Petrobas’ P-66 platform’s first modules ready for load-out

Offshore staff

Rio de Janeiro –The P-66 platform’s first modules are ready and loaded on the Sao Tome barge, Petrobras reported. The oil processing module and the oil processing and produced water treatment module will be taken on the barge to the Brasfels shipyard in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro. The barge is expected to depart tomorrow and arrive in Angra dos Reis next month. Sao Luis, another barge, will transport the launcher, receiver and manifold modules by the end of November.

The Brasfels Shipyard was hired to integrate theP-66 and P-69 platforms. This integration work included hoisting the modules, installing them on the hull, interconnecting the modules to one another and the hull’s systems, and then testing everything. The P-66platform’s hull is currently in the final testing phase at the Rio Grande 1 Shipyard (ERG-1), located in the city of Rio Grande, in Rio Grande do Sul, and it will also be shipped to Angra dos Reis before the end of November.

TheP-66 is the first platform in a series of six “Replicant” floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs), which are being built to meet pre-salt oil production demands in the Santos Basin. The completion and shipment of the modules fabricated in Maceió mark the start of the integration phase for the “Replicant” FPSOs, which will contribute to production capacity to help Petrobras achieve its target of producing 4.2 MM b/d in 2020.

10/29/2014