ABB, Yinson team up for offshore project in Brazil

ABB, Yinson team up for offshore project in Brazil

ABB has signed an agreement with energy solutions provider Yinson for electrical, control and telecommunication equipment and services onboard the FPSO Anna Nery bound for the Marlim 2 oil field in Campos Basin, Brazil.

Yinson secured the contract to convert the 2002 Crude Oil Tanker leading operations and maintenance of the FPSO. The vessel is planned to operate on the field for 25 years.

Leveraging its ABB Ability System 800xA control system with Select Input/Output (IO), ABB will take responsibility for integration engineering in the project, integrating all the production modules onboard the vessel into a combined Integrated Safety and Control System (ICSS).

Yinson's CEO Offshore Production, Flemming Grønnegaard added: "We are committed to deliver this FPSO in a lean, efficient, timely manner, and we believe that ABB's technology solutions and experience on numerous other projects of this nature will enable us to achieve this. Marlim 2 is an important project for Yinson, and given ABB's global experience and expertise, we have confidence in ABB as partners for FPSO Anna Nery.“

This is one of several offshore projects where ABB will utilise its Select IO for more efficient project execution. Select IO is an ethernet based, single-channel input output system, where field signals are