Post-Congress Focus Day - Friday, 16 April 2027

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Building Africa's Late-Life FPSO Strategy: Redeployment & Life Extension

8:15 am - 8:45 am Morning Refreshments & Registration

8:45 am - 8:55 am Welcome Address by FPSO Network

8:55 am - 9:05 am Opening Remarks by Congress Chairperson

Workshop A: The Potential of Renewable Energy in FPSO Operations

9:05 am - 10:10 am Section 01 | Screening for Redeployment: Is This Field's Next Home Somewhere Else?

- The technical and commercial criteria that decide if a vessel can be safely redeployed

- Hull integrity, remaining fatigue life, and mooring compatibility for a new location

- The redeployment decision: is a second field the right move for this asset and what is it worth to the right buyer?

10:15 am - 10:45 am Morning Break & Refreshment

10:45 am - 11:45 am Section 02 | Redeployment Execution | Recertification, Liability & Ownership Transfer

- Disconnecting and towing a vessel safely to its next home

- Rewriting the charter party contract for a new field and new reservoir conditions

- Class society recertification and regulatory approval for the new location

Case Study: FPSO Gryphon: decommissioned in the North Sea, confirmed (December 2025) for redeployment to Tunisia for a new producing life

Simulation: The Redeployment Go/No-Go Room: delegates work through the real decision framework, using Gryphon as the live example

MODULE 2: Life Extension | Staying in Place

11:45 am - 12:15 pm Section 01: The Refurbishment Business Case: Extend or Replace?

- Model overhaul cost, production deferral, schedule, and residual useful life.

- Check whether license and reservoir life justify the technical scope.

- Include process-safety barrier restoration and integrity expenditure in the investment case

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Section 02: Engineering the Extension | Hull, Mooring & Recertification

- Assess fatigue, corrosion, mooring, topsides and safety-critical system degradation.

- Use the main-conference major-hazard case to decide which barriers require proof before life extension.

Simulation: build a cost/risk case for refurbishment and compare it with replacement or redeployment

Case Study: FPSO Baobab Ivoirien (Côte d'Ivoire): disconnected January 2025, refurbished at Drydocks World in Dubai, returned to production, extending the field's life to 2038 or beyond

Simulation: Build the Life-Extension Business Case: delegates construct a cost/benefit case for extending an asset, using Baobab as the working model

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Break & Refreshment

8:00 am - 8:30 am Closing Reflections | Redeploy or Extend? The Late-Life Asset Decision Framework

- Teams defend a proceed, repair, redeploy or retire decision using the workshop evidence.

- Compare commercial return, national value, residual asset risk and safety-barrier confidence.

- Take home a decision checklist to apply to your own asset portfolio.