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Petrobras rig back to full output after stoppage
RIO DE JANEIRO
Petroleumworld.com 10 31 07
Brazil state oil company Petrobras's 65,000 barrels per day offshore rig, halted on Oct. 16, resumed full output on Oct. 27, two days earlier than initially expected, the company said on Tuesday.The shutdown was due to problems in the platform's flexible riser pipeline connecting it with wells on the sea floor in the Albacora field in the Campos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, where most of Brazil's crude is produced.
Petrobras had estimated the stoppage would likely reduce the platform's average daily output to about 25,000 bpd for the whole of October. The company said last week the rig was returning onstream.
Separately, Petrobras said it signed a $1.2 billion contract for a new 100,000 barrel-per-day rig with FELS Setal-Technip consortium. The deal for the P-56 rig, which should go onstream at the end of 2010, was first announced in September, but the total value was then put at $1.4 billion.
But now Petrobras said two separate contracts, worth $141 million and $139 million, for the gas compression module and for the power module respectively, would be signed on Wednesday. These will involve the services of Italy's Nuovo Pignone and Rolls Royce Energy Systems.
FELS Setal is controlled by Singapore's Keppel Corp (KPLM.SI: Quote, Profile, Research) Offshore & Marine Ltd. Technip (TECF.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) is a French energy services group.
The same group is building the 180,000 bpd semi-submersible P-51 platform for the Marlim Sul field, and Petrobras opted to negotiate a similar deal with the consortium to save time in bringing the new rig on-stream in the same field.
Story from Reuters 30 10 07
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