You are here: Home » Fleet & Operations » Our FPSO Fleet » Glas Dowr What is an FPSO? FPSO Operations Our FPSO Fleet Glas Dowr » Bleo Holm Haewene Brim Munin Aoka Mizu Operations Support Contact Glas Dowr FPSO Producing Christening of the Glas Dowr in Teesside (England), summer 1997. FPSO Glas Dowr leaving Cape Town for Sable Field; Table Mountain in the background. FPSO Glas Dowr en route to her next assignment: Kitan Field in Australia/East Timor. In 2011, Bluewater completed the conversion of FPSO Glas Dowr at the Sembawang shipyard in Singapore to prepare the FPSO for operations in the Kitan Field. First oil was achieved on 14 October 2011. The Kitan field is located some 500 km off the Australian northwest coast, in an area of the Timor Sea. Glas Dowr The ’Glas Dowr’ is the fifth Bluewater designed, built, owned and operated Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) installation. It is producing at the Kitan Field off northwest Australia for client oil company ENI JPD. Data Sheet Glas Dowr Folder Glas Glas Dowr Instead of converting a second-hand oil tanker to a FPSO, like Bluewater did with the four previous FPSO conversions, the Glas Dowr FPSO was converted from a newly built oil tanker. While under construction in Japan for a tanker owner in 1995, Bluewater intercepted, but completely finished, the Glas Dowr as a trading oil tanker. Newly built oil tanker Glas Dowr sailing under own propulsion power to conversion yard The Glas Dowr sailed under its own propulsion power to the Harland & Wolf shipyard in Belfast (Northern Ireland) for hull steel conversion, while the ABB-designed oil & gas processing modules were under construction at Heerema Hartlepool (England). Glas Dowr hull steel conversion on-going at Harland & Wolf Topsides processing modules installation and integration took place in Teesside (England). Crane barge lifting topsides modules onto the Glas Dowr’s deck supports FPSO Glas Dowr first commenced operations in August 1997 on the Durward & Dauntless Fields on the UK part of the continental shelf of the North Sea for client oil company Amerada Hess. After 2000, FPSO Glas Dowr moved from the UK to South Africa for a field-specific conversion. She operated from 2003 until 2008 on the Sable Field in the very harsh environment of the South Atlantic, south of South Africa, for oil company Soekor E & P. About Bluewater Code of Conduct Vision & Mission Privacy Statement Company Profile Locations Contact HSEQ HSEQ Policy Certification Safety at Bluewater Contact Products & Technology Floating Production & Storage Facilities Mooring systems Multi Product Swivels LNG Loading & Offloading Systems Floating Wind Systems Floating Tidal Systems Experience Overview Products & Technology Downloads After Sales Contact Fleet & Operations What is an FPSO? FPSO Operations Our FPSO Fleet Operations Support Contact Careers Working At Bluewater Vacancies Recruitment Procedure Student & Graduates Career Events Contact News & Events News Brochures Events © 2021 Bluewater T +31 (0)23 711 5500 | Disclaimer ABOUT BLUEWATER HSEQ PRODUCTS & TECHNOLOGY FLEET & OPERATIONS CAREERS NEWS, MEDIA & EVENTS CONTACT US