EBR to manufacture modules for the P-79

(PetroleoHoje) EBR (Estaleiros do Brasil) will be responsible for the manufacture and assembly of seven process modules of the P-79, FPSO that will be installed in the Buzios field, in the Santos cluster, in 2025. The group was hired by the Daewoo / Saipem consortium building the production unit for Petrobras, being responsible for the entire national content of the project.

The work will be carried out at the EBR facilities, in João José do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul. The contract between the shipyard and the Daewoo/Saipem consortium was closed at the end of the year, but is still kept confidential.

Among the modules ordered from EBR are those for the treatment and separation of oil, water and gas. The oil separation module will be the largest module on the P-79.

The Daewoo / Saipem consortium and Estaleiro do Brasil did not reveal, so far, the value of the contract.

For the time being, the activity related to the contract remains focused on Engineering and Supply. The work stage will start in the first half of 2022.

The modules will be installed on the FPSO abroad. The modules ordered from EBR are expected to be shipped to the Daewoo shipyard in the second half of 2023.

Capable of producing 180,000 bpd, the P-79 is being built under the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) regime. Petrobras’ schedule foresees the arrival of the FPSO in December 2024.

EBR is also responsible for building part of the process modules of the FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão, in charge of SBM and destined for module 4 of the Mero field. The contract between the two companies was closed in November.

The deal with SBM involves building four process modules. Together, the contracts for the P-79 and FPSO Alexandre de Gusmão modules will mobilize a contingent of more than 2,500 workers at the shipyard.

Last year, the EBR had 3,500 people working at the shipyard in contracts arising from business related to the FPSOs Almirante Barroso, which is being converted by Modec to operate, in 2023, in module 5 of Buzios, and Sepetiba, the charge of SBM, destined for Mero 2.