A ceremony was held on Sept 9, 2022, to announce completion of the N999 Tortue Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) platform, the world's largest natural gas treatment FPSO platform.
The N999 Tortue Floating Production Storage and Offloading platform is completed on Sept 9, 2022. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Designed and built by China COSCO SHIPPING Corporation Limited, the platform is the first of its kind built by a Chinese company with entrustment of British energy group BP plc.
The platform is 270 meters long and 54 meters wide and has a maximum displacement of about 320,000 metric tons. It covers an area of two football pitches and is as high as a 10-storey building. It is designed to serve for 30 years and is able to store at least 1.44 million buckets.
With a 22-meter-long and 41-meter-wide living area, the platform can provide accommodation for 140 workers.
A night view of the N999 Tortue Floating Production Storage and Offloading platform [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
The upper part of the facility consists of five piping racks and eight oil and gas processing and production modules. Reception of the liquid, gas-liquid separation, and gas condensate removal and stabilization will be done in this part.
The N999 Tortue FPSO platform berths at a port. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Once operational, the part is expected to handle 500 million standard cubic feet (about 14.16 million cubic meters) of gas daily.
The platform is expected to be in operation in coastal areas of West Africa, playing a key role in development of an international-level liquefied natural gas hub and contributing to green energy development.
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
