The most expensive Maersk FPSOs ship Maersk Peregrino was sold to a joint venture company, established by the Norwegian oil company Statoil and their Chinese partner Sinochem. The price of the sale of the largest floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit was announced to be over 1 billion USD, which is also the largest investment, which both companies are making in their joint venture. The global FPSO contractor BW Offshore will charter and take the control of Maersk Peregrino after a transition period of about six months. The CEO of Maersk FPSOs – Stig Hoffmeyer, announced the the company is constantly updating, optimising and investing in modern technologies, which causes the upgrade of their fleet and portfolio. The manager added that this may include divestments, if timing and conditions are right.
The ship Maersk Peregrino has length of 333.00 m, beam of 55.00 m and maximum summer draft of 11.30 m. The FPSO has deadweight of 307,284 DWT and gross tonnage of 165,829 GRT. The project for building Maersk Peregrino started in 2007, and cost over 15 million labour hours and over 1 billion USD. The FPSO unit has a storage capacity of over 1.6 million barrels of crude oil, and during the first year of operation produced well over 15 million barrels.