Petrobras awards subsea EPCI contract to TechnipFMC
Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has let a subsea engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract to TechnipFMC PLC for Búzios 6 field (module 7), a greenfield development in the presalt area in 2,000 m of water about 200 km offshore Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The contract covers flexible and rigid pipe, umbilicals, pipeline end terminals, rigid jumpers, umbilical termination assemblies, and a mooring system.
The flexible pipe, umbilicals, and subsea structures, as well as some of the rigid pipe, will be manufactured in Brazil, minimizing carbon footprint associated with transportation and installation.
Búzios began production in April 2018 and has already produced around 100 MMboe. Average daily production of the field has reached 600,000 boe/d with four FPSOs installed (P-74, P-75, P76, P-77).
Alex Procyk | Upstream Editor
Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal. He has also served as a principal technical professional at Halliburton and as a completion engineer at ConocoPhillips. He holds a BS in chemistry (1987) from Kent State University and a PhD in chemistry (1992) from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).