A System for enabling remote control of floating production units.

Abstract

The invention relates to a System for enabling remote control of a Floating Production, FP, unit, such as a Floating Production Storage and Offloading, FPSO, unit The System for enabling remote control of the FPU comprises; a dedicated keyboard, video and mouse. KVM, network configured to establish a point-to-point dedicated link between one or more local human-machine interface. HMI. devices and one or more remote HMI devices, the one or more local HMI devices being installed in one or more local control rooms on the FPU. the one or more local control rooms being configured to enable monitoring operations and / or controlling operations on the FPU via the one or more local HMI devices, and the one or more remote HMI devices being installed in one or more remote control rooms at a remote location away from the FPU. The invention further relates to a method of remotely controlling the FPU via the system.