{"id":155997,"date":"2015-09-30T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=155997"},"modified":"2015-09-30T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T11:39:20","slug":"ghanas-new-fpso-named-after-late-john-mills-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/09\/ghanas-new-fpso-named-after-late-john-mills-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana’s new FPSO named after late John Mills [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first Lady Lordina Mahama has officially named Ghana’s Second Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Vessel, FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills at a ceremony held at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>[contextly_sidebar id=”BKey6CfYM8jGPofrqIMZkpuSwN62qvdS”]Lordina Mahama, who led Ghana’s delegation to the naming ceremony, performed the symbolic act of breaking the bottle of Champagne to signify the naming of the vessel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n According to her, the FPSO was named after Ghana’s late President Prof. Evans Atta Mills because he saw the birth of Ghana\u2019s offshore oil industry.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The naming of the FPSO after him was also to pay tribute to his achievements and leadership.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The FPSO, is expected to leave Singapore by close of 2015\u00a0for its six-week journey to Ghana.<\/p>\n <\/a>The Chief Executive Officer of Tullow Oil Plc, Aiden Heavey, said Tullow was proud to be working with the government of Ghana to develop Ghana\u2019s fledging oil industry.<\/p>\n \u201cOur corporate mission is to create shared prosperity through such projects.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the fast-track completion of the FPSO was made possible largely due to the hard work and dedication of MODEC (the primary engineering contractor for the construction of the FPSO).<\/p>\n <\/a>The naming ceremony signified the readiness of the vessel to set sail for Ghana.<\/p>\n It also means that the Ten Project Partners have reached an advanced phase of the efforts at producing oil from the Ten Field on schedule – by mid 2016.<\/p>\n The Ten Field project is being managed by a partnership comprising Tullow Ghana Limited, Kosmos Energy, Anadarko Petroleum, PatroSA and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC).<\/p>\n <\/a>The partnership has a shareholding structure as follows: Tullow Oil (47.185 per cent), GNPC (15 per cent), Anadarko Petroleum (17 per cent), Kosmos (17 per cent) and PetroSA (3.815 per cent).<\/p>\n <\/a>It has an oil processing capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil per day and a storage capacity of 1.7 million barrels.<\/p>\n The FPSO is 56 metres wide and 340 metres in length, approximately the length of three football fields.<\/p>\n Oil industry watchers say it is one of the fastest FPSO conversions ever of its size and complexity.<\/p>\n <\/a> The modules include a water treatment plant, crude separation plant, chemical injection plant, gas processing and injection plant, the turret, electricity generation plant and a 120-room accommodation unit, among other facilities.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By:\u00a0 Norvan Acquah – Hayford\/citifmonline.com\/ Jurong Shipyard\/Singapore<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first Lady Lordina Mahama has officially named Ghana’s Second Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Vessel, FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills at a ceremony held at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore. [contextly_sidebar id=”BKey6CfYM8jGPofrqIMZkpuSwN62qvdS”]Lordina Mahama, who led Ghana’s delegation to the naming ceremony, performed the symbolic act of breaking the bottle of Champagne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":156001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[43,22,4],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/a>The FPSO is using the biggest turret ever constructed in the oil industry.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>It has 17 modules, weighing more than 12,500 tons installed on it.<\/p>\n