FPSO Market Size, Share and Global Trend By Storage Capacity (Less than 1 MMBBL, 1 MMBBL - 2 MMBBL, More than 2 MMBBL), By Construction Type (Converted, New-Build, Redeployed), By Ownership (Contractor Owned, Operator Owned), By Water Depth (Shallow Water, Deepwater, Ultra-Deepwater) and By Geography Forecast till 2026

The depletion of the onshore oil and gas reserves has triggered the investments made in the FPSO market. FPSO also holds a cutting edge with some significant advantages of working in deep water locations and remote places where laying pipelines is not cost-effective or even practical. FPSO concept allows oil companies to produce oil in more remote areas and in deeper water that would not have been possible with other technology like fixed pile structure. FPSO comes with processing equipment for hydrocarbons and storage for treated crude oil. It is equipped with the offloading system to transfer the treated oil to shuttle tankers for shipping it to refineries which eliminate the need of a pipeline to be installed for transfer of treated oil. Another economic advantage is that existing tankers can be converted into FPSO. FPSOs can also be used to operate in bad weather conditions over a span of 20 years. FPSOs also prove to be economical in short term oil fields. 

On the basis of their storage capacity, FPSOs can be segmented as Less than 1 MMBBL, Between 1 MMBBL to 2 MMBBl, and more than 2 MMBBL. Depending upon the production capacity of oil field the FPSO capacity is decided. Further, FPSO can be segmented on the basis of their construction type such as converted, redeployed and new build. On the basis of ownership, FPSOs can be segmented into contractor owned and operator owned. In the year 2018 out of the total operating FPSOs, most of the FPSOs were operator owned. On the basis of water depth, it can be segmented into shallow depth, deepwater and ultra-deepwater. Currently, the deepest operational FPSO, Turritella, is operating at a depth of 2900m in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The major market driver for the FPSO market is the depletion of onshore oil and gas reserves which has forced these onshore activities to go down. The flexibility provided by the FPSO with operation in remote areas and deeper water has given it an upper hand over others. Replacement of pipelines with storage vessels and periodic offloading has helped to solve the problem of transporting oil to shores.

The key market restraint for the FPSO market is the high initial cost involved in new-build or conversion vessel. The time required for building or conversion of FPSO can also act as a market restraint for the global market.

KEY PLAYERS COVERED

Some of the notable companies in the FPSO market are BP, Petronas, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Bumi Armada Berhad, SBM Offshore, BW offshore, MODEC, Blue Water Energy Services, B.V, Aker Solutions ASA, Yinson Holdings Berhad, and Teekay Corporation.

SEGMENTATION

REGIONAL ANALYSIS

The FPSO market has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. After the sharp fall in the price of crude oil at the end of 2014 which had a brutal impact on offshore and gas industry in the following years. In 2016 not a single new order for FPSO was booked and only one redeployment was announced. In 2017, the market has shown improvement and by the end of 2025, Brazil has planned a maximum number of FPSOs deployment followed by the Falkland Islands and Guyana. Africa has the maximum number of FPSOs deployments planned for till 2025, in which Angola has the highest number of FPSOs to start operation followed by Nigeria. In Europe, Norway has the maximum planned deployments followed by the United Kingdom. In Asia Pacific, India plans to have maximum deployments followed by Indonesia and China.

KEY INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

• In February 2019, Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company, started using P-76 FPSO after it has started the use of P-67 earlier this year. Petrobras plans to have 2 more FPSOs by the end of this year.
• In February 2019, Rystad a Norwegian oil and gas intelligence firm has stated that it expects 33 FPSOs to be sanctioned from 2019 till 2021 following a pick-up in oil and gas activity in the offshore sector.
• In April 2019, Total has started production on Kaombo Sul as a part of Kaombo Project which had its sister ship Kaombo Norte already in operation for 8 months now.