SBM Offshore has sounded out interest among Chinese yards for the engineering, procurement and construction job for a floating production, storage and offloading vessel destined for the next development phase at the ExxonMobil-operated Stabroek block offshore Guyana.

The FPSO would be the largest yet to be deployed by the US supermajor on a prolific tract that has to date yielded estimated recoverable resources of around 9 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

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