Japanese floating technology expert MODEC has awarded Aker Kvaerner the $13 million task of providing process modules for a floating production storage and offloading vessel, or FPSO, the Norway-based supplier contractor announced Wednesday.

The contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, assembly, test and delivery of an Aker sulphate removal unit, or SRU. Aker Kvaerner workshops in Port Klang, Malaysia, will build the kit engineered in Oslo. MODEC’s offices are nearby in Singapore.

MODEC won the Spotlight Prize for the Offshore Technology Conference 2007 in Houston for its MOSES “Self Stable Integrated Platform (SSIP) Tension Leg Platform (TLP)”.

The design allows for the quayside integration and commissioning of the topsides, greater stability during transportation and during installation and savings in offshore installation costs and time since no extra stability modules are needed and a wider range of installation vessels are permitted.

MODEC evolved the concept with Sea Engineering, Inc., and the MOSES SSIP TLP technology was first used in early 2006 on Hess Corporation’s Okume E and F twin tension-leg platforms offshore Equatorial Guinea.