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The FPSO John Evans Atta Mills is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. It operates in the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Oil Field off the western coast of Ghana. She is named after a former president of Ghana the late John Evans Atta Mills. [1]

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History

The construction of the FPSO became necessary as the expansion of the Tweneboa-Ntomme-Enyenra (TEN) offshore oil fields demanded that another vessel be added to the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah. The vessel was built by Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Company Inc. (MODEC) in Singapore and named by the Lordina Mahama, in September 2015. [2] The vessel arrived on Ghanaian waters on March 2, 2016 and started processing of crude oil in August 2016. [2]

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References

  1. Ghana, News Agency. "FPSO Professor John Evans Atta Mills arrives in Ghana". ghana news agaency. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 GROUP, MULTIMEDIA (Mar 2, 2016). "New TEN Project FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills arrives in Ghana". MyJoyOnline.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-09.