IMA has been providing market research and strategic advisory services in the floating production sector for more than 30 years. We have worked for numerous clients at all levels of the supply chain.
Consulting Services - Our assignments have included advice on market positioning, acquiring a major leasing contractor, forming an alliance to bid for large FPSO contracts, evaluating redeployment options for FPSOs, establishing residual values in FPSO contracts, targeting unmet requirements through technology development, etc.
Floating Production Systems
Around 280 floating production systems of various types are in service worldwide and another 65+ are on order.
Production floaters are very complex systems. A deepwater production floater can easily be a $1 billion construction contract - really big units in ultradeepwater can exceed $3 billion. Their construction, leasing and operation provide very attractive business opportunities.
For more information on this business sector, please visit our monthly summary of "What's New" in the floating production sector.
Industry Research - We have produced more than 60 multi-client industry reports on the floating production sector over the past 20 years. Our "floater reports" have been a widely cited reference source in the offshore industry and our annual forecast of equipment orders has been widely referenced in investment presentations, industry publications and other consulting firm reports.
The final IMA floater report in our multi-client series was published in November 2013. IMA has now teamed up with Marine Link, the world's largest print and online maritime publisher, to create a deepwater business intelligence service. Our new company, World Energy Reports, combines IMA's floating production business experience with Marine Link's publishing/IT capability and worldwide network of industry correspondents. Click here for brochure.
Jim McCaul personally manages the consulting services and industry research assignments of IMA. He is the point of contact in IMA for these activities and is available on a daily basis to look into issues and obtain answers to client questions. For further information, please give him a call at 1 202 333 8501 or email imaassoc@msn.com.
2019 Annual Outlook. Our new 150-page report is the first professional effort to systematically look at the universe of FLNG and FSRU projects in the planning stage – and categorize the likelihood of each making the development investment hurdle. Many FLNG and FSRU projects are planned – but only some will ultimately will move forward to development. The goal of our report is to objectively sort out likely winners and losers – and explain the rationale for the rating.
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Following years in the pricing doldrums, LNG is hot again, with business prospects for floating production and regasification…
December 14, 2018
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Equinor the green light to extend the…
December 14, 2018
The Norwegian government has postponed a decision on whether to mandate the construction…
December 12, 2018
Western Gas announced Wednesday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…
Oil prices took a violent dive in November. Growing crude inventory has sparked fear of a new demand/supply imbalance developing – causing market sentiment to suddenly reverse. The potential of oil spiking to $100+ by year end has been replaced by worries of a repeat of the 2014/15 price collapse. But while recent developments have sent a chill through the oil sector, orders for new production floaters have been relatively strong.
December 14, 2018
Oil prices dropped about 2 percent on Friday, weighed down by a falling U.S. stock market, while weak economic data from…
December 14, 2018
U.S. energy firms cut oil rigs for a second week in a row this week, prolonging a move by drillers over the past month to…
December 14, 2018
A U.S. government auction for three wind leases off the coast of Massachusetts ended on Friday with record-setting bids totaling…