FPSO P-78 sails towards Brazil to produce in the Buzios field

Petrobras CEO,Magda Chambriard, announced that the FPSO P-78 has begun its journey to Brazil. The unit, which will be installed in the Buzios field, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, was in Singapore undergoing integration and commissioning stages. The Keppel/Hyundai consortium was responsible for building the vessel.

“And before anyone says that there is no local content, there were topsides made in Brazil. Directors Renata Baruzzi and Sylvia dos Anjos went to Singapore to participate in the delivery ceremony, together with our engineering team,” said Magda in a post on LinkedIn. In all, ten modules were built here in Brazil – out of a total of 21 – at the Brasfels shipyard, in Angra dos Reis (RJ). The manufacturing activities for the remaining modules, the hull and the integration were divided between shipyards in China, South Korea and Singapore.

The FPSO P-78 will have a daily processing capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil and 7.2 million m³ of gas. According to Petrobras, the unit will incorporate solutions that include increased energy efficiency, new CO2 separation and reinjection technologies, and reduced routine flaring, among others. The platform ship will be connected to 13 wells, 6 of which are producers and 7 are injectors, through an underwater infrastructure consisting of rigid production and injection pipelines and flexible service pipelines.