The world’s largest floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, the M026 FPSO, embarked on its maiden voyage on Monday from a dock in Qidong City, located in east China’s Jiangsu Province. This marks a new towing record along the Yangtze River, owing to the vessel’s unprecedented size and capacity.
The M026 FPSO measures an impressive 335.31 meters in length, 60 meters in width, and 33.515 meters in height. The towing convoy spanned 784.2 meters, including the FPSO itself, patrol boats, tugboats, and escort vessels, underscoring the monumental scale of this maritime operation.
Constructed by COSCO (Qidong) Offshore Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., the vessel is slated for deployment in an ultra-deep-water oil development project in Brazil. The M026 FPSO is designed to produce 180,000 barrels of oil per day, process 12 million standard cubic meters of natural gas, and store up to 1.4 million barrels of crude oil.
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