(PN) Petrobras is in direct negotiations with Seatrium (a company formed by the merger between Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore) for the construction of platform ships (FPSOs) P-84 and P-85. The vessels will be installed by Petrobras in the Atapu and Sépia fields, respectively, both located in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin. In Brazil, Seatrium operates the BrasFELS shipyards, in Angra dos Reis (RJ) and Jurong Aracruz, in Aracruz (ES).
Petrobras opened direct conversations with Seatrium after the other competitor withdrew from the bidding. The China Offshore Oil Engineering Corporation (COOEC) was in contention for the contracts, but was forced to give up the deal. The decision was influenced by the problems that the Chinese company would face in reaching local content, due to the deadlines for building modules on both platforms.
The P-84 (Atapu) and P-85 (Sépia) platforms will each have a daily production capacity of 225 thousand barrels of oil per day and processing of 10 million cubic meters of gas per day. The start of production scheduled for 2028.
The project is expected to reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions by 30% per barrel of oil equivalent produced. The reduction is due to the benefits of the All Electric configuration, optimizations in the processing plant to increase energy efficiency and the incorporation of several technologies: zero routine ventilation (recovery of ventilated gases from the cargo tanks and the processing plant), deep capture of seawater, use of speed variators in pumps and compressors, cogeneration (Waste Heat Recovery Unit), routine zero burning (torch gas recovery – closed flare) and valves with requirements for low fugitive emissions and capture , use and geological storage of CO2 from the gas produced.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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