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FPSO

Meaning in oil, gas & mining, with examples

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In oil, gas & mining, FPSO means: Short for floating production, storage and offloading unit: a ship-shaped vessel moored over an offshore field that processes oil from subsea wells, stores it and transfers it to tankers.

In Turkish: yüzer üretim, depolama ve boşaltma ünitesi, FPSO

How it is used

Said as letters (F-P-S-O). Common in deep-water and remote fields without pipelines, for example off Brazil and West Africa. Many are converted from old oil tankers. Words used with it include topsides, turret mooring, risers and offloading.

Example sentences

  1. The FPSO can store up to 1.6 million barrels of oil.

  2. A shuttle tanker loads crude from the FPSO about every ten days.

Common collocations

  • FPSO vessel
  • FPSO topsides
  • offloading
  • shuttle tanker
  • offshoreLocated or happening at sea, away from the coast, for example an oil field, platform or rig in the sea. The opposite is onshore.
  • platformA large structure standing on the seabed or floating at sea that holds the equipment and living quarters needed to drill wells or produce oil and gas offshore.
  • separatorA pressure vessel at a production facility that splits the mixed flow from the wells into oil, gas and water so that each can be treated and sent on separately.
  • storage tankA large container, usually a round steel tank, used to hold crude oil, fuels, water or chemicals at a terminal, refinery or production site.

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