Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has signed letters of intent for the chartering of two floating production, storage, and offloading vessels for development of Marlim and Voador oil and gas fields in its Marlim cluster revitalization project offshore Brazil.
It signed one letter with Modec Inc., Tokyo, for Marlim Unit 1 to be installed in 670 m of water. Marlim 1 will be able to process as much as 80,000 b/d of oil and 7 million cu m/day of natural gas. It will have water-injection capacity of 390,000 b/d and minimum storage capacity of 1 million bbl of crude oil. Start-up is due in 2022.
Modec is to handle engineering, procurement, construction, mobilization, chartering, and operations for Marlim 1.
Petrobras also signed letters with Yinson, Kuala Lumpur, for charter, operations, and maintenance of Marlim Unit 2, due onstream in 2023 in 930 m of water.
Marlim 2 will have capacities of 70,000 b/d of oil and 4 million cu m/day of gas.
The Campos basin fields are 150 km offshore. The agreements have 25-year terms.