# For once I get to say good for Shell!
**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768
**Category:** Press Releases
**Created:** [July 23, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768 "2013-07-23T06:45:42Z")
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### Author:  [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/1 "2013-07-23T06:45:42Z")
more FPSO’s in the GoM means more US Jones Act shuttle tankers and I like those
> [Shell Orders $1 Billion Ultra-Deepwater FPSO for Gulf of Mexico](http://gcaptain.com/shell-orders-fpso-gulf-mexico/)
> By Rob Almeida On July 22, 2013
> SBM Offshore has won a major order today from Shell to supply and lease a new Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for the Stones development project located in the Gulf of Mexico. Once installed, the Stones FPSO will be the world’s deepest floating production facility and will have an asset value of around USD $1 billion.
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> The BW Pioneer FPSO, Image: Petrobas USA
> As a converted Suezmax tanker, this new FPSO would join the Petrobras-contracted BW Pioneer in the Walker Ridge area approximately 320km (200 miles) offshore in 2,896m (9500ft) of water.
> The initial period of the charter contract is for 10 years with future extension options up to a total of 20 years.
> The FPSO will have a storage capacity of 800,000 bbls of oil and be outfitted with a turret with a disconnectable buoy (Buoyant Turret Mooring or BTM) allowing it to weathervane in normal conditions and disconnect from the FPSO upon the approach of a hurricane. SBM Offshore notes that the FPSO is a generation 2 design with a processing facility capacity of 60,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and 15 mmscfd of gas treatment and export. No water injection facilities are specified.
> Disconnectable Turret Advantages
> According to a paper by Jingyun Cheng, and Peimin Cao from SBM Offshore, disconnectable FPSOs have significant advantages over permanently moored FPSOs in that, “the mooring system does not have to be designed to accommodate the economically penalizing severe loadings associated with hurricane and typhoon conditions. It allows rapid vessel removal for maintenance or upgrade. It also enables phased development due to production uncertainty, which reduces reservoir risk.”
> The BTM will be configured with Steel Lazy-Wave Risers (SLWR) which will be a first application for a disconnectable FPSO. Riser specialists, 2H Offshore describe these Lazy-Wave Risers:
> “A lazy-wave catenary riser (LWR) is a special SCR [steel catenary riser] with a segment of its length equipped with external buoyancy modules, where its upward buoyancy force in water is greater than its downward gravity force and thus an equivalent negative “gravity” force. A typical LWR consists of three segments, each segment a catenary, namely the hang-off catenary (hanging and jumper sections), the buoyancy catenary (lift and drag sections) and the touchdown catenary,” as illustrated below.
> lazy wave catenary riser
> The mooring system will also incorporate the ability to adjust line tension during operations by use of an In-Line Mooring Connector (ILMC).
> In March 2012, Shell and SBM Offshore signed an Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) for the supply of medium and small FPSOs on a lease and operate basis. The Stones FPSO is the first Shell project to award contracts utilizing the EFA.
> SBM Offshore and Shell have been engaged in front-end development work for the Stones FPSO solution for the past two years.
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### Author:  [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 10:04am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/2 "2013-07-23T10:04:15Z")
You like shuttle tankers??!
Either gonna be OSG or APT…I’m sure OSG is going to try and sweep the market.
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### Author:  [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/3 "2013-07-23T14:33:19Z")
[QUOTE=New3M;115388]You like shuttle tankers??![/QUOTE]
I like ANY vessel with the Stars and Stripes flying from it’s stern (or mast as the case may be)…
VIVA EL JONES ACT!
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### Author:  [@The\_Commodore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/The_Commodore)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/4 "2013-07-24T04:14:16Z")
More like the star and stripes of Liberia. Sorry, but no way the FPSO will be US flag, what requirement that the traffic associated must be US flag as well. I’ve been to the LOOP a few times on US tonnage, but we were far from the only country represented there…
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### Author:  [@Skoidat69](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Skoidat69)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/5 "2013-07-24T04:47:30Z")
> [@"New3M"](#):
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> You like shuttle tankers??!
>
> Either gonna be OSG or APT…I’m sure OSG is going to try and sweep the market.
I love APT aka American Eagle Tanker where the only thing American is in the name… Indian officers on a fleet of coastwise lightering tankers. They run into CC,Tx
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### Author:  [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/6 "2013-07-24T05:03:48Z")
> [@"The Commodore"](#):
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> More like the star and stripes of Liberia. Sorry, but no way the FPSO will be US flag, what requirement that the traffic associated must be US flag as well. I’ve been to the LOOP a few times on US tonnage, but we were far from the only country represented there…
The FPSO won’t be us flagged, but the only FPSO out there right now isn’t us flagged either. However, the FPSO becomes a US port, making the transport ships (shuttle tankers) US flagged. This has nothing to do with the LOOP.
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### Author:  [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/7 "2013-07-24T05:04:39Z")
> [@"Skoidat69"](#):
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> I love APT aka American Eagle Tanker where the only thing American is in the name… Indian officers on a fleet of coastwise lightering tankers. They run into CC,Tx
That’s not APT. APT is the old US Shipping ships aka Crowley or whatever name they’re under now. The State series run under AMO. No Indian officers.
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### Author:  [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/8 "2013-07-24T05:06:05Z")
> [@"c.captain"](#):
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> I like ANY vessel with the Stars and Stripes flying from it’s stern (or mast as the case may be)…
>
> VIVA EL JONES ACT!
Yea except the problem is is that this isn’t going to create a new ship for the fleet. OSG is going to convert one of the older ships, and Crowley just signed for a couple more of the State series which there is talk of converting one of as well.
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### Author:  [@z-drive](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/z-drive)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/for-once-i-get-to-say-good-for-shell/10768/9 "2013-07-24T09:12:33Z")
AET is American eagle. APT is something else. Yes the Aet ships are obnoxiously 'merican with their American city names.