Stones Development: Turritella FPSO - Design and Fabrication of the World's Deepest Producing Unit

摘要

The Stones Project is Shell Offshore Inc.'s ("Shell") play opener discovery in the emerging Lower Tertiary trend in the Gulf of Mexico ultra-deep water (9,500 ft. water depth). To address the step wise development of the Stones field, Shell selected a floating production, storage and offloading unit ("FPSO") for the floating production system. The Turritella FPSO is the deepest floating production system in the world and presented many challenges to successful execution of the surface host facilities.