Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Petrobras has started operations at the FPSO P-71 on the Itapu Field in the presalt Santos Basin, 200 km from the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The vessel is designed to process up to 150,000 bbl/d of oil and 6 MMcm/d of gas, and can store up to 1.6 MMbbl of oil.
Startup was ahead of the original schedule, said Petrobras' chief production development officer, João Henrique Rittershaussen.
“We will also be able to anticipate the ramp-up [to the maximum production capacity in 2023]...which is excellent news not only for Petrobras but also for the country, which will receive the royalties from this production earlier," he said.
P-71, stationed in 2,010 m water depth, will be the sole production vessel on the Itapu Field, which the company operates under Brazil’s Transfer of Rights and Production Sharing regimes.
It is also the sixth and final `replicant’ design platform commissioned by the company. The FPSOs have a standardized engineering design, a high-production capacity and technologies for reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions and flare gas recovery.
12.22.2022
