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As one of the largest FPSOs in the world in terms of daily oil production, the Navion Norvegia is underway in Brazil for reinforcement in the pre-salt layer.
That's right as you read in the title, the FPSO Navion Norvegia has just left Singapore and is currently traveling across the Indian Ocean towards Brazil, with an expected arrival date around the second quarter of this year (2017). This unit will undergo long-term assessments (TDL) of the Libra blocks, located in the Santos Basin, which begins in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro and ends on the coast of Santa Catarina. The first tests will begin in mid-2017, according to Petrobras.
The association for the construction of this unit was under the responsibility of OOGTK, which managed to convert the tanker in record time into a floating production, storage and transfer unit. Its processing and production power is around 50 barrels and performs gas reinjections in the order of 4 million cubic meters daily.
The operators in the Libra Block are Petrobras, which owns 40% of the production, the powerful Shell together with Total that operate with 20% each, CNPC, which is a semi-state company in China that holds 10% and CNOOC, which is also Chinese but is a non-governmental company that managed 10% of the operational productivity of that block.
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Petrobras was keen to emphasize that the expertise of the companies involved in this consortium, especially Shell and Total, will positively contribute to maximizing productivity in that asset, due to their technological capabilities in deep waters. The main characteristics of CNOOCe and CNPC are their large purchasing power and the way in which they have been operating in recent years, which definitively completed the requirements for granting the remaining slices.
