On September 9th, I honorably joined 350 people to witness the completion ceremony for the world’s largest natural gas processing FPSO N999 Tortue designed and built by Qidong COSCO SHIPPING Offshore Engineering.
This FPSO will serve BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) LNG project in Mauritania and Senegal.The vessel is 70 meters long, 54 meters wide, and 31.5 meters deep. The designed service life is 30 years and the oil storage capacity is not less than 1.44 million barrels. The living quarters can accommodate 140 people.The GTA project will produce gas from an ultra-deepwater subsea system and mid-water FPSO vessel, which will process the gas, removing heavier hydrocarbon components. The gas will then be transferred to a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility at a nearshore hub located on the Mauritania and Senegal maritime border.
More than 350 people including executives from BP Group and Technip Energy attended this important moment.
Attendees were also invited to tour the FPSO on the yard.
