Talk:Floating Production Storage and Offloading
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[edit] Vessel, Unit, or System?
I did a Yahoo! search for each (search+number of hits):
- "Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel" 2,020
- "Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Vessels" 472
- "Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Systems" 268
- "Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Systems" 624
- "Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Unit" 313
- "Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Units" 677
Vessel was the winner.
WikiDon 10:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
That is because FPSO is used in the market as a term to describe vessel-shaped production systems.
Most FPSOs are converted oil tankers. There are a few other structures that do the same as the FPSOs, including the Sevan Stabilised Platform (SSP), which has been developed and designed by Norway's Sevan Marine (http://www.sevanmarine.com/). The first unit, "SSP Piranema" is currently (June 2006) being outfitted in Rotterdam and will serve on a Brazilian oil field. It does what an FPSO does (including storing oil and offloading it directly into tankers), but is not called an FPSO.
The suggetion to merge the page on FPSOs with the floating production systems page seems like a bad one, as there are many floating rigs that produce oil and thus are floating production systems, but since they do not store the oil or offload it into tankers, they are not FPSOs. Thus, two different things which need different pages.
Best regards Mats Oslo
- I agree with Mats. The articles should not be merged, because they are not the same thing.--Heidu 14:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
