"Sparks At Sea"
Life after the Cold War
FPSO Schiehallion
BP's FPSO Schiehallion, where I spend half my time these days. The Schiehallion FPSO is located the Schiehallion oil field in the north east Atlantic ocean approximately 140km NNE of Cape Wrath, to the west of the Orkney Islands.
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Technical Data Length: 245 metres Water depth: 395 metres |
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Produced gas is piped via Sullom Voe in Shetland to the Magnus field where it is re-injected to pressurise the formation. At the time of her building at Harland and Wolff of Belfast she was the largest new building of her type.
Processed crude is transferred
to a dedicated shuttle tanker, the 126,000 dwt Loch Rannoch, constructed
at Daewoo's shipyard in South Korea. The 850,000 barrel-capacity tanker, operated
by BP Shipping, maintains the transportation link with Sullom Voe on the basis
of a four to five day cycle.
FPSO
Schiehallion
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