Peter Howard Wertheim
OGJ Correspondent
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar. 27 -- Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) reported that the P-50 floating production, storage, and offloading vessel is en route to Albacora Leste oil field in the Campos basin off Brazil (see map, OGJ, Aug. 9, 2004, p. 37).
Petrobras said the vessel has been undergoing sea trials to test various systems for the past 30 days. It expects to put the unit on stream to handle about 180,000 b/d of oil next month.
The P-50 will be tied into 16 production wells and will take some 6 months to reach its full capacity.
