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The first steel of the Karish and Tanin floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel ordered by Energean Oil and Gas was cut at China's COSCO Zhoushan Shipyard on Monday, November 26.
The vessel has a scheduled delivery in late 2020.
It is slated to begin production at the Karish field offshore Israel in the first quarter of 2021.