By the OGJ Online Staff
LONDON, Apr. 6�Enterprise Oil PLC Friday said it planned to award FMC-Modec�a tie-up between FMC Corp.'s FMC Energy Systems unit and MODEC International LLC�the key $270 million contract to build the floating production storage and offloading system for the UK independent's Bijupirá-Salema development off Brazil.
FMC-Modec has been issued a letter of intent covering delivery of an FPSO with processing capacity for 70,000 b/d of oil and storage for 1 million bbl, as well as subsea equipment, for the Campos Basin field complex.
Under the deal, the contractor will deliver subsea kit associated with the 15 wells to be tied back to the floater, including christmas trees, risers, and umbilicals.
FMC-Modec was chosen from amongst four companies taking part in the front-end engineering design contract for the development: Single Buoy Moorings Inc., Nortrans Offshore Ltd., Halliburton Co. subsidiary Brown & Root, and Bluewater Offshore Production Systems Ltd.
The Bijupirá and Salema fields are located side-by-side 90 km off Cabo de São Tomé in water depths ranging from 480-880 m.
Enterprise Chief Executive Pierre Jungels said the field development was "key to (the company's ambition to build a significant business" in Brazil.
Last October, the UK independent awarded a $55 million drilling contract for Bijupirá-Salema to Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. Drilling operations using the semisub drill rig Ocean Yorktown are scheduled to begin midyear and last 24 months.
Enterprise's original plans for the two fields envisaged 7 production and 4 water injection wells being drilled on Bijupirá, and 3 production and 2 water injection on Salema.
The fields will have 3 subsea production manifolds, two of which will be located over Bijupirá field and one over Salema. The production manifolds will provide for production and testing of individual wells, distribution of lift gas, and "through" flowline pigging, according to project director Ron Bryans. The water injection wells on Bijupirá are to be manifolded, with chokes and control equipment located on the manifolds.
Production will be transported via shuttle tankers with associated gas exported via an existing line routed 25 km to Petroleo Brasileiro SA's P15 platform.
Enterprise expects Bijupirá-Salema, thought to hold more than 150 million boe combined, to flow at around 65,000 b/d.
The Bijupirá and Salema crude oils are said to be relatively light�28° API and 31° API, respectively�and deposited in an Eocene age sandstone reservoir of Carapebus formation.
The coventurers in the Bijupirá-Salema fields are: Enterprise (55%) Odebrecht Oil & Gas Ltd. (25%), and Brazilian company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (20%).