FPSO

An FPSO – Floating Production, Storage and Offloading – is a floating vessel designed to receive, produce and store hydrocarbons from nearby platforms or subsea wells until they can be offloaded onto a tanker or through a pipeline. An FPSO is normally a vessel up to 250m long, 40m wide and weighing approximately 90,000 Gt. Most FPSOs are fixed to the seabed with pattern of mooring lines and anchors, which may extend several kilometres from the vessel.