SBM Offshore has begun fabrication in China of the first floating production, storage and offloading vessel hull to use the Dutch floater specialist’s Fast4Ward design, writes Xu Yihe.
Steel cutting on the maiden project in SBM’s FPSO standardisation programme got under way at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) in Shanghai this month.
SBM chief executive Bruno Chabas told Upstream that cutting of first steel is a key step for the company.
