FPSO

Zhou, Ke

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_1-1

Ke Zhou⁴

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FPSO (floating production storage and offloading); SPM (single-point mooring)

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A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons and for the storage of oil. A FPSO vessel is designed to receive hydrocarbons produced by itself or from nearby platforms or subsea template, process them, and store oil until it can be offloaded onto a tanker or, less frequently, transported through a pipeline. FPSOs are preferred in frontier offshore regions as they are easy to install and do not require a local pipeline infrastructure to export oil. FPSOs can be a conversion of an oil tanker or can be a vessel built specially for the application. A vessel used only to store oil (without processing it) is referred to as a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_production_storage_and_offloading).

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Ke Zhou

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Hadal Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
Weicheng Cui
School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Shixiao Fu
School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Zhiqiang Hu

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School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Zhiqiang Hu
Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
Weicheng Cui

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Zhou, K. (2020). FPSO. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_1-1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_1-1
Received: 05 June 2019
Accepted: 06 June 2019
Published: 15 November 2019
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-6963-5
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-6963-5
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