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Brazil Focus

Left - Petrobras’ Cenpes technol- ogy research center at Ilha do

Fundão in Rio de Janeiro.

Below - Petrobras headquarters in downtown Rio de Janeiro.

the FPSO Cidade de Paraty to the Guangzhou, China, northeast area of the Lula feld in from a 400m long the Santos pre-salt. The FPSO has a and 70m wide tank capacity to process 120,000b/d and vessel. fve million cu m/d of natural gas. Ten topsides

Petrobras says it aims to exceed modules for the one million bo/d in production by FPSO are under 2017, and it intends to do that by construction at SBM installing 11 additional platforms Offshore’s BRASA from 2014-2016. Ten of those will yard in Niteroi,

Images: Audrey Leon/OE be located in the Santos Basin. which is surrounded

Currently, Santos provides 43% of by Guanabara Bay.

Petrobras’ pre-salt production, ap- The BRASA yard is handle buying equipment and con- proximately 129,000 b/d. a 50/50 joint venture between SBM struction operations,” says Phillipe

Offshore and Synergy. The company Levy, managing director of SBM Off-

On the horizon refurbished the yard: warehouses, shore Brazil. “Once Brasfels became

One of the next FPSOs to be installed administrative offces, construction backed up, we needed to create our in the Northern Sapinhoa feld, in facilities, and rebuilt an access own solution.” the Santos bridge in 2012. SBM Offshore says Levy says it wasn’t politically

Basin, is the the yard was the company’s solu- correct to build anywhere else but

FPSO Cidade tion to solve bottlenecks in Brazil. Brazil due to local content rules. He de Ilhabela. The site also offers a crane barge (the says FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela will

The unit is Pelicano-1) and integration quayside. have 65% local content, double that owned by a The topside facilities, now under of what was used on FPSOs before shareholding construction, will process 150,000 P-57 was constructed.

consortium b/d of production fuids, associated These days, SBM Offshore’s new comprised of gas treatment for six million cu m/d focus is FPSOs, Levy says.

SBM Offshore, with compression and carbon diox- “Santos pre-salt is very complex,”

Image: SBM Offshore

Queiroz Galvão ide removal, hydrogen sulfde re- he says. “We’re talking about very

Phillipe Levy, man-

Óleo e Gás moval, and a water injection facility challenging projects, and we like aging director of (QGOG) and for 180,00b/d. Integration is expected that.”

SBM Offshore Brazil

Mitsubishi by April 2014, with frst production That attitude must have im-

Corp., which also owns FPSO Ci- to follow in September. pressed Petrobras because at the dade de Paraty. The FPSO’s hull is “With FPSO P-57, we needed 65% end of March, it awarded SBM being converted at CSSC Shipyard in local content, and we needed to Offshore a letter of intent (LOI) for have a local organization that could

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