The World Floating Production Market Report 2009-2013
Douglas-Westwood Reports
DW8 $4150.00 Available in hard copy or pdf format.
Floating production has proved a cost-effective method of developing both marginal and world-class offshore fields worldwide. In the past five years, 81 floating production units of varying types have been installed. In the next five years, we forecast the installation of over 120 floaters. The Report provides an overview of current and future prospects over the 2009-2013 period.
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Future Prospects
The World Floating Production Report by energy business consultants Douglas-Westwood provides the industry executive with an overview of future prospects within the floating production sector.
The World Floating Production Report covers all types of floaters; FPSOs, FPSSs, spars, TLPs, etc. and is unique in providing an essential overview of the FPS business, the technology and a forecast of global markets.
It analyses historic and future FPS installations over the period 2003-2012 by region, operator, water depth, and vessel type.
Technology Overview
The report looks at the technologies involved in each sector of the floating production industry.
The economic rationale for use of floaters and their evolution is explained. The current floating production market is analysed together with factors affecting supply and demand including re-deployment issues and regional disparities.
Existing designs of floater and new innovative concepts are described, together with the factors driving innovation in this dynamic market sector.
Market Forecasts
The World Floating Production Report uses a specially developed market model to generate forecasts of numbers of floating production systems in each region of the world.
Data is shown by region and covers the period to 2013.
A major factor in determining future FPSO expenditure is whether fields will be developed by upgrading and re-deploying existing units, by tanker conversions or by newbuilds. The report provides estimates of levels of future activity and expenditure in each of these categories.
The World Floating Production Report provides essential information for decision-makers in oil companies and in the contracting and supply industries, government departments and financial institutions.
Document Contents
- Summary & Conclusions – an executive overview of the study. Forecasts of future FPS installations by region and vessel type 2009-2013
- Floating Production Systems – the importance of FPSs for offshore developments
- FPS Applications, Drivers & Alternatives – EWT, EPS, life-of-field & hub-and-spoke developments and alternative development technologies
- FPS topsides – design factors; topsides equipment and functions
- Moorings & risers – mooring systems and riser technologies
- The supply of FPS units – newbuild, upgrade & redeployment and conversion
- Floating Storage & Offloading Vessels – rationale, applications and supply options
- Innovative FPS concepts – drivers for innovation; designs based on FPSOs, FPSSs, TLPs, spars, FPDSOs & other concepts including floating LNG and GTL systems.
- FPS regions – overview of the global FPS fleet 2003-2007 by region, vessel type, water depth and operator. Profiles of regional activity and their future prospects
- FPS case studies – descriptions of FPS-led projects
- The FPS Market – historic & forecast demand in the FPS market (2003-2012). Vessel numbers & Capex by type and region; leading operators and the deepwater segment.
- Appendices – data set of identified future FPS-based field development prospects 2008-2012; Profiles of 25 leading companies in the FPS sector and profiles on leading leasing contractors.
