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ELECTRIC MOTORS...
Challenging offshore repair
demands specialist skills
Sulzer performs 10.7MW electric motor rewind for FPSO vessel
he business of offshore oil and gas Floating production storage and offloading
extraction is beset with challenges, not (FPSO) vessels are purpose-built for the offshore oil
least maintaining productivity and and gas industry to process hydrocarbons and act
Treliability in a harsh working environment as temporary storage facilities. As such, they are
whilst ensuring staff safety. So, delivering routine complex structures with a great deal of equipment
maintenance services requires a concerted team installed in close quarters.
effort, such as that demonstrated by Sulzer when It is, therefore, quite an effort to remove a
replacing a large motor from an oil production component as large as a 10.7 MW motor so that it
vessel in the North Sea. can be taken onshore for planned maintenance.
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