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Petrobras to 'clone' big rig, wants same builders
Reuters - Thursday, April 3RIO DE JANEIRO, April 2 - Brazil's Petrobras will order a new giant platform modeled on a working production unit and it wants the same firms, led by Singapore's Jurong, to build it, the state oil company said on Wednesday.
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"The P-62 platform to be installed on Roncador field will be a clone of P-54, which cost $900 million. The company will talk to the same companies that built the P-54 to set an acceptable price," a Petrobras spokesman said.
Prices of oil exploration and production equipment have soared in the past two years, tracking oil prices.
The 180,000 barrels-per-day P-54 started pumping crude in December. It was built over 41 months by companies including Jurong Shipyards, which is a unit of SembCorp Marine , U.S.-based energy equipment manufacturer Dresser-Rand Group Inc and Italy's Nuovo Pignone.
Normally, a separate licensing tender would be needed to choose the firms, but as the platform design will be very similar, Petrobras said legislation allowed it to strike the same deal with the same contractors.
The P-62 will be a tanker-based floating production storage and offloading unit capable of storing 1.8 million barrels and compressing 6 million cubic meters of gas. It will work in deep waters off the Brazilian coast in the Campos basin. Petrobras aims to crank it up in 2012.
Jurong converted a tanker for the P-54 in Singapore, but the platform was put together at the Maua-Jurong shipyard in Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro.
Last year, Petrobras sealed a similar $1.4 billion contract for a "clone" platform after months of exclusive negotiations with a consortium comprising Singapore's Keppel Corp Offshore & Marine Ltd. and Technip , a French energy services group.
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Petrobras to 'Clone' P-54 FPSO for the Roncador Field
Petrobras Thursday, April 03, 2008
Petrobras has approved the early stage of contracting for platform P-62, slated to be installed in Module 4 at the Roncador Field, in the Campos Basin.
After carrying out several internal technical and economic studies, the Company decided the best option was to reuse the P-54 project to build the P-62. In effect, Petrobras intends to "clone" platform P-54.
The P-62 will be a FPSO (Production, Storage, and Off-loading) type unit capable of producing 180,000 barrels of oil per day, of storing 1.8 million barrels of oil, and of compressing 6 million cubic meters of natural gas. The unit will be anchored at a water depth of 1,545 meters.
The P-54 was built in a period of 41 months after three agreements were signed in June 2004. The gas compression modules were built by the Dresser-Rand and Maua Jurong consortium; the power generation module was made by Nuovo Pignone, while the Jurong Shipyard was in charge of hull conversion, in Singapore, of constructing the unit's other modules, and of integrating the unit at the Maua shipyard, in Niteroi.
As was the case with the P-54, platform P-62 will also have national content requirements, and is expected to generate 2,600 direct and upwards of 10,000 indirect jobs.
Reuters - Thursday, April 3RIO DE JANEIRO, April 2 - Brazil's Petrobras will order a new giant platform modeled on a working production unit and it wants the same firms, led by Singapore's Jurong, to build it, the state oil company said on Wednesday.
ADVERTISEMENT
"The P-62 platform to be installed on Roncador field will be a clone of P-54, which cost $900 million. The company will talk to the same companies that built the P-54 to set an acceptable price," a Petrobras spokesman said.
Prices of oil exploration and production equipment have soared in the past two years, tracking oil prices.
The 180,000 barrels-per-day P-54 started pumping crude in December. It was built over 41 months by companies including Jurong Shipyards, which is a unit of SembCorp Marine , U.S.-based energy equipment manufacturer Dresser-Rand Group Inc and Italy's Nuovo Pignone.
Normally, a separate licensing tender would be needed to choose the firms, but as the platform design will be very similar, Petrobras said legislation allowed it to strike the same deal with the same contractors.
The P-62 will be a tanker-based floating production storage and offloading unit capable of storing 1.8 million barrels and compressing 6 million cubic meters of gas. It will work in deep waters off the Brazilian coast in the Campos basin. Petrobras aims to crank it up in 2012.
Jurong converted a tanker for the P-54 in Singapore, but the platform was put together at the Maua-Jurong shipyard in Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro.
Last year, Petrobras sealed a similar $1.4 billion contract for a "clone" platform after months of exclusive negotiations with a consortium comprising Singapore's Keppel Corp Offshore & Marine Ltd. and Technip , a French energy services group.
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Petrobras to 'Clone' P-54 FPSO for the Roncador Field
Petrobras Thursday, April 03, 2008
Petrobras has approved the early stage of contracting for platform P-62, slated to be installed in Module 4 at the Roncador Field, in the Campos Basin.
After carrying out several internal technical and economic studies, the Company decided the best option was to reuse the P-54 project to build the P-62. In effect, Petrobras intends to "clone" platform P-54.
The P-62 will be a FPSO (Production, Storage, and Off-loading) type unit capable of producing 180,000 barrels of oil per day, of storing 1.8 million barrels of oil, and of compressing 6 million cubic meters of natural gas. The unit will be anchored at a water depth of 1,545 meters.
The P-54 was built in a period of 41 months after three agreements were signed in June 2004. The gas compression modules were built by the Dresser-Rand and Maua Jurong consortium; the power generation module was made by Nuovo Pignone, while the Jurong Shipyard was in charge of hull conversion, in Singapore, of constructing the unit's other modules, and of integrating the unit at the Maua shipyard, in Niteroi.
As was the case with the P-54, platform P-62 will also have national content requirements, and is expected to generate 2,600 direct and upwards of 10,000 indirect jobs.