Total's Pazflor field project in Angola

Total's FPSO winches

French oil company Total has ordered a pair of floating production, storage and offloading (FSPO) vessels for its Pazflor field project in Angola. The vessels are being manufactured in Korea by Daewoo Shipbuilding & marine Engineering Co.

Each vessel has two 400t capacity winches. These are being produced in Le Creuset, France by NFM Technologies. Lebus has supplied NFM with parllel grooved sleeves for these winch drums.

Each winch will hold 450m length of 118mm diameter wire rope in four layers. Pitch circle diameter is 2.7m and the length between flanges is 1.7m.

Located about 150km off the coasts of Angola and 40km northeast of Dalia, in depths of 600m to 1200m, the Pazflor development covers 600 square kilometers. It involves bringing four fields into production - Perpetua, Hortensia and Zinia (Upper Miocene), and Acacia (Oligocene) - which were discovered between 2000 and 2003. Oil production is scheduled to start in 2011.

Pazflor will incorporate several technological advances in bringing difficult deep offshore fields into production, in particular seabed gas/liquid separation, right next to the production wells. This technology is a world first, Total says.

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