Danish safety authority delivers harsh report on FPSO incident

MAERSK FPSOs and Lloyd’s Register both played a straight bat to a scathing Danish Maritime Authority (DMA) finding on the causes of the Maersk FPSOs-owned Ngujima-Jin floating production storage and offloading vessel explosion off Western Australia last year.

The authority’s division for investigation of maritime accidents found that the primary reason for the incident was compressor failure on April 13 due to a flow transmitter error.
After the failure, the explosion and fire had developed through a...

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