Keppel Delivers FPSO P-66
Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Brazil, BrasFels, has delivered P-66, the first of the Replicante series of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units, to Tupi. Tupi is a consortium formed by, Petrobras (operator, 65% ), BG E&P Brasil (a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, 25%) and Petrogal Brasil (10%)P-66 departed the shipyard on 4 February 2017 to be deployed in the Lula Sul field, Santos Basin, Brazil.
BrasFELS was engaged for two Replicante projects, P-66 and P-69. The shipyard’s workscope for the projects includes the fabrication, integration, testing and commissioning of topside modules. The Replicante FPSOs are a series of FPSOs of similar design and specifications ordered by Petrobras for the Santos Basin pre-salt region.
FPSO P-66 has a production capacity of 150,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and 6 million cubic meters of gas per day. It also has a storage capacity of 1.6 million barrels of oil. Apart from FPSO P-66, BrasFELS has two other ongoing FPSO projects, its second Replicante unit, FPSO P-69, and Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29.