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The agreement has a strong focus on safe oper- with total investments of about $118mn. Base for the new facility has been awarded to Guya-
ation and continuous improvements. Aker seismic (3-D), with an area of 575 square km, is nese contractors.
Solutions will continue its commitment to drive being started this month, and monitor seismic Thanks to the new Offshore Construction
local partnerships, with a local content rate acquisition (4-D), with an area of 478 square km, Facility, Saipem will now be able to fabricate
of minimum 90%. The company has a focus