FPSO Falcon

At 151,123 gross tons, FPSO Falcon is the 1,409th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 25 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 911 rig / offshore units held here, it ranks 10th by tonnage — larger than 99% of that group. Their median tonnage is 9,254 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 51,732 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Liberia (179 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Hanwha Ocean, with 27 hulls on record.

Palau is the country of registry for 364 vessels in this directory, of which FPSO Falcon is the 12th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (144 ships), and the median vessel measures 8,686 GT. Browse every ship flagged Palau.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2 rig / offshore units flying the Palau flag, of which none is larger than FPSO Falcon.

FPSO Falcon was built in 1975, making it 51 years old. It is one of 1,913 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,929 GT; within it this ship is the 11th largest. Across the whole of the 1970s the registry holds 17,331 vessels, median 2,774 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 83 vessels to Kawasaki Heavy Industries, with a median tonnage of 30,812 GT, delivered between 1930 and 2020. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 362.8 m overall, FPSO Falcon is 288.8 m longer than the 74.0 m median for rig / offshore units on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7373092 this registry holds 63 other vessels, whose median build year is 1975. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.