BG Group has technically pre-qualified SBM Offshore, Modec International and BW Offshore in a competition to potentially supply the FSO.

According to a source, BG Group is offering contractors a 20-year charter option on an FSO with storage room for 2 million barrels of light crude to start operations in 2015 in the Santos basin pre-salt province.

BG Group has minority stakes in the Lula and Sapinhoa fields, which hold combined recoverable volumes of about 10.5