The First FPSO in GoM: The Fourteen Year Journey - (PPT)

摘要

There are links in US GoM between reservoir conditions, well established extensive pipeline infrastructure and the choice of development solutions other than FPSOs; Fields that are particularly remote, with uncertain reservoir conditions, might favor another EPS such as BW Pioneer; Operator risk and field development philosophy IS a factor, e.g. compare Chevron and Petrobras: Jack St. Malo and Cascade/Chinook; Some field development solutions in US GoM have got accepted more quickly than FPSOs, e.g. Spars and TLPs. Curiously these two have been slow to catch on elsewhere in the world; Despite the ebb and flow of business since the 1940s, GoM based oil companies do remain a key influence in the worldwide market, and do seriously contemplate FPSOs for outside GoM waters; FPSOs are now considered more than ever for GoM, but another FPSO after BW Pioneer is not a sure thing, far less an FPSO for full field development.