Emerson Process Management has announced that it has been awarded a contract from Bergesen Worldwide offshore for supplying a safety and automation system, process instrumentation, and fiscal metering system for the FPSO BW Enterprise. The project is part of the Bergesen Worldwide Offshore effort to convert the tanker Berge Enterprise, which measures 340m long by 65m wide, to a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO will process oil from satellite fields in addition to importing oil from other platforms, then mix and store it for delivery to tankers or via pipelines to refineries. The FPSO production capacity will be 200,000bbl/d, gas compression capacity 120MMscf/d, import of oil 550,000bbl/d, offloading capacity 1,200,000bbl/d, oil export (pipeline) 200,000bbl/d, with storage capacity of 2,400,000bbl, and gas export of 120MMscf/d. Emerson will supply its PlantWeb digital automation architecture including digital Foundation fieldbus communications, digital automation systems, and intelligent field devices. A network of intelligent transmitters, analysers, valves, and equipment monitors, delivers continuous process and equipment “health” information.
