FPSO Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian oil storage vessel
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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.[2]
- FPSO Kwame Nkrumah MV21 (2010–)[1]
- Ohdoh (2008–2010)
- Tohdoh (1991–2008)
Panama| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
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| Owner | Tullow Oil |
| Port of registry | Panama |
| Builder | Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 10 January 1991 |
| Acquired | 24 October 1991 |
| Identification |
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| Status | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Floating Production Storage and Offloading |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 358.6 m (1,176 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 59 m (193 ft 7 in) |
| Height | 64.8 m (212 ft 7 in) |
| Draught | 19.6 m (64 ft 4 in) operating. |
| Installed power | 1,250 kW |
| Speed | 13.2 knots (24.4 km/h; 15.2 mph) |
| Capacity |
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History
VLCC tanker Tohdoh was built by Mitsui Eng. & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. in 1991. She was owned and operated by NYK Line.[3] In 2008, she was sold to MODEC for US$42.5 million.[4] MODEC renamed the ship Ohdoh and started her conversion into FPSO vessel.[2] Conversion was done by SembCorp Marine at the Jurong Shipyard in Singapore.[1] On 1 May 2010, the vessel was renamed Kwame Nkrumah MV21, and on 15 May 2010 she started her trip for her base in the Western Coast of Ghana. She arrived in Ghana on 21 June 2010.[5] The vessel is estimated to cost US$875 million.
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