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Geoffroy, C., Petrié, F., Vaché, M., Mitchell, K., Guedes Soares, C., Pascoal, R., Cappoen L. and Ival, N. (2006), “OCTOPLUS, a New Generation of FPSO for Deepwater - Actual Project Status by the End of a Three Years Development Study Today”, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE´06), 4-9 Junho, Hamburg, Germany, ASME, New York, USA, Paper OMAE2006-92501
FPSOs are usually converted tankers (VLCCs) or box-shaped new-built vessels. In either case, the hull provides oil storage capacity whereas process equipment, utilities and accommodations are spread over the deck area. The hull is built or converted following conventional shipyard practices before the topsides are installed as small pre-assembled units built to the offshore oil and gas standards.
The OCTOPLUS, a new concept of integrated Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) for deep waters and ultra-deep waters represents a new generation of FPSO designed to operate in deep waters. This concept allows the hull and the topsides to be built, transported and installed independently from each other. To provide confidence in the concept to potential end users, the integrity of the OCTOPLUS design has been assessed and evaluated during a three years study and development project including model testing.
Meantime, the cost, schedule, execution plan and operations of a development based on the OCTOPLUS was established and compared to a standard FPSO. This paper presents the results and conclusions of this three years EC project study and the actual development status of the OCTOPLUS concept.
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