A Petrobras-led consortium has postponed bidding on a tender for the supply of the Mero-2 FPSO, a second big floating production storage and offloading unit for this Santos basin pre-salt development.

Modec International, SBM Offshore and BW Offshore were tipped to bid for the Mero-2 job this week, but Petrobras decided to postpone until 14 February, sources confirmed to Upstream.