Petrobras hunts Gulf shuttle tankers

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PEARL ENERGY

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Jonathan Davis

 26 March 2007 19:09 GMT

Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras is seeking via tender three shuttle tankers for crude oil transportation in the Gulf of Mexico, a bidder for the contract said.

Petrobras wants to be the first company to bring oil out of a floating, production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) in the deep-water Gulf and is aiming for delivery by 2009.

In late November, the US Minerals Management Service granted approval to Petrobras' conceptual plan to bring the first FPSO vessel into the Gulf.

The tender is expected to close this week, the bidder told Reuters last night.

Pipelines are the preferred method of oil transportation from Gulf of Mexico oilfields, but floating storage facilities are being considered for some new deep-water project, where…

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