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FPSO is an abbreviation for Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel.
A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.
 
FPSOs, are offshore oil and gas production facilities that house both processing equipment and storage.
 
 
Most FPSOs comprise a ship-shaped vessel, with processing equipment on board the vessel's deck and storage below in the double hull.
 
After processing, an FPSO stores oil or gas before offloading periodically to shuttle tankers or transmitting processed petroleum via pipelines.
 
 
Some FPSOs are converted tankers.
 
Others are purpose-built.


A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Fossil fuel]]
* [[Frequency distribution]]
* [[International Maritime Organization]]
* [[Leptokurtosis]]
* [[OPEC]]
* [[Lognormal frequency distribution]]
* [[Peak oil]]
* [[Mean reversion]]
* [[Poseidon Principles]]
* [[Normal distribution]]
* [[Renewables]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Tail]]
* [[Trend analysis]]
* [[Volatility smile]]


[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Investment]]

Revision as of 14:19, 23 October 2012

A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.

A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).

See also