbomachinery & Process Solutions centers of excellence of Massa and Avenza in Italy. The modules will be then shipped by Statoil to Singapore for final integration on the FPSO topside. The shipment of the modules is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2019.
Flenco is pleased to have been selected as preferred partner by BHGE to supply its auxiliary systems for this project. For further inquiries about this collaboration, you can ask your usual contact person at our Sales Department or complete and send us our contact form.