Our Heritage

The first F4W FPSO Sepetiba arrives in Brazil

First FPSO with ABS REMOTE-CON Notation

Launch of SBM+ – digital solutions platform

Delivery of first pilot Floating Offshore Wind farm, Provence Grand Large for EDF

FPSO Carbon Capture module qualified by DNV

SBM OFFSHORE embraces the TRUE. BLUE. TRANSITION.

First Oil from 1st Fast4Ward® FPSO

Ammonia CALM buoy receives AiP from DNV

First FPSO with ABS Sustain-1 Notation

Intelligent Agent Mooring Line Integrity Tool qualified by ABS

Launch of SBM Offshore’s emissionZERO® program

The program targets floating energy production solutions with near zero emissions

First completed Fast4Ward^® hull

The hull for Liza Unity FPSO project arrives in Singapore for its topsides integration.

Liza Destiny FPSO is installed offshore Guyana

Making it the first installation for oil and gas production in the country

SBM Offshore moves into the renewable energy sector

With the launch of the Wind Floater program

SBM Offshore launches the Fast4Ward® Program

Leveraging standardized designs for construction of Multi-Purpose Floater hulls and topsides. With this program, SBM Offshore can deliver the product to clients faster and at lower cost, industrializing the FPSO business.

FPSO Turritella is installed in the Gulf of Mexico

Making it the world’s deepest moored unit

Generation 3 FPSO enters the market

FPSO Cidade de Paraty (Brazil)

FPSO Cidade de Paraty was constructed in line with expectations in 34 months from the signing of the Letter of Intent in June 2010 and meets local content requirements for Brazilian FPSOs. The FPSO will operate under a twenty year charter and operate contract on the Lula Nordeste development in the pre-salt area, offshore Brazil.

VHP Swivel rated at over 800 bar

New SBM Offshore Brand

SBM Offshore decided to change its business for good to strengthen its position as a global leader in floating production and mooring systems, in production operation, and in terminals and services.

Qualification of the AC High Voltage Swivel

SBM Offshore’s design for a High Voltage Swivel design was qualified. It is suitable for around 150 MW capacity and will allow large FPSOs to be fully powered from shore.

FPSO Aseng – FPSO supplied in record time

This FPSO project was delivered two months ahead of schedule and was delivered only two years after contract award. The Aseng FPSO has processing capacity for 120,000 barrels of liquids per day, including 80,000 barrels of oil and can handle 170 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The unit has storage capacity for 1.6 million barrels.

5,500 Ton Turret for Skarv FPSO

The internal turret, based on the bogie-bearing design, was installed on the Skarv FPSO owned by BP and represented one of the largest and most complex turrets ever built by SBM Offshore. The FPSO is on location in the Skarv field offshore Norway.

COOL™ LNG Transfer System

The COOL™ was the industry’s first fully qualified and certified floating offshore LNG transfer system. It represented a step change in the safe and reliable transfer of Liquified Natural Gas in tandem configuration.

+3 billion barrels produced oil & 200 years cumulative operating experience

SBM Offshore has the largest global floating production fleet to date. In 2010, we celebrated over 200 years of cumulative operating experience, over 3 billion barrels of oil produced through our units, and over 5,000 offloads. The fleet had an uptime average of 99%.

Largest Turnkey FPSO with 65% Local Content for Brazil

P-57 was the 8th Brazilian FPSO that SBM Offshore delivered and was the largest to date. Delivered ahead of schedule, it was the first contractor designed and supplied FPSO built with 65% local content.

50th Anniversary of the CALM Buoy

SBM’s introduction of the CALM Buoy in 1959 was the beginning of a technological revolution in the offshore oil and gas industry. Single Point Mooring (SPM) technology is now the standard in the loading and offloading of hydrocarbons.

First DeepDraft Semi with PHA Contract

Murphy Oil contracts for the five-year lease of a newbuild semisubmersible floating production unit for the development of the Thunder Hawk field offshore Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.

First Turret-Moored FPSO with SCRs

FPSO Espirito Santo is hooked up to the mooring lines in the BC-10 field offshore Brazil. It was the deepest moored FPSO of the company’s fleet and the first turret-moored FPSO in the world to use steel catenary risers for fluid transfers.

Largest Internal Turret

The internal turret mooring with 75 risers for FPSO P-53 for the Marlin Leste field offshore Brazil is completed and delivered to Petrobras.

FTL-GAP™ Fluid Transfer System

Installation, hookup and commissioning of the Gravity Actuated Pipe (GAP™) system is completed for the transfer of producing wells on the Kikeh field, offshore Malaysia.

Kuala Lumpur Execution Center Opens

SBM Offshore opens an execution center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This center increases the capacity of the company to execute large and complex projects.

