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and injections modules, along with all to weathervane (Rotate in the horizontal (45%), in partnership with BG E&P Brasil the redundant safety systems required for plane due to wind, waves or current),” (30%) and Repsol Sinopec Brasil (25%).

such a vessel. Once the module inte- said SBM Offshore Project Manager The FPSO will be owned and oper- gration is completed the vessel will be Martijn Kleijn, who accompanied the ated by a joint venture owned by SBM installed on the Sapinhoá presalt feld, author on a visit to the FPSO. Offshore with other partners including

Vessels spread moored at a water depth of 2140m. The FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela will Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás S.A. (QGOG). “A spread mooring system was chosen be linked to around 20 wells, with an Once in operation FPSO Cidade de for this FPSO because of its size and the estimated production of 150,000 bo/d Ilhabela will be SBM Offshore’s largest extreme water depth. With this system, and capability to compress 6MMcu. m/d FPSO. It is the company’s second vessel a group of mooring lines is distributed of gas. The vessel is designed to last 25 in the Generation 3 model, engineered over the bow and stern of the vessel to years and the newbuild accommodation to the specifcations of the presalt plays anchors on the seafoor. The vessel is block is designed for a crew of 120 per- offshore Brazil. The frst is FPSO Cidade positioned in a fxed heading, which sons to live in comfort. The oil produced de Paraty, which achieved frst oil in June is determined by the sea and weather at Sapinhoá is high quality and medium 2013. The next pair of FPSOs Cidade de conditions. The symmetrical arrange- density, graded at 27° API, along with Maricá and Cidade de Saquarema also for ment of anchors helps to keep the ship associated CO2 and traces of H2S. The offshore Brazil, will be copies of Cidade on its fxed heading location. The spread consortium that owns the Sapinhoá feld, de Ilhabela and their modules will also be mooring system does not allow the vessel in BM-S-9 block, is operated by Petrobras fabricated at the Brasa shipyard.

Phillipe Levy, Country Manager in Brazil, explains SBM Ofshore’s strategy of building and integrating modules in

First lifting of topside module onto FPSO by Pelicano-1 crane. Cidade de Ilhabela

Brazil. Photo: Claudio Paschoa.

Photo: Stephanie Chauvin/Brasa shipyard.

FPSO begins module Cidade de Ilhabela integration at quayside 2 at the Brasa shipyard. Photo: Brasa Shipyard.

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