Ivanhoe signs deal with SBM Offshore to combine technologies
by The Canadian Press
Companies will combine expertise to build facilities that will economically produce offshore oil
CALGARY—Ivanhoe Energy said it has signed a deal with SBM Offshore to combine their expertise to build offshore facilities that will economically produce and upgrade heavy oil from offshore fields.
The companies said the strategic alliance was exploring a number of potential business models and applications.
“We expect this combination of technologies to become the pre-eminent method for producing and upgrading heavy oil at offshore locations around the world,” SBM chief technology officer Michael Wyllie said in a statement.
Ivanhoe Energy has a partial upgrading technology that reduces the viscosity of stranded heavy oil and produces synthetic crude oil.
SBM Offshore builds the massive floating production storage and offloading ships used by the offshore oil and gas industry.
