Petrobras’s Búzios-6 project (seventh module of Búzios), offshore Santos basin, Brazil, is advancing with an assignment agreement signed between Maersk Supply Service Co. and TechnipFMC PLC for comprehensive FPSO towing and mooring.
Petrobras let a subsea engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to TechnipFMC for the project in January 2022 (OGJ Online, Jan. 25, 2022).
The scope covers pre-installation of the mooring system and hook up of the FPSO P-78, the seventh in Búzios field. The project will be carried out over almost 2 years, with onshore work (including engineering, procurement, and project management) already under way, and offshore work expected to utilize two of Maersk Supply Service’s M-class anchor handlers, which will be supported by an additional four anchor handling tug supply ships for the station keeping.
With a processing capacity of 180,000 b/d of oil and 7.2 million cu m/d of gas, FPSO P-78 is scheduled for delivery in 2024. The project foresees interconnection of 13 wells to the FPSO, six of them producers and seven injectors, through a subsea infrastructure composed of rigid production and injection pipelines and flexible service pipelines (OGJ Online, May 10, 2021).
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).