Protecting lives and equipment worth billions of dollars
PRESS RELEASE
Protecting lives and equipment worth billions of dollars
14 July 2016: In orderto ensure employee safety and to prevent any infrastructural damage to a multi-billion dollar floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel located at a deep water oil project off the coast on Angola, a total of $1 million-worth of MSA General Monitors (GM) fixed flame and gas detection products have been supplied to the project.
The order was placed by Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider Bumi Armada Berhad (BAB), responsible for the chartering, operations and maintenance of the FPSO which, when completed by Q4 2016, will utilise an external turret with 18 risers and umbilicals connected to it, and a storage capacity of 1 800 000 barrels.
This fourth-generation FPSO will boast a crude oil production rate of 80 000 barrels a day and a water injection rate of 120 000 barrels per day, as well as a gas-handling capability of 120 000 million standard cubic feet. The FPSO will have a topside weight of 15 000 t, and will be moored at a water depth of 450 m. Reliable gas and flame detection is essential to a structure of this magnitude.
MSA Africa Director Colin Oliver explains that the products were delivered in late 2015. “As part of our value-added aftersales service offering, we have already provided product training to some BAB employees in Malaysia, and will also train the onsite employees once the FPSO is complete. Continuous technical support will also be provided.”
GM and MSA are trusted brands in Angola, Nigeria, Gabon and Ghana. Oliver says that GM is recognised as a global leader in hi-tech gas monitoring and flame detection instrumentation. “GM has been under the umbrella of MSA since 2010. This has enabled us to provide fully-comprehensive gas detection solutions to industries in these regions in the most competitive turnaround times.”
According to Oliver, this project will serve as a platform for MSA Africa to expand its presence in the highly-lucrative offshore oil industry. “This project has given us the opportunity to showcase our world-class capabilities. As oil, gas and petroleum exploration projects expand in Africa, so too does our window of opportunity for long-term sustainable growth,” he concludes.
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