After the dogfish platforms, Petrobras will decommission seven more units that according to the company are already out of operation

After Epic won the bid for Petrobras to decommission the three platforms of the cation field, now it was the turn of the Brazilian state-owned company to announce that it is preparing to deactivate seven more units by 2020.
According to the state-owned company's decommissioning manager, Eduardo Zacaron, the decommissioning will not affect the company's production, as these platforms are already out of operation.

Petrobras' plan is to deactivate between 2019 and 2020 seven platforms, in addition to the three platforms that operated in the Cação field in Espírito Santo.
The cation field has not produced since 2010 and in 2015 Petrobras obtained the license to abandon the wells. According to the manager of Petrobras, who declared that: “We have to make it possible for this market to come to Brazil”, during the seminar Decommissioning in Brazil: opportunities and challenges, promoted by FGV Energy.

The model for this type of business (decommissioning) is being called EPRD (engineering, preparation, removal and disposal) and Cação is the first of its kind at Petrobras. Currently, the contract with EPIC is in the homologation phase.
The final phase of the decommissioning of the three dogfish platforms (PCA-1, PCA-2 and PCA-3) will be the final removal of the decks and jacket, scheduled for 2020.

The model applied to the other contracts must be the one used in Cação, which Zacaron considered a success since 11 companies competed with proposals in the bidding process.

New projects

Zacaron also declared that: “The focus is not on decommissioning, but on investing. What doesn't fit in our portfolio still has a market”, clearly intending to get smaller companies interested in the assets.
Petrobras currently has eight decommissioning projects to be carried out in the coming years, and they total ten platforms involved, which are: PCA-1, PCA-2, PCA-3, P-7, P-12, P-15 , P-33, FPSO Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, FPSO Cidade de Rio das Ostras and FPSO Piranema.

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