A quartet of floater specialists was left on tenterhooks this week when a Brazilian court suspended a Petrobras tender for a floating production, storage and offloading vessel to serve the giant Libra pre-salt development in the Santos basin.
The Libra tender had already been subjected to a string of minor delays, but these were self-imposed by the Petrobras-led consortium.
Modec International, BW Offshore, Bluewater and SBM Offshore are the main contenders.
