Petrobras poised for Santos FPSO contest

Huge contract: Petrobras chief executive Maria das Gracas Foster.

EPA/HO/SCANPIX

By Fabio Palmigiani Rio de Janeiro

 10 May 2012 22:59 GMT

Brazil’s Petrobras is due to ­receive commercial proposals on 31 July in a fresh tender covering integration work and construction of a total of 38 topside modules for the first two floating production, storage and offloading vessels to be ­deployed on open acreage in the Santos ­basin pre-salt province.

The state-owned giant launched the bidding on 2 May, and it is understood to have invited contractors such as Keppel Fels, Jurong Shipyard, Queiroz Galvao, OSX and the Enseada do Paraguacu consortium, formed by Odebrecht, UTC and OAS, to participate.

The Paraguacu consortium has already won the contract to carry out conversion work on the four FPSO hulls — P-74, P-75, P-76 and P-77 — at the Inhauma dry dock facility in Rio de Janeiro state.

The three partners signed an agreement with Petrobras worth about $1.7 billion and are expected to begin…

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