The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, and Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster, attended the work completion ceremony for the P-62 platform on 17 Dec 2013, at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard, in Ipojuca (state of Pernambuco). Before the ceremony, Rousseff, Graça Foster and their entourages visited the construction works of the Abreu e Lima Refinery, at the Suape Port Complex, in Suape.
After unveiling the plaque celebrating the completion of the work for the P-62, the president noted that in 2003 the shipbuilding industry employed 7000 people, and is currently 79,000 strong. "With oil lifting from the pre-salt picking up speed and gaining scale, Brazil will become the largest oil platform producer in the 21st century," she said. Six to seven drilling rigs and 19 tankers will be built at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard alone in the upcoming years, remarked the president.
Graça Foster thanked the workers involved in the work and said she was thrilled with the completion of the P-62, the ninth production unit delivered this year. "Last January, we spoke with all companies that would deliver platforms, and we showed how important it would be for us to increase the (oil) production curve. And to do that, we needed to break all records that have already been broken: deliver nine production platforms. We did that today, with the P-62," she celebrated. She also stressed the importance of the platform and of the Roncador field, in the Campos basin, to our current and future production.
The P-62 will be capable of processing up to 180,000 bbl of oil and 6 MMcfd. The work created about 5000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs, and reached about 63% domestic content. The unit is expected to go on stream in the first quarter of 2014.
Also attending the ceremony were ministers Edison Lobão (Mines and Energy), Aguinaldo Ribeiro (Cities), Helena Chagas (head of the Presidency of the Republic's Social Communications Department), the governor of the state of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos, the CEO of Petrobras Transporte (Transpetro), Sergio Machado, and Petrobras directors José Formigli (Exploration and Production), José Carlos Cosenza (Downstream) and José Antônio de Figueiredo (Engineering, Technology and Materials), among others.
Visit to the Abreu e Lima Refinery
Before the ceremony, when greeting the workers at the refinery, Dilma mentioned that the Abreu e Lima Refinery will be the largest in the country. "With this refinery, we are taking another step for our country to be a major oil producer and transformer. This refinery you have built will be the largest diesel producing refinery in Brazil. Today is a day of celebration," she noted. Then, Graça also congratulated the workers: "This is a dream. Everything was possible thanks to your work. Congratulations to all."
The project is 83.1% complete. The unit will process 230,000bo/d when the second phase, scheduled to be delivered in May 2015, goes into operation. The figure represents approximately 11% of the current oil refining capacity in Brazil. The first phase is expected to start in November 2014.
Construction
The hull of the MT Suva vessel underwent adaptations at the Jurong shipyard, in Singapore, before arriving at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard (EAS), in Ipojuca (state of Pernambuco), in January 2012. At EAS, it underwent the conversion and integration stages in order to be turned into a FPSO vessel, under the responsibility of the Camargo Correia and Iesa consortium (CCI).
The construction of the 15 modules of the platform, responsible for oil, gas and water processing and treatment, was also done in Brazil by means of three packages with contractors UTC Engenharia, in Niterói (state of Rio de Janeiro) - process and compression modules, and Empresa Brasileira de Engenharia (CEE), in Itaguaí (RJ) - process modules.
Once completed, the modules were transported by barges and delivered to CCI, in Ipojuca, where they were hoisted on to the ship's hull and connected for subsequent commissioning and testing, which finalized the construction of the FPSO.
In addition to the modules, the P-62 also comprises a pipe-rack (structure for piping), helideck, flare and accommodations. The unit is capable of generating 100 MW of electricity, equivalent to the consumption of a city of 330,000 inhabitants, and is 119m in height, 330m long, and its weight exceeds 60,000 tonnes.
Data Sheet
About the Abreu e Lima Refinery
Abreu and Lima will be our operating unit with the highest rate of conversion into diesel fuel: equivalent to 70% of the unit's production. The refinery will also produce other oil products, such as naphtha, petroleum coke, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), among others.
Products delivered by Abreu and Lima are intended, predominantly, to supply the Northern/Northeastern Brazilian markets. The project currently generates about 40,000 direct jobs, and is being built with 86% local content.
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