Off the coast of Nigeria, one of the world’s largest oil production ships, called the Bonga, was taking oil from a field on the ocean floor and transferring it to a tanker ship. Such transfers are ...
Shell plc SHEL has teamed up with Japanese Floating Production Storage and Offloading (“FPSO”) specialist Modec, Brazil’s State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and digital solutions company Shape ...
What can go wrong was illustrated off Nigeria in 2011, when a pipe connecting Shell’s production ship Bonga to a tanker sprang a leak. The spill wasn’t noticed for more than four hours, and 40,000 ...