VALUE PROPOSITION FOR SMALL AND MARGINAL FIELD DEVELOPMENTS

The world’s high energy demand has driven oil prices to unprecedented heights and put pressure on Oil and Gas companies to produce more. These increases in demand coupled with sustainable high prices have now shifted focus to small and marginal fields resulting in threshold levels being lowered. Typically, such projects are in locations remote from existing infrastructure
The International patent pending Mobile Offshore Production and Storage Unit (MOPSU™) is a breakthrough set of new technology, a "game changer" in the Oil & Gas Sector. The current MOPSU™ is designed as a self installing re-locatable platform for use in water depths ranging from 25 metres to 80 metres. It brings together, in an all-new integrated design, production storage of up to 90,000 barrels provided in the foundation mat, capable of supporting drilling, production and off-loading of crude oil to shuttle tankers - a totally new cost effective method for developing small and marginal fields in shallow waters.
The MOPSU™ provides the following significant benefits:-
  • Immediate savings on wellhead platform and pipeline/FSO
  • Self-installing – No requirement for a Heavy Lift Vessel for the installation of substructure or topsides
  • Facilitates early production – develop while exploring
  • Fully assembled at fabrication yard / quayside and wet-towed to offshore site
  • Re-locatable, making incremental field development or re-use attractive
  • Removable, with minimal environmental impact
  • Integral production storage of up to 90,000 barrels provided in the foundation mat
  • Optional – modular drilling units
  • Supports 3 other types of development drilling rigs (modular self-erecting rig, tender assisted rig and jack-up rig)
  • Detachable drilling template for attachment to conventional platforms if further development is envisaged
  • Fixed installation which floats only during mobilization and demobilization, therefore no requirement for marine classification
  • Packaged equipment philosophy to develop topsides facilities, allowing flexibility to change processes
  • Removable strand jack system is used to lower the mat and to elevate the deck, eliminating the need for permanent jack-houses, which require periodical maintenance
  • Platform-deployed mooring hawser and crude transfer system for offloading to shuttle tankers; no subsea offloading connections
Unlike others systems that rely on drilling rigs, wellhead platforms, pipelines or a Floating Storage and Offloading vessel, the MOPSU™ uses modular drilling units, integrated storage and a detachable drilling template with the entire system (with the exception of the detachable drilling template) fully recoverable and reusable.
This technology, “a game changer”, will provide Oil and Gas companies’ versatile and scalable solutions for small and marginal field developments and set new paradigms in design of cost effective systems and structures.