Aker Energy is getting even more time to decide what to do with a laid-up Ocean Yield FPSO.

Ocean Yield announced that the Norwegian oil and gas outfit has until 1 September to decide whether or not to execute the 15-year bareboat charter option it has on the 214,266-cbm Dhirubhai-1 (built 1979).

Ocean Yield said Aker was paying for the rights, even as Ocean Yield looks for other employment opportunities for the ship — including paying for a study on behalf of another oil company.