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FPSO Market, By Water DepthShallow depth FPSOs in 2018, accounted for over 15% of the global market capex share. Proximity to onshore support and easy transfer of processed hydrocarbons are the prime factors that will propel the product demand. However, susceptibility to bad weather, higher risk of rollover and low level of damping will offer resistance to these projects.Shifting trends toward ultra-deep exploration activities and advancing seismic and drilling technologies along with availability of larger oil reserves in deeper basins will drive the ultra-deep FPSO market size. As per the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Brazil has increased oil production from ultra-deep water from 1.3 million barrels per day in 2005 to 2.2 million barrels per day in 2015.Increased capital spending by oil & gas companies toward exploration and development of deep-water projects along with depleting onshore and shallow water oil fields will drive the deep-water FPSO market growth.FPSO Market, By RegionLatin America market capex, in 2018 was valued over USD 18 billion. Discovery of vast oil reserves in pre salt geological layers along with favorable government policies and growing investments will boost the industry growth. According to Petrobras, Santos and Campos basins of Brazil contain over 16 billion barrels of pre-salt oil reserves. Moreover, the introduction of new local content regulations in Brazil, implying simpler & lower requirements with reduced fines for E&P contracts will effectively boost the deployment of FPSOs in the country.The Middle East & African market is characterized by large capacity new-build and highly customized vessels, adequate for oil fields located in deep and ultra-deep waters primarily across the offshore regions of Nigeria, Angola and Ghana. Furthermore, a multitude of relatively lower-capex floating solutions appropriate for the shallower oil fields and comparably less severe weather conditions prevalent in the region will drive the Asia Pacific FPSO market growth.

Pipelines. Short answer is Pipelines. Although the question suggests an offshore production operation, hence it having to come to shore by a means of transportation.There’re majorly two forms of Oil productions - Onshore and offshore production. In places like the Delta region of south south Nigeria there’re swamp operations going on as well.In all these, the easiest, safest and most importantly CHEAPEST form of crude transportation is through pipelines.Although before the introduction of pipelines - or before Engineers became comfortable with hydrocarbon flow through them - they had to acknowledge and understand the concept of Multiphase flow.Because Hydrocarbon is a complex mixture of majorly Carbon, Hydrogen and other gases, it tends to have different physical properties at the surface than when in the reservoir, because of changes in temperature and pressure. This causes separation of the heavier component and lighter component during flow in conduits which results in slugging, Slippage, etc.Because of this complex nature, Production engineers would pipe it from an offshore well to an offshore separation platform (mostly with vertical separators) for initial treatment before being transported with a Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.These days, however, because of the good understanding of multiphase flow in pipelines, crude oil production wells are mostly connected with the treatment plant through pipelines.Note: Multiphase flow in the reservoir shouldn’t be confused with multiphase flow in pipelines, as they’re entirely two different concepts.