Petrobras lets subsea contract for Santos basin presalt

Petrobras let a contract to Subsea 7 SA for development of Mero-3 field, about 200 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2,200 m of water in Santos basin presalt.

Contract scope includes engineering, fabrication, installation, and pre-commissioning of 80 km of rigid risers and flowlines for the steel lazy wave production system, 60 km of flexible service lines, 50 km of umbilicals, and associated infrastructure, as well as installation of FPSO mooring lines and hook-up.

Project management and engineering will commence immediately at Subsea 7’s offices in Rio de Janeiro and Paris. Fabrication of the pipelines will take place at Subsea 7’s spoolbase at Ubu in the state of Vitória and offshore operations are scheduled to be executed in 2023 and 2024, using Subsea 7’s fleet of reeled rigid pipelay vessels.

Mero field is owned by the Libra consortium. Petrobras is operator (40%) with partners Shell (20%), Total (20%), CNPC (10%), and CNOOC Ltd. (10%).