Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine will carry out an FPSO conversion for Yinson for a vessel destined for the Offshore Cape Three Points (SEN, 32/1) development offshore Ghana.

The work, which is expected to get underway in first-quarter 2016, includes modification work, new equipment installation complete with associated piping, electrical and instrumentation systems as well as installation and integration of the FPSO process topsides.

A consortium of GE Oil & Gas and Oceaneering last year won a deal to deliver the subsea scope for the project, including the subsea production and control system (SPS) and umbilicals’ engineering as well as project management, fabrication, transport and testing.

Oceaneering will supply 51 km of electro-hydraulic, steel tube umbilicals.

Keppel in Singapore also is set to convert another vessel into a LNG floating storage unit (FSU) for Bumi Armada.

Work on the LNG FSU conversion is scheduled to be completed in third-quarter 2016, and it will operate at the Delimara LNG Regasification Terminal in Malta.

Chow Yew Yuen, CEO of Keppel O&M, said, “This is the 14th conversion/upgrading project that we are undertaking for Bumi Armada. It is also their first LNG FSU conversion project.”

Meanwhile, Keppel’s BrasFELS shipyard in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has won an FPSO integration contract from Modec for work on the Cidade de Caraguatatuba vessel, which will be deployed to the Lapa Field in the Santos Basin. It is expected to arrive at BrasFELS in second-quarter 2016. In the past five years, BrasFELS has completed five FPSO projects, of which three were for companies affiliated to Modec.

Rounding off the new deals for Keppel, the Caspian Shipyard Co. has secured a barge enhancement contract from BP, operator of the Shah Deniz gas field development.

The work involves strengthening the steel structure of the hull of the STB-1 vessel, a purpose-built jacket transportation and launch barge.

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