The E-Semi is one of two dry tree semisub solutions owned by FloaTec, which is a joint venture between Keppel Fels and McDermott.

Joseph Mathew, a project manager at Keppel Offshore & Marine, said at the OSEA conference in Singapore that the latest E-Semi design had been model tested recently in a laboratory in Brazil in collaboration with Petrobras, and subsequently approved by Det Norkse Veritas and ABS.

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