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The Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras Awarded McDermott A Contract For The Engineering, Procurement, Construction, And Installation Of Subsea Risers And Flowlines For The First Phase Of The Sépia Field, Offshore Brazil.
McDermott said on Tuesday that the contract was significant. The company defines a significant contract as one valued between US$ 250 million and US$ 500 million. Under the terms of the contract, McDermott will design, inspect, supply, install, and pre-commission rigid pipelines, jumpers, buoyancy modules, spools, and riser monitoring systems for seven branch wells (3 producers and 4 injector wells) connected to the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) Carioca.
The FPSO will be delivered by the Japanese company Modec, which in turn contracted Keppel to build and integrate the upper module of the FPSO Carioca MV30.
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“McDermott has had a strong presence in Brazil for over four decades, and we see tremendous growth opportunities in the region”, said Mark Coscio, Senior Vice President of McDermott for North, Central, and South America.
The McDermott office in Rio de Janeiro will carry out the work with support from its Houston office. McDermott plans to use five ships for the installation work at ultra-deep water depths of up to 2,140 meters (7,021 feet).
The Sépia field operated by Petrobras is located in the massive “pre-salt” region of the Santos Basin, about 250 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, at a water depth of approximately 2,200 meters. First oil is expected in 2021.
McDermott And The Rota 3 Works Of Comperj
On March 19, the marine works of the Rota 3 pipeline, which will connect the pre-salt to the Natural Gas Processing Unit (UPGN) of Comperj, began on Jaconé beach in Maricá. This is the contract for the installation of subsea pipelines aimed at carrying gas production from the pre-salt fields.
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