The huge $2.7 billion floating production project that Shell is pushing through is not just Nigeria's first development in really deep water, it also centres on a vessel of a size so far seen only off Angola.
The 225,000 barrels per day oil processing capacity of Bonga's floating production, storage and offloading vessel in fact just edges ahead of Girassol's -- the current record-holder when it comes to floating production superlatives.
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