Designed to produce 180,000 b/d of oil at peak production, the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO P-54) went online December 11th on the Roncador field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. It will increase the field's installed capacity to 460,000 b/d. Petrobras built the new platform vessel to be added to the fleet.
Capable of compressing 211.9 MMcf/d of natural gas and storing up to 2 million barrels of oil, the P-54 is built from the conversion of tanker Barão de Mauá, which belonged to Petrobras' fleet. The new platform is an addition in the Roncador field to the P-52, which kicked off production in November and is also capable of lifting 180,000 b/d.
The new platform is expected to reach peak production in the second half of 2008. P-54 is anchored in 4,593 feet (1,400 m) of water, and will be connected to 17 wells, 11 of which oil and gas producers. The other six wells are water injectors. Oil production outflow will be performed by relief vessels. The natural gas collected will be transported via sub-sea pipelines to Brazil’s mainland.
As was the case with the P-52, Petrobras built the new platform in compliance with the new nationalization parameters. Totaling 63 percent national content, constructing the FPSO P-54 generated 2,600 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs. The P-54 was built in a modular fashion over 41 months after three agreements were signed in June 2004. The Dresser Rand/Mauá Jurong consortium built the gas compression modules, and Nuovo Pignone made the power generation ones. Jurong Shipyard was in charge of converting the hull, manufacturing the remaining process and utility modules, and unit integration. The process, utility and compression modules were built at the Mauá-Jurong construction site in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. The power generator was built at Nuovo Pignone's Porto Novo Rio construction site in Caju, Rio de Janeiro.
Another FPSO unit named Cidade de Vitória, capable of producing 100,000 b/d from the Golfinho field in the Espírito Santo Basin was put into production in November in addition to the P-54 and the P-52. Petrobras concludes in the last quarter of the year, with the inauguration cycle of three new production units in southeastern Brazil. These additional floating platforms will increase Petrobras capabilities considerably. The construction will generate thousands of jobs and once completed, new production jobs will open up to carry on the process.
Oil companies in the United States like Triple Diamond Energy Corporation keep aware of other countries producing oil for many reasons; one being to learn how other countries extract oil from their locations and another being possible trade negotiations as far as importing and exporting.
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