Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The P-32 platform has departed the Marlim Field in the Campos Basin and is heading to the Rio Grande shipyard in Rio Grande do Sul state for recycling.
Marlim operator Petrobras sold the platform this July to Gerdau S.A. and the Ecovix shipyard. It will be Brazil’s first floating facility removal operation to follow Petrobras’ new sustainable disposal model, with a further 11 floating platforms due to follow the same guidelines over the next five years.
The approved recycling plan covers the process from the first procedures for receiving the structure through to dismantling in a dry dock, to final disposal of the resulting waste. Petrobras will monitor execution throughout the recycling process to ensure HSE compliance.
P-32 is one of 10 platforms that have operated at the Marlim and Voador fields in the Campos Basin. The field's current revitalization project involves replacing nine of the original installations with the newbuild FPSOs, Anna Nery and Anita Garibaldi, each capable of producing up to 150,000 bbl/d of oil.
“With these replacements, we have reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 50%,” said Alex Murteira Célem, general manager of Petrobras’ Campos Basin Exploration and Production Business Unit. “It is one of the fronts of the Campos Basin Renewal Plan, which foresees investment of $22 billion by 2028, with more than 200 new interconnected wells, in addition to four new FPSOs.”
According to the company, P-32 was a deepwater pioneer, which had been handling and exporting oil since 1997. Along with the FPSO P-47, it delivered large volumes produced in the northern area of Marlim, with more than 130 MMboe processed on the P-18, P-19, P-20 and P-27 platforms.
In 2013 it was treating, storing and exporting about 70% of the oil produced from the field and 20% of the Albacora Field’s oil.
11.28.2023
