Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO – Petrobras has contracted Keppel Shipyard to construct the seventh FPSO for the giant Búzios field in the presalt Santos basin offshore Brazil.
The P-78 will have capacity to process 180,000 b/d of oil and 7.2 MMcm/d of gas. The vessel will be connected to six producer and seven injector wells via a network of rigid production and injection pipelines and flexible service pipelines.
It is due to be delivered in 2024.
Keppel Offshore & Marine said the contract is worth $2.3 billion.
The company will fabricate the topsides modules weighing 43,000 metric tons at its shipyards in Singapore, China and Brazil, as well as undertake the integration and commissioning works of the FPSO. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. will provide the 85,000-metric ton hull and the living quarters for 240 persons.
According to Petrobras, the contract terms call for a local content of 25%, with services to be executed in Brazil through partnership or subcontracting of state-owned companies.
Petrobras is targeting production of more than 2 MMboe/d from Búzios by the end of the decade. Currently four FPSOs are in operation on the field with two more – the Almirante Barroso and Almirante Tamandaré – under construction.
The eighth and ninth units (P-79 and P-80) are in the contracting process.
05/10/2021
