Brazil's Petrobras has received bids from Asian companies offering the supply of two critical power generation modules for the delayed P-71 floating production, storage and offloading unit, write Gareth Chetwynd and Xu Yihe.

They are to replace two originally supplied modules, each holding a two-turbine set of power generation units, that were completely lost in May when a transport barge sank off Itajai, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.