The Consórcio Tomé Ferrostaal (CTF) consortium of Rheinmetall International Engineering, and Brazilian company Tomé Engenharia, delivered two modules for the first of a series of six floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to Brazilian national oil company Petrobras.
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Petrobras’ Cidade de Mangaratiba FPSO. From Petrobras. |
Modules M8 and M10 were loaded onto the Barge S. Tomé in October and sailed away to its final destination in Angra dos Reis. The sixth and final module package is scheduled for delivery by 2016.
According to CTF, the total order is worth approximately US$950 million and is part of Petrobras's long-term investment program for the Brazilian government to open up the discovered Lula (formerly Tupi) offshore oil and gas field off the southeast coast of Brazil, starting in 2016. The strategic goal of the government is to increase the Brazilian daily oil production from 2MMbbl in 2014 to 4.2MMbbl by the end of the decade.
For this project, the CTF consortium built a new construction yard with its own workshops and production facilities at the port of Maceio located in the northeast part of Brazil. Using its own yard, CTF is able to provide the construction of the modules including engineering, procurement, manufacturing and assembling for the approximately 300m-long ships for the contract awareded by Petrobras in 2012 to provide modules to equip six FPSOs.
Earlier this month, Petrobras announced it would install a permanent 4D seismic monitoring system at the 1500sq km Lula field, in the pre-salt Santos basin. Petrobras already installed similar systems in other areas of the Santos basin and at the Jubarte, Roncador, East Albacore, Barracuda, and Caratinga fields, in the Campos basin.
In late August, Petrobras’ Cidade de Mangaratiba FPSO began its journey from the BrasFels shipyard in Angra dos Reis to the Iracema South area of Lula field. The FPSO will be connected to wells in the pre-salt layer of the Santos basin, anchored 240km offshore in 2200m of water, and will be connected to eight production and eight injection wells. The Cidade de Mangaratiba has the capacity to produce 150,000b/d, compress 8MMcm/d of natural gas, store 1.6MMbbl, and inject 240,000 barrels of water per day.
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