The deepwater drive that favours FPS

摘要

IT'S NOT SURPRISING that as a new report puts it "The FPS market is one of the key markets of the offshore industry today". That report, from independent energy research and analysis company Infield Systems Limited, tracks the rise in use of floating production systems (FPS) across the world and predicts a robust future market. FPS is booming because today we are exploring in areas regarded as impossible to reach only decades ago. How did we get to this point? High tech or hard work? Both, says Catarina Podevyn, Analyst — Business Strategy and Analysis - with independent energy research and analysis company Infield Systems and author of the new report. "Over the decades the accumulation of knowledge within offshore exploration and production has been interspersed with great leaps in technological innovation," she explained,