Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) signed a contract with Keppel Shipyard Ltd. to build the P-78, the seventh floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to be installed in Búzios field, in the Santos basin presalt area offshore Brazil.
The unit will have a processing capacity of 180,000 b/d of oil and 7.2 million cu m/d of gas and is scheduled for delivery in 2024.
The project foresees the interconnection of 13 wells to the FPSO, 6 of them producers and 7 injectors, through a subsea infrastructure composed of rigid production and injection pipelines and flexible service pipelines, Petrobras said May 10.
Búzios field, discovered in 2010, is expected to reach the end of the decade with daily production above 2 MMboe/d, the company said.
Currently, there are four units operating in Búzios which account for more than 20% of Petrobras's total production. The fifth and sixth platforms (FPSOs Almirante Barroso and Almirante Tamandaré) are under construction, and the eighth and ninth units (FPSOs P-79 and P-80) are in the contracting process.
