Friday 27 July 2018

Keppel Offshore & Marine's wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Shipyard, is on track to deliver a Floating Production Storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) to Dixstone holdings, an affiliate of the Perenco Group (Perenco) on time and with a strong safety record. Scheduled for delivery in 3Q 2018, it will be deployed to the Yombo field operated by Perenco off the Republic of the Congo, Africa.

The FPSO was named La Noumbi at Keppel Shipyard on 26th July which was witnessed by Mr Jean-Marc Thysthere Tchicaya, Minister of Hydrocarbons, Republic of the Congo.

Keppel Shipyard's work scope on the conversion of the crude oil tanker into an FPSO included the installation and integration of topside process skids, fabrication of a new accommodation module as well as life extension works.

La Noumbi will be capable of producing 12,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd), processing 120,000 barrels of water per day and storing 762,062 barrels of oil.