FPSO P-57 Starts Oil Production
FPSO P-57 started its first oil production on 17 December 2010 on the Jubarte field offshore Brazil in the Campos Basin. This major project milestone marks the final delivery and hand over of the FPSO to Petrobras and has been reached two months ahead of schedule. The initial contract for the supply of the newbuild to Petrobras was signed in February 2008, with delivery of the unit planned 33 months later offshore Brazil with a further two months scheduled for installation.
Construction works were performed both in Singapore and Brazil with the contractual requirement of 65% Brazilian content being exceeded. SBM Offshore will operate the facility for the first three years of production at the Jubarte field which is located 80 km off the Espírito Santo coast at a water depth of 1,260 m.
The FPSO will produce oil of seventeen degrees API and is capable of processing up to 180,000 barrels of oil and 2 million cubic m of gas per day, facilitating production from twenty two interconnected wells, of which fifteen are producers and seven are water injectors. This project is one of the most technically complex facilities SBM Offshore has designed and built for Petrobras so far, and also one of the most challenging in terms of project execution with the high local content requirement for construction in Brazil.