The award marks the eleventh major floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) design that KBR has been involved with in the past decade. Pazflor’s design is a purpose-built FPSO with a topsides weight of 32,200 metric tons.
Total’s Angolan subsidiary, Total E&P Angola has awarded Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to construct the vessel’s moorings, hull and topsides.
It is designed with a processing capacity of 200,000 barrels per day of oil, 150 million cubic feet per day of gas, and a storage capacity of about 1.9 million barrels of crude. First oil production on Pazflor is scheduled in 2011.
Pazflor’s service area includes the Perpetua, Acacia, Zinia and Hortensia fields, which lie in the eastern portion of Block 17 approximately 150km from the Angolan coast. The FPSO will be spread-moored in a depth of approximately 2500 feet atop 25 subsea oil wells, two gas injection wells and 22 water injection wells. DSME will construct the vessel at its fabrication yard in South Korea.
