Roncador FPSO P-54 online
Platform P-54 went online last night (12/11) in the Roncador field, in the Campos Basin. Designed to produce 180,000 barrels per day, at peak production, it will increase that field’s installed capacity to 460,000 barrels per day and make an important contribution to sustaining Brazil’s oil self-sufficiency.
Built from the conversion of the Barão de Mauá vessel, which belonged to Petrobras’ fleet, the P-54 is capable of compressing 6,000,000 cubic meters of gas per day and of storing up to 2,000,000 barrels of oil. The new platform is an addition, in the Roncador field, to the P-52, which kicked production off in November and is capable of lifting 180,000 bpd, and to FPSO Brasil, which lifts 100,000 bpd.
With the P-54 going into operation, Petrobras concludes the inauguration cycle of three new production units in Southeastern Brazil in the last quarter of the year. In addition to it and to the P-52, in November, the company had already put FPSO Cidade de Vitória into operation, a unit that is capable of producing 100,000 bpd, in the Golfinho field, Espírito Santo Basin.
Technical characteristics
The P-54 is an FPSO-type (floating production, storage, and offloading unit) production platform. It will be anchored at a surface water depth of 1,400 m, equivalent to two times the height of the Corcovado, in Rio de Janeiro, and will be interconnected to 17 wells, 11 of which oil and gas producers, while six water injectors.
The new platform is expected to reach peak production in the second half of 2008. Until then, the unit will also reach its peak gas outflow level: 1.8 million cubic meters per day. Oil production outflow will be performed by relief vessels, while the gas will be transported over submarine pipelines to mainland.
As was the case with the P-52, Petrobras built the new platform in compliance with the new nationalization parameters. Totaling 63% national content, the P-54 construction work generated 2,600 direct and 10,000 indirect jobs.
The FPSO was built in a modular fashion, in 41 months, after three agreements were signed in June 2004. The Dresser Rand/Mauá Jurong consortium built the gas compression modules, while Nuovo Pignone made the power generation ones. The Jurong Shipyard was in charge of converting the hull, of manufacturing the remaining process and utility modules, and of unit integration.
The process, utility, and compression modules were built at the Mauá-Jurong construction site, in Niterói (RJ), while the power generation at Nuovo Pignone’s Porto Novo Rio construction site, in Caju (RJ).
P-54 data
Location: Campos Basin, 125 Km off the coast, in line with Cape São Tomé (RJ)
Oil production: 180,000 barrels/day
Gas compression: 6,000,000 m3/day
Power generation: 92 MW (capable of supplying a 290,000-inhabitant city)
Anchoring depth: 1,400 m
Length: 337 m
Living quarters: 160 people
Total weight: 73,000 tons
