Semisubmersible

As exploration and production activities expanded world wide to deeper and deeper waters, the semisubmersible floating production unit (FPU) has been a mainstay floating production solution for wet tree developments where pipeline infrastructure was available.  Our parent company has provided semisubmersible solutions for both drilling and production dating back to some of the industry’s earliest units. The standard industry semisubmersible FPU provides reasonable motions and is scalable to handle very large payloads.  But these FPUs couldn’t meet the challenge of supporting SCR’s in ultra-deep water. That’s where SBM Atlantia stepped in.