Petrobras is negotiating additives to modify the P-71. The FPSO is in the integration phase at Estaleiro Jurong and will be allocated in the Itapu field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt

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Petrobras to find out whether the changes to the platform will imply more costs and whether, given the new scenario, the state-owned company will cancel the tender for chartering the Itapu FPSO, which is in progress, or will maintain it, with a view to hiring Lula FR.

The fate of FPSO P-71 – whose topside involves integration works at the shipyard, was still open, between Lula FR and Itapu, although Petrobras' current business plan, the state-owned company would already have opted for its allocation in Itapu.

According to information from the Federal Court of Auditors, Petrobras intended to use the FPSO P-71 in the transfer of rights project, but in order to maximize profits, the oil company decided to back out.

Allocating the P-71 to Itapu will delay the first FPSO oil by seven months, in addition to reducing the Net Present Value (NPV) forecast for the project by US$ 173,2 million.

In the current strategic plan (2020-2024), the P-71 is allocated to the Lula FR Project and that the unit is an asset belonging to the consortium formed by the companies Petrobras, Shell and Petrogal.

According to Petrobras' PN 2020-24, the first oil from Lula FR and Itapu is scheduled for 2022 and 2024, respectively. The start year of production at Itapu has already been changed at least four times: from 2021, according to the PN 2017-21, to 2022, 2023 and 2024, in the following plans.

Itajaí Terminal delivers the last module of Petrobras' P-71 Platform

Last Thursday (11), the last module of Petrobras' P-71 platform left Itajaí, in Rio de Janeiro, and headed to the Jurong Aracruz shipyard (EJA), in Espírito Santo, where it should be integrated with the other modules. of the unit, which represent the set of equipment and valves responsible for the operation of the FPSO.

In May 2019, the ferry Locar V suffered a partial sinking while carrying two P-71 power generation modules. The last module wandered around Itajaí, waiting for a course for practically a year at Braskarne's port terminal.

The hull of FPSO P-71 was built in China and delivered to Petrobras in March of this year, where it is at the EJA for installation of other modules, finalization and commissioning of the platform.