A huge floating storage and offloading vessel with 2 million barrels of oil storage capacity and a tower mooring system is one of three packages the US oil giant will require for Cepu.
The other two packages are for the onshore field development work, and the subsea pipeline system that will transport Cepu oil to the FSO.
Sources said ExxonMobil is expected to begin pre-qualification exercises in the fourth quarter of 2006 for the three packages.
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