On September 10th 2008, the Naming Ceremony for the Petrobras Opportunity Oil FPSO Conversion was held in COSCO Dalian Shipyard. During the ceremony, Apollo Shoju was renamed as FPSO Cidade de Niteroi MV18. After delivery, the FPSO will join the Petrobras fleet in the Campos Basin. Mr Kenji Yamada, President of MODEC, Mr Figueiredo & Mr. Sanches Executive Managers from Petrobras and Mr Wang Xingru, President of COSCO Shipyard Group witnessed the ceremony.
The work scope for this VLCC conversion included repair & life extension, specialist FPSO structure construction, topsides module installation and integration as well the fitting of steel structure, cable pulling and piping work.
Up to now, COSCO Dalian Shipyard has achieved outstanding safety results a total of 4 million man hours have been spent on the two MODEC projects without any time being lost due to injury.