Aker Floating Production () is a

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Floating Production Storage and Offloading

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operator. The company is part of the Aker Group with Aker ASA owning 44.27% of the company. It is listed on

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. The company was founded 14 March 2006, and listed on 26 June 2006. It has purchased three

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for conversion to FPSO vessels, and the first vessel was delivered in the third quarter of 2007. The company plans to have four FPSOs in operation by 2009. First commercial contract for operation was on the Indian oil field Dhirubhai 1.

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