The Azurite FDPSO is the world's first floating, drilling, production, storage and offloading (FDPSO) vessel. The Azurite FDPSO was built at the shipyard of

Hyundai Heavy Industries Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI; ) is the world's largest shipbuilding company and a major heavy equipment manufacturer. Its headquarters are in Ulsan, South Korea. History HHI was founded in 1972 by Chung Ju-yung as a division of the ...

in 1988 as a very large crude carrier (VLCC). In 1988–1990 her name was Fina Europe, in 1990–1993 Sanco Europe, and in 1993–1997 MT Europe. She was converted at the

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from the VLCC to FDPSO between July 2007 and February 2009. The Azurite FDPSO has storage capacity of crude oil. Its processing capacity is of fluid and of oil. Prosafe Production is responsible for the vessel operations and

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is responsible for drilling. On 10 August 2009, Azurite FDPSO started production at the Azurite offshore oilfield in waters of the

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Murphy Oil to Release Azurite FDPSO Early (Congo)
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