Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine has landed a key topsides contract for a floating production, storage and offloading vessel, with Guyana appearing the likely destination for the unit.

Keppel Shipyard on Thursday confirmed it had won an approximate S$100 million (US$74.7 million) contract for fabrication and integration work for a floater, which it did not identify.

However, the unit appears likely to be SBM Offshore's Prosperity, which is set to work for ExxonMobil on the prolific Stabroek block off Guyana.

The hull of the Prosperity was constructed by Chinese yard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) under SBM’s Fast4Ward concept. Upstream has previously reported that the topsides would be provided by Keppel and Dyna-Mac.

Keppel on Thursday said that the workscope for the unidentified floater includes the fabrication, installation and integration of topsides modules, riser balconies and spread-mooring support structures, as well as supporting the customer on pre-commissioning and commissioning work.

When completed, the FPSO will be capable of producing 220,000 barrels per day of oil and have associated gas treatment capacity of 400 million cubic feet per day.

These figures match up with SBM's Prosperity.

Ahead of the vessel’s arrival at the Singapore yard, Keppel in the first quarter of 2021 will start pre-fabrication work on the topsides components.

“With the challenges posed by Covid-19, the health and safety of our workforce is paramount. We have put in place measures to safeguard our people and maintain our operations to ensure that each project entrusted to us is delivered as planned,” said Keppel O&M’s managing director (conversions and repairs), Chor How Jat.

The FPSO is scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2022.

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Keppel lands FPSO topsides prize... but where is the unit heading?