Offshore Offloading Line Installed

The supply and installation of a Trelline™ flexible export line at Shell Nigeria’s Bonga field is successfully completed.

Deepest Semisubmersible

The industry-first DeepDraft Semisubmersible is installed in a world-record 8,000 ft (2,438 m) water depth on the Independence Hub in the Gulf of Mexico.

IHC Caland Becomes SBM Offshore N.V.

IHC Caland is renamed SBM Offshore N.V. The market downturn in the specialized shipbuilding market post-2000 and the financial imbalance and lack of synergy between shipbuilding and offshore oil and gas-related activities within the Group necessitate the divestiture of the Group’s shipyards beginning in 2003. By early 2005, all shipyards are sold.

Largest Sea Star® TLP delivered

Delivery of the fourth and largest SeaStar® to Total for installation on the Matterhorn field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Acquisition of Ocean Design Associates, Inc.

The Group acquires Ocean Design Associates (ODA), Inc. of Houston.

First Generic FPSO

ExxonMobil adopts the approach of leasing FPSOs and develops the generic FPSO concept. SBM wins the first contract with four more following.

Acquisition of Atlantia

The Group acquires Atlantia Offshore, a company that specialized in the design and construction of tension leg platforms (TLPs). This strategic move successfully complemented the Group’s range of products while providing all building blocks needed for large deepwater oil and gas developments.

Deepwater CALM Buoy

The company receives a contract for the first deepwater CALM buoy, Girassol.

Turnkey North Sea FPSO

Delivery of a newbuild FPSO (Anasuria) for Shell on a fixed-price turnkey basis.

North Sea Internal Turret

The company supplies the internal turret for the first permanently moored tanker in the North Sea for the Alba field, UK.

Acquisition of IMODCO

IHC Caland acquires the California-based company IMODCO, SBM’s largest competitor in the supply of single point mooring systems.

MSC Rejoins the Group

MSC (the engineers who left Gusto Engineering in 1978) are reintegrated back into the Group.

Disconnectable Turret

The first disconnectable turret system is installed on the Jabiru field, Australia.

Jacket Soft Yoke

For shallow water projects, the soft yoke mooring system replaces the SBS (Single Buoy Storage) system in many applications. Used in combination with a fixed jacket structure, production flows through steel pipe risers.

External Turret

The use of mooring systems in increasing water depths facilitates the move to tanker conversion via an external turret as a replacement of the Single Buoy Storage systems.

Leased FPSO

FPSO II, the first leased floating production system starts operations on the Cadlao field in the Philippines.

Gusto Engineering

After the closure of the Gusto shipyard in the 1970s, the decision is made to retain the engineering expertise and experience of the company with the creation of Gusto Engineering. Some of Gusto’s original engineers opted to form another independent company under the name Marine Structure Consultants (MSC) and specialize in jack-up technology.

SALS Mooring System

SBM develops the SALS (Single Anchor Leg Storage) yoke to eliminate the need for dynamic risers required for the typical CALM system, and to maximize production uptime through a permanent mooring on the site of the FPSO.

Semisubmersible Pipelay Vessel

The world’s first semisubmersible pipelay vessel, the Viking Piper, is delivered. The Viking Piper, now the Castoro 7, was considered to be the frontrunner of the third generation lay barges.

SBM Mooring System

SBM designs the first permanent mooring system when the Ifrika SBS was commissioned for Elf’s Ashtart field off the Tunisian coast in the Mediterranean.

DP Drillship

The first dynamically positioned drillship unit was delivered (development began in 1969). The Pelican class of DP drillships, some of which are still operating today, is well known in the industry.

SBM Inc. established in Switzerland

The market for SPM systems develops quickly, expanding to near-shore tanker loading and discharge and offshore oil fields. As these systems have a different clientele that require different technologies than the standard technologies of the Gusto yard, the decision is made to create a separate company for the marketing and further development of SPM systems. Single Buoy Moorings Inc. (SBM) is founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of IHC Holland, N.V.

Drilling Jackup

The Shell relationship developed during production of the first CALM Buoy, leading to the design of the first jackup drilling rig, the “Seashell.”

CALM Buoy

Gusto Shipyard constructs the first Single Point Mooring (SPM) facility under a license agreement with Shell.

Birth of Gusto Shipyard

The Smulders Machine Factory purchases a plot of marshland in Schiedam, The Netherlands, for new facilities. The relocated company is named “Werf Gusto.” Before construction of the facilities begins, the site is raised four meters. The Gusto yard, with its state of the art facilities, has a direct link to the North Sea.

A.F. Smulders Machine Factory

Entrepreneur A.F. Smulders starts his own factory, specializing in steam engines and boilers, before diversifying into an iron foundry.