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Petrobras contracts Chinese shipyard to build the hull of the P-71

Written by Paulo Nogueira
Published 03/03/2018 às 07:31

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Integration will take place at the Brazilian shipyard Jurong Aracruz, in Espírito Santo. Petrobras announces that the works have already started

A Petrobras contracted the Chinese shipyard, CIMC Raffles, to convert the hull of the FPSO P-71 platform, which will be destined for production in the Sururu field, in the Santos Basin, which is not even included in the exploration and production plans. The bidding competition, had already been made last year (2017) and are already being played in the Chinese shipyard. The bright side of the story is that at least the integration will be done on Brazilian land, at the Jurong Aracruz shipyard, in Espírito Santo.

At the beginning of the project, hull intended for this unit was requested by Petrobras from Ecovix, which at the time ended up winning the bid to produce 8 hulls for pre-salt replicating FPOS's, but due to financial imbalance issues and some of its shareholders under investigation and arrested by Lava-Jato, the state-owned company ended up aborting this contract, causing it to fall by land the already built hulls. Ecovix was obliged to sell the finished hulls as scrap.

The Sururu asset was won by Petrobras in the 3rd round of bids promoted by the ANP, which is part of the BM-S-11 exploration block. Both areas in the North of Sururu and in the South of Sururu have been declared as fully commercial and form part of the state-owned company's onerous system. In November 2017, at a time when the bidding was taking place far from Brazilian lands, Ecovix tried to reach an agreement with Petrobras to try to resume activities and works at the shipyard arising from this contract in Rio Grande-RS. The proposal did not please Petrobras and kept the international bidding.

Petrobras can use the anticipation system to put the P-71 into operation at once, simply by making it more flexible and inserting this unit into its current strategic business plan, in line with operations in China. All the modules are ready, just missing the integration that has already been contracted to take place at the Jurong Shipyard

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Paulo Nogueira

An electrical engineer graduated from one of the country's technical education institutions, the Instituto Federal Fluminense - IFF (formerly CEFET), I worked for several years in the areas of offshore oil and gas, energy and construction. Today, with over 8 publications in magazines and online blogs about the energy sector, my focus is to provide real-time information on the Brazilian employment market, macro and micro economics and entrepreneurship. For questions, suggestions and corrections, please contact us at informe@clickpetroleoegas.com.br. Please note that we do not accept resumes for this purpose.

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