(Portos e Navios) Subsea 7 is close to winning another EPCI SURF (undersea collection system) contract with Petrobras. With a proposal of US$ 6.609 billion, the company presented the best price in the oil company’s bid for the 8th module of the Buzios field, displacing Saipem, second place, which offered the value of US$ 7.311 billion.
Tender proposals were opened on Friday, after successive postponements. The bid values were revealed by a source from PetróleoHoje, also confirming that only Subsea 7 and Saipem submitted a bid.
The 8th module in Buzios is scheduled to start operating in 2025, including the FPSO P-79, which will have the capacity to produce 180,000 bpd and process up to 7.2 million m³/day of gas. The unit is being built by the Daewoo/Saipem consortium.
During this week, Petrobras will begin the process of direct negotiation with Subsea 7. The Norwegian group is responsible for the Mero 3 SURF, having also been hired by Equinor to execute the subsea system of the Bacalhau project.
Negotiations between Petrobras and Subsea 7 should extend until at least March. The expectation is that the signing of the contract does not occur before April.
The production system of the 8th module of the Buzios field will have 15 wells, eight producers, six WAG (Water Alternating Gás) injectors and a water injector, in addition to an export gas pipeline, which will be connected to Route 3, a gas pipeline that will flow to the coast. The contract will include engineering design, supply of goods, mooring of the unit, installations and subsea interconnections of rigid, flexible and umbilical ducts of the production system.
The tender for contracting the 8th module SURF system was launched in July 2021. The public notice originally provided for the delivery of an offer for mid-October.
The winning company will have to supply the risers, flowlines (rigid, flexible and umbilical), SDUs (Subsea Distribution Unit) and subsea equipment, in addition to the launch boats.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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