KONE is delivering a personnel elevator and a cargo elevator for a super-large floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO), built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).
The FPSO will be completed by the end of 2011 and the contract is worth $1.6bn. The FPSO will measure 320m in length, 61m in width, 32m in depth, and weigh 114,000t. It will be able to produce 160,000 barrels of oil and 5 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, and will be able to store 2 million barrels of oil. It will be located in the Usan field, which is in water 750m deep, 100km southeast of Bonny Island in Nigeria.
Marine elevators for this projects have been specifically designed for the heavy-duty FPSO environment, to withstand heavy weather conditions and the platform's dynamic movements. International elevator safety issues adapted to shipboard installation, regarding overspeed governor, brakes, counterweight, as well as headroom height and pit depth, have been taken into account.
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