Japanese floater specialist Modec is in advanced talks with China's Dalian Shipbuilding Heavy Industry (DSIC) about building the hull, and possibly the topsides, for the Marlim-1 floating production, storage and offloading vessel destined for the Petrobras-operated field off Brazil.
Asia-based industry officials said talks are ongoing for Modec to sub-contract DSIC to convert the hull of the FPSO from a very large crude carrier.
