VALVE MAGAZINE Fall 2024

OFFSHORE PRODUCTION

OFFSHORE FPSO Vessels Demand Severe Service Valves Rising use of FPSOs requires manufacturers to design valves for the harshest environments. rocesses conditions.

BY: Rebecca O’Donnell and Teo Arcopinto, COMPANY: BAKER HUGHES

Rendering of the Barossa FPSO. Source: MODEC

Over the past 40 years, floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels have become a cost- effective source of oil and gas production in remote loca tions. These large vessels are self-sustaining storage and processing facilities on the ocean that generate their own power to prepare crude oil from wells into oil and gas for

pipeline distribution and oil tank transfer. The processes alone are challenging, but on an FPSO, the equipment must also be designed to fit into compact areas and specified for the marine environment.

Overhead view of an FPSO with major functions and process areas labeled. Source: SBM

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