Description:

• The Jamestown is a Steel Tanker Floating Production System built in 1957 at Newport News, Va. The Jamestown was converted to an FPSO in 1995 at J. Ray McDermott's Fabrication Facility at Harbor Island, Port Aransas, Tx.
• The Fabrication / Ship Yard performed the following conversions to the vessel:
  
  • Converted the ship to a 20,000 bpd production facility replacing thousands of tons of steel
  • Added a 24 MMscd enclosed flare
  • Added a 62' X 62' Helideck to the ship
  • Added a complete mooring system, complete with Chain Stoppers and Chain Haul-In Winches & Tackle
  • Added import/export Umbilical connections
  • Upgraded the Boiler to a tri-fuel control System (HFO/MDO/WASTE GAS)
  • Installed shipwide RTU-Based Communications System
• The Jamestown FPSO is now a converted tanker, capable of storing 180,000 barrels of oil. It includes Production Facilities to include three(3) - phase separation for 20,000 barrels of oil per day (bobd), 5,000 barrels of water per day (bwpd) and 35 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) of produced gas
• All of the above was accomplished in less than ten months.