EXXONMOBIL has shortlisted Japanese floater specialist Modec International and Netherlands-based rival SBM Offshore to compete in an upcoming tender covering front-end engineering and design studies for a maiden floating production, storage and offloading vessel to be deployed at its deep-water Liza project off Guyana.
The US supermajor has kept a tight lid on the project and is proceeding cautiously as it waits on appraisal results.
However,
