UAE Business: Drydocks World to upgrade FPSO vessel for Brazil’s Enauta – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Drydocks World to upgrade FPSO vessel for Brazil’s Enauta – Gulf Digital News

Drydocks World has signed a contract with Malaysia-based Yinson Production to upgrade, refurbish, and convert a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for Enauta independent oil and gas company in Brazil.

The contract with Yinson Production, which designs, constructs, and operates industry-leading production assets for the offshore oil and gas industry – covers conversion and life extension services, as well as refurbishment for the FPSO Atlanta at Drydocks World-Dubai.

The upgraded FPSO will be completed in 18 months and delivered in the third quarter of 2023 to Enauta at the offshore Atlanta Field in the Santos Basin.

Technical scope

The technical scope of work for the project at the Drydocks World-Dubai shipyard includes production engineering, procurement of bulk material, construction as well as support for onshore commissioning.

Additionally, the redeployment scope of the project includes steel renewal, piping refurbishment, tank coating, refurbishment of equipment, and the upgrade of an FPSO for operation at the Atlanta field in the Santos basin, Brazil.

This includes life extension and installation of new equipment in order to utilise 100% of produced gas and minimising greenhouse gas emissions.

FPSO vessels vital

FPSO vessels are vital to offshore oil operations, receiving crude oil and other liquids from subsea reservoirs and separating it into