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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Don't get in the way of a billfish

Just got this email from my friend Eric Hermann @ Executive yacht and ship
"Offshore hazards and marine life desperate for a nose job... ouch. For those not in on the lingo - FPSO = floating production storage and offloading - basically a tanker built or converted to do those 4 things. It will offload to another tanker for the 2nd tanker to transport to a refinery.These are pictures of the floating load hose on the FPSO Girassol in Angola, Africa that was pierced by a blue marlin. Load operations were shut down for a few days while they replaced the hose."

"For reference, this terminal produces about 250k barrels of oil a day and this loading hose is approx 24in in diameter"

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