Just a few days before SBM Offshore confirmed it would supply the floater for the Petrobras Mero-2 development, Chinese yard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) launched the hull of the first floating production, storage and offloading vessel to be built under the Dutch floater specialist's Fast4Ward design, writes Xu Yihe.
The launch last Thursday took place 27 days ahead of schedule and paves the way for delivery of the Liza Unity FPSO, which will operate for US supermajor ExxonMobil off Guyana by the end of this year.
