MISC Vietnam FPSO successfully installed

Kuala Lumpur: MISC's joint venture floating production storage and offloading vessels FPSO Ruby II has been successfully installed offshore Vietnam. The FPSO owned by MISC and PetroVietnam Technical Services Corp joint venture, Vietnam Offshore Floating Terminals, is leased to Petronas' PC Vietnam for a period of eight years. The FPSO Ruby II achieved first oil on 9 June and is moored offshore at the Ruby Field 160km offshore Vietnam. The vessel is conversion of the 1990-built tanker Cherry II carried out at Malaysian Marine and Heavy Engineering shipyard. [15/06/10]