The FPSO ''John Evans Atta Mills'' is a

floating production storage and offloading A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing of hydrocarbons, and for the storage of oil. An FPSO vessel is designed to receive h ...

(FPSO) vessel. It operates in the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Oil Field off the western coast of

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. She is named after a former president of Ghana the late

John Evans Atta Mills John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party ...

History

The construction of the FPSO became necessary as the expansion of the Tweneboa-Ntomme-Enyenra (TEN) offshore oil fields demanded that another vessel be added to the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah. The vessel was built by Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Company Inc. (MODEC) in

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and named by the

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, in September 2015. The vessel arrived on Ghanaian waters on March 2, 2016 and started processing of crude oil in August 2016.

Other Ghana FPSOs

FPSO Kwame Nkrumah The FPSO ''Kwame Nkrumah'' is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. It operates in the Jubilee oil fields off the coast of Ghana. She is named after the first president of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah. History VLCC tanker ''Tohdoh'' ...

FPSO John Agyekum Kufour The FPSO ''John Agyekum Kufuor'' is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. It operates in the Sankofa offshore cape three point (OCTP - ENI) off the coast of Ghana. She is named after a former president of Ghana, John Agyekum K ...

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