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Oil & Gas / North Sea

Gallery: Culzean’s FSO coming to life

These incredible photos show Maersk Oil’s Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) unit coming to life in a Singapore yard. The stunning piece of engineering will later make its way to the North Sea for Maersk Oil’s £3.3billion development. Click here to watch the project’s topsides take shape.
By Mark Lammey in Singapore
16/03/2017, 6:30 am Updated: 16/03/2017, 7:22 am
Inside a Culzean FSO tank.
Inside a Culzean FSO tank.

These incredible photos show Maersk Oil’s Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) unit coming to life in a Singapore yard.

The stunning piece of engineering will later make its way to the North Sea for Maersk Oil’s £3.3billion development. Click here to watch the project’s topsides take shape.

Stuart McAuley, engineering manager for Maersk's Culzean project, right, speaking to visitors to Sembcorp Marine's Tuas yard, where the Culzean floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit is being built. All photographs courtesy of Alfred NG Photography and Maersk Oil.
Mr McAuley, right, with Energy Voice's Mark Lammey at Sembcorp's Tuas yard.
The 600 tonne crane over the dry dock.
Support blocks on the dry dock floor.
A view of the inside of the Culzean FSO from the dry dock wall.
Under the green covers are sections of the FSO which have yet to be attached.
One of the storage tanks on the FSO.
Aboard the Culzean FSO.
Inside a Culzean FSO tank.
Scaffolding erected inside the FSO.
Anodes installed on the wall of the FSO to prevent corrosion.
The Culzean FSO.
The FSO as seen from the dry dock floor.