• Wednesday, 16 May, 2012

Petrobras mulls FPSO topside proposals

Topside options: Jose Sergio Gabrielli listening to offers on FPSO topside work

Eoin O'Cinneide/Upstream

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By Fabio Palmigiani

 07 February 2012 15:19 GMT

Brazilian oil giant Petrobras was on Tuesday receiving commercial proposals on a massive tender covering the fabrication of topsides modules and integration on eight FPSO vessels.

The vessels are to be used in the Lula and Sapinhoa pre-salt fields in the Santos basin.



Petrobras has invited more than 20 companies to bid for the multi-billion dollar contracts and will be accepting the offers throughout the entire day, after holding brief, closed-door meetings with each group.



One well-informed source told Upstream that Petrobras is only expected to reveal the prices at a later date, still to be announced.



Petrobras intends to divide the integration work of the eight FPSOs between a maximum of three contractors.



It is understood that each of the three contractors will receive a firm order to carry out the integration of two FPSOs, with an option for a third floater depending on performance, meaning that two companies will be awarded the integration of three vessels and one will work on just two.



Petrobras is also dividing topsides bidding into five smaller packages containing up to 16 modules for each replica floater.



The first package includes the pipe-rack, flare system, carbon dioxide removal, sulphate removal, water injection and automation-electric modules. Companies selected for the integration process will also be responsible for fabricating the modules from this first lot.



The second package covers the gas fuel-dehydration modules, while the third lot features the carbon dioxide injection, gas export, gas injection and the steam compression-recovery modules.



Package four comprises the oil processing, water treatment and manifolds modules, and finally the fifth package involves two distinct power generation modules.



Among the companies that are expected to submit offers are Brazilian engineering groups Odebrecht, Camargo Correa, Queiroz Galvao, Andrade Gutierrez, Keppel Fels, UTC Engenharia, GDK, Iesa, Techint and EBE.

Brazilian engineering outfit Engevix - through its offshore unit Ecovix - is proceeding with construction of the eight FPSO hulls at the Estaleiro Rio Grande shipyard, in southern Rio Grande do Sul state, after clinching a $3.46 billion contract in 2010.



Each unit will have capacity to produce 150,000 barrels per day of oil and 8 million cubic metres per day of natural gas. Six FPSOs will be deployed in the giant Lula field and two in the nearby Sapinhoa field, formerly known as the Guara accumulation.



Petrobras expects the first two units to start up in 2015 at the Lula Alto and Lula Central areas, with the remaining six following in 2016 and 2017.

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