Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
Floating Offshore Production, Storage and Offloading Facility.

They're preferred because they don't need an export pipeline system, just risers to take oil / condensate direct from the wellhead. Product can then be transferred to tankers for shipment to the Scottish mainland. It is ours after all.
Or alternatively sold on the open market to highest bidder and delivered to a refinery anywhere in the world.
Thank for stating what FPSO stands for.