Petrobras opens bids for pre-salt riser systems

By GARETH CHETWYND Rio de Janeiro

 04 April 2012 20:44 GMT

PETROBRAS has received bids in a $2 billion tender for decoupled riser systems that will serve four floating production, storage and offloading vessels in the Brazilian pre-salt province.

The project promises to be twice as big as the $1 billion Sapinhoa (Guara)-Lula Northeast contract, awarded to Subsea 7 in early 2011.

Two of the riser systems will be deployed on chartered FPSOs that will be used as pilot production projects on the Guara North and Cernambi fields and discoveries on blocks BM-S-11 and BM-S-9. First production on these units is scheduled for July 2014 and October 2014, respectively.

The other two riser systems will handle production on FPSOs to be deployed on Lula Alto and Lula Central. These are part of…

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