ABB AND MODEC’S FOURTEENTH COLLABORATION SUPPORTS GROWING SOUTH AMERICAN FPSO MARKET

Offshore Frontier Solution Pte Ltd in Singapore – a joint venture between MODEC and Toyo Engineering Corporation – has awarded ABB the contract to deliver a complete electrical system and associated digital solutions on an ExxonMobil floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the South American Uaru oil field.

The offshore FPSO, named Errea Wittu, will be operated approximately 200 kilometres off the coast of Guyana. It is ExxonMobil’s fifth FPSO in Guyana and will combine the development of the Snoek, Mako and Uaru resources in the Stabroek block. Expected to be operational by 2026, with an initial production capacity of 250,000 barrels of oil per day, the vessel will also have an associated gas treatment capacity of 540 million standard cubic feet per day.

ABB will deliver a topside and hull electrical system to the vessel through a pre-built ABB eHouse modular substation, which reduces risk exposure and costs by commissioning, installing and testing all electrical systems at the shipyard prior to deployment offshore, and enables faster speed to market. In addition, the company will supply power management solutions which will serve to optimize energy efficiency and asset availability of all electrical equipment supplied.

ABB’s Energy Transition Equation report for the offshore oil and gas sector delivers insights into how FPSO operators can reduce carbon emissions by up to 320,000 tons per site each year through the application of electrification, automation and digital technologies, which enable a move to minimally crewed operations.