After leaving the Benoi shipyard in Singapore on July 13th, the FPSO P-78 has arrived at the Búzios Field in the Santos Basin pre-salt layer, where it will be interconnected to the wells and soon begin production.
The Búzios Field is located in the ultra-deepwater Santos Basin (depths of up to 2,100 meters), 180 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. The Búzios 6 project has 13 wells: six production wells (with two convertible to injectors), six WAG injectors, and one gas injector. The unit will be interconnected with rigid pipelines for production, injection, and gas export, and flexible pipelines for service and gas lift lines.
FPSO P-78 is the seventh unit scheduled for installation in the field and will join the six other platforms operating in the field: FPSOs P-74, P-75, P-76, P-77, Almirante Barroso, and Almirante Tamandaré.
P-78 has a production capacity of 180,000 barrels of oil and can compress 7.2 million cubic meters of gas daily. The use of a crewed navigation strategy will allow production to begin approximately two weeks earlier than the traditional sheltered waters shutdown model. Manned transportation allows several complex FPSO systems to be maintained in operational condition, the commissioning process to continue, and the training of teams on these systems, reducing the total time between arrival at the final location and the start of oil production.
After arrival and before entering into operation, the platform will be anchored and interconnected to the oil-producing wells, which is expected to take approximately two months.
The hull construction was carried out at shipyards in Yantai and Hayang, China, and Ulsan, South Korea, where the blocks were also integrated. The FPSO was then transported to a shipyard in Singapore, where the topside modules, built in Brazil (Seaterium Angra dos Reis Shipyard, formerly Brasfels), China, and Singapore, were integrated and commissioned.
'The P-78 joins the other production units to further increase production in the Búzios Field, which has already exceeded 900,000 barrels of oil per day,' said Sylvia Anjos, Director of Exploration and Production.
For Renata Baruzzi, Director of Engineering, Technology, and Innovation, 'meeting the platform's completion schedule reinforces the importance of integrated project management.'
Source: Petrobras
