Petrobras Platform Auctions May Relieve the Situation of Idle Shipyards in Brazil and According to ANP About 20 Units Will Be Decommissioned Starting in 2021.
Tomorrow (07/24), the big auction will take place, organized by auctioneer João Emilio, for the Petrobras platforms P-7, P-12, and P-15, and ANP estimates this is the great start for the development of a very promising industry in Brazil: decommissioning. Naval Construction Resumption! Petrobras Will Start Manufacturing Its Own FPSOs Again and EBR Shipyard Is One of the Pre-Qualified
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According to the agency’s data, there are about 160 offshore platforms operating in Brazil, and approximately 42% of them have been in operation for over 25 years.
Out of this total, 74 platforms are fixed and have already been scheduled for decommissioning, with notifications issued to ANP that 15 to 20 of them will be decommissioned starting in 2021.
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Opportunities for Shipyards
According to a study by COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil will decommission 60 offshore installations and about 165 wells over the next 3 to 5 years.
This will trigger a demand for the dismantling of offshore units, which will certainly promote an activity that has not been explored by our shipyards until now.
The crisis in Brazilian shipbuilding intensified in 2014, and today we have several large national shipyards in a state of judicial recovery.
Concerned about this scenario, SOBENA created a Technical Committee to study Ship Dismantling and Platform Decommissioning, aiming to discuss technologies and best practices, and has been conducting workshops and webinars on these topics during these pandemic times.
Regarding the decommissioning of fixed platforms reported by ANP, the activity can be executed in the following ways: Complete Removal; Partial Removal; On-Site Towing; Reuse; and Leaving in Place for Alternative Uses.
All these alternatives will require the development of technologies and techniques that minimize environmental impacts in accordance with international IMO standards, with a constant concern about where and how to dispose of the generated scrap, how to solve the Coral-Sol issue that we have addressed in another article here on CPG and even how to dispose of naturally occurring radioactive materials such as Radium, Boron, Strontium, Pb-210, and others.

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