System Incorporating Subsea Equipment News

Petrobras's floating production, storage and offloading platform, FPSO BW Pioneer begins production from record depth. FPSO BW Pioneer, moored some 250 kilometers off the coast of the State of Louisiana in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, is the first FPSO to produce oil and gas in the Gulf, with processing capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil and 500,000 cm3 gas per day, and storage facilities for 500,000 barrels of oil. It is moored at a world-record water depth of 2,500 meters. The Chinook…