Testing for exposure to benzene: as multi-billion pound FPSO industry meets in London, AB Biomonitoring reports on key safety tools

“Safety is paramount. An FPSO vessel can hold up to 2 million barrels of oil at a time”One of the oil and gas industry’s growing specialised sectors – the floating production, storage and offloading vessels market (FPSO) – holds its fourth annual conference  in London on the 5th and 6th March. There are now nearly two hundred of these vessels across the globe, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, with the largest capable of storing 2.2 million barrels of oil, and costing over $800 million to build. An FPSO is a floating vessel