FSO Abu was located 200 km from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia at block PM-8, Abu Cluster field. The field is operated by PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd and the facilities consisted of a Satellite Platform, Abu A, and the FSO.

Conversion of the “Motorised Tanker Armata” was completed and towed offshore on 27 February 2007. The FSO was installed at location on 3 March 2007 about 2 km northwest of Abu-A platform. First oil was achieved in May 2007.

The FSO was turret moored at a water depth of 60 m. She had 11 cargo oil tanks with a maximum capacity of 95,789 m³ (two designated as production tanks) and two slops tanks of 5,600 m³. The FSO was equipped with a facility to tandem moor offtake tankers at her stern. Her designed loading rate was 30,000 barrels per day and its offloading rate was 20,000 barrels per hour. The FSO was designed to accommodate tankers of between 60,000 and 150,000 summer deadweight tonnes (SDWT).

FSO ABU was demobilised in September 2016 after nine years at site. We are proud to have been the chosen Operations and Maintenance (O&M) operator for the FSO ABU which includes pre-operations work at the conversion yard and O&M for the entire duration of service from 2007 to 2016 followed by the demobilisation work for the FSO in 2016.

During the O&M phase, the FSO was operated at an average uptime in excess of 99% with zero lost time injuries recorded during its entire service period of approximately 4.9 million manhours.