Subsea 7 was the big winner of the troubled tender and the vessel will operate in the Lapa field, in the Santos pre-salt, for the French company Total

A troubled auction for Petroleira Total finally came to an end. Subsea 7 was declared the winner of the bidding process and will supply a PLSV vessel (vessel specialized in launching flexible submarine lines) to carry out activities in the Lapa field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt.

The bidding should have ended last May, but French Total recently made some important modifications to the contractual terms of the PLSV, reducing the proposed scope of work to meet its new requirements of the Lapa field, leading the company to ask for a new tender, and causing offshore service providers to introduce new commercial prices.

Subsea 7, McDermott International, Sapura Navegacao, DOF Subsea and a consortium formed by TechnipFMC and Ocyan submitted bids in the original tender for the PLSV contract for lapa last November, but had to revise their bids at the request of Total.
The change in the scope of the French oil company was due to Ibama's refusal to release a license for the installation of up to eight flexible pipes and associated subsea equipment in two separate campaigns.

Ibama only allowed Total to drill up to four wells in Lapa over the next five years, prompting the French company to review its pipe laying program.

Scope of PLSV

The PLSV will operate in the Lapa field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, the chartered vessel will connect these wells to the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba, which belongs to Modec and has the capacity to produce 120 bopd and process 5 million m³/ d of natural gas.
The Lapa field was acquired by Total from Petrobras in January 2018 for US$1,95 billion. As the majority shareholder in the company, as it owns 35%, Total operates the field, and is partnered by Repsol-Sinopec, with 25%, and Petrobras with 10%.

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