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Enhancing Safety on FPSOs: Operations and Maintenance

Enhancing Safety on FPSOs, Practical Considerations for Operations and Maintenance explores best practices for addressing the challenges posed by an ageing global Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) fleet. This document is the product of an ABS-led working group consisted of Chevron, Shell Trading (U.S.) Company, Petrobras, MODEC and SBM as well as The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Registry, and the U.S Coast Guard 8th District.

The best practices focus on areas such as tank design and arrangement, cleaning and inspection; risk based inspection of hull structures, composite repair tracking and carrying out repairs while operating.

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Enhancing Safety on FPSOs: Leveraging Digital Technologies explores the potential of the latest digital technologies to advance safety performance of the global floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) fleet.