Project Profile

Value: Undisclosed
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Start-up Year: Sept 2014
Water Depth: 1,600 - 2,100 m

The Buzios field, previously referred to as the Franco area, is located around 200 kilometres off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in waters ranging from 1600 to 2100 metres deep.

The well, called 3-BRSA-944A-RJS (3-RJS-688A in the nomenclature of Petrobras), informally known as Franco NW, is located in water depth of 1860 metres, about 188 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro and 7.7 km northwest of the discovery well 2-ANP-1-RJS (Franco). The discovery was confirmed by sampling of good quality oil (28 º API) obtained in the test cable. The samples were collected from 5,460 metres in reservoir thickness of carbonate rocks similar to those recorded in the discovery well.

FPSO

The P-76 floating production, storage and offloading vessel - upon completion of the commissioning process, the platform will have the capacity to produce up to 150,000 barrels per day of oil and compress 7 million cubic meters per day of natural gas. The FPSO is one of four destined for Petrobras\' Buzios field.


Operators:

Petrobras: Operator with 100% interest

Contractors:

Consortium for topsides construction and integration as well as commissioning and start-up assistance:
Technip
Techint

Aqualis Offshore: Technip and Techint chose the compnay as marine warranty surveyor for all marine operations related to the integration of the P-76 FPSO at Techint’s yard in the south of Brazil. Aqualis Offshore’s work scope runs until September 2016. Contract value is undisclosed.

Mammoet: Integration work for Petrobras’ P-76 floating production, storage and offloading vessel