The forecast by the Dutch oil company SBM predicts that by 2023 Brazil will account for almost half of the world's new orders for FPSOs

Good news for the Brazilian offshore naval sector! Brazil is expected to order 15 FPSOs out of the 35 foreseen in global contracts by 2023. Nine oil wells in the Campos Basin pre-salt were licensed yesterday by Shell.

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The good news came from the Dutch oil company SBM, last Thursday (13). According to market analysts, the second place will go to the African offshore, with six promising platform contracts.

Seven of the fifteen platform ships in SBM's global fleet are in Brazil, they are the FPSOs Espírito Santo, Anchieta, Capixaba, Cidade de Paraty, Cidade de Ilhabela, Cidade de Maricá and Cidade de Saquarema.

A Dutch The oil company signed a contract with the Brazilian state-owned Petrobras at the end of the second half of 2019 for the construction and operation of the Mero 2 platform vessel (Sepetiba). The unit's production forecast is scheduled for 2023, where the FPSO will be operated for almost 23 years by SBM.

Analysis by Energy Maritime Associates (EMA), show that investments in FPSOs in Brazil should reach US$ 28,4 billion by 2024, almost a third of the global total in the period (US$ 98,9 billion).

The Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras foresees in its current business plan the installation of 13 platforms by 2024, namely the FPSOs P-70, which will produce in the Atapu field in 2020; Mero 1 and Sepia (2021); Marlim 1, Búzios 5 and Lula Oeste (2022); Parque das Baleias, Mero 2 and Marlim 2 (2023); and Búzios 6, Mero 3, Sergipe Águas Profundas and Itapu (2024).

Among other projects with newbuilds to come in Brazil in the coming years are those of Carcará (Equinor, 2023-2024) and Gato do Mato (Shell, possibly in 2024).

Among the informed FPSOs, seven have already been contracted (in addition to P-70, which is a Petrobras unit): Mero 1, Sépia, Búzios 5, Marlim 1 and Carcará, with Modec; Mero 2 (SBM); and Marlim 2, with Yinson

SBM Offshore published its Annual Report and Profit for 2019. Hear below the company's CEO Bruno Chabas, who reflects on a positive year for the company