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Marine Boiler | Oil to Gas

Conversion
PLANT LOCATION West Coast of Africa

FACILITY DESCRIPTION VLCC Oil Tanker converted to FPSO

BOILER TYPE Bi Drum

BOILER CAPACITY 80 [Tonnes/hour]

STEAM CONDITIONS HP: 65 [Bar] @ 510 [°C]

Conditions:

One of the most signi-cant developments in the oil and gas industry in the seventies and eighties was the
coming of age of the super oil tanker. With a statutory practical operating life limited to 25 years, many of
these tankers were ultimately retired from service and utilized as Floating Production Storage & OCoading
[FPSO] facilities on offshore well heads. To allow these tankers to be redeployed for FPSO operation, their
main boilers had to be converted from heavy fuel oil -ring to natural gas.

Converting a boiler originally designed to -re oil to gas -ring has a profound impact on the internal heat
recovery within the boiler and can adversely impact:

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The maximum output that the boiler can safely achieve,

The superheater metal temperatures; and
The effectiveness of the steam attemperation system.

It is for this reason that marine certifying authorities normally require a gas -ring study be undertaken as
part of the FPSO conversion certi-cation process. This study involves modelling the performance of the
boiler to identify any boiler modi-cations that may be required to facilitate its conversion to gas -ring, and
determine whether or not the output of the boiler will need to be limited on gas -ring.

Design Boiler is a leading international service provider of FPSO boiler conversion designs and has
completed studies on many FPSOs that are currently in service around the world. We have also been
involved in reassessing a number of FPSO conversions that have not been properly designed or
implemented. In those cases, Design Boiler was able to properly characterize the shortcomings and provide
cost effective strategies to remedy them.

Purpose developed computational resources and long-standing experience in the marine, oil, gas and
industrial boiler market has enabled us to redesign boiler components and critical systems so they may
operate safely under revised gas -ring conditions and comply with the demanding requirements of the
certifying authority.

FPSO oCoading to another tanker at sea

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On deck production facility of an FPSO FPSO Engine room showing converted

propulsion boilers

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