Petrobras orders 34 mooring torpedoes from a company in Belo Horizonte for FPSO Mero 1

Brazilian engineering and construction company Delp will deliver subsea torpedoes for the mooring system, designed to keep Petrobras' Mero 1 FPSO in place.

Petrobras closed with Delp Engenharia, a company that owns facilities in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, but a large project to supply 34 mooring torpedoes for FPSO Mero 1, located in the Mero field and located about 180 kilometers off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in ultra-deep pre-salt waters, having high quality carbonate reservoirs with high productivity expected in the wells.

Delivery will take place in early 2020. According to Delp, its torpedoes offer “an attractive cost savings” compared to suction stacks.

Delp disclosed: "We are happy to add these 34 torpedo units to our track record of more than 600 successfully delivered to date".

FPSO Mero-1 will be operated by Modec, the company responsible for construction, and will be chartered for 22 years. Part of the construction will be carried out in Brazil.

If you are curious to know how an operation works with these Torpedo Anchors, click here or watch the video below that Click Petróleo e Gás made a few months ago on Facebook:

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Modec recently awarded a contract to Brazil's offshore construction specialist, Estaleiros do Brasil Ltda. (EBR), for the fabrication and assembly of various topside process modules for the Mero FPSO system, the FPSO Guanabara MV31. Find out the details of this work and project here.

The Libra Block was developed under a consortium contract with Petrobras (40% stake) as operator and Shell (20%), Total (20%), CNOOC Limited (10%), CNPC (10%) and Pre- Sal Petróleo – PPSA (state company, manager of the Libra Consortium contract) as well as the other consortium partners.