Bringing a degree of standardisation to increasingly complex floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO)projects would appear to be a daunting challenge.
Every field has its own characteristics, each operator its preferred technologies and development strategies. But reducing complexity was the goal SBM Offshore set out to achieve in early 2014, when the Fast4Ward programme was launched internally.
Project director Jean-Michel Felderhoff sums up the approach as “standardisation with flexibility — we want to be flexible, and we want to be as standard as possible, knowing that standardisation is quite complex.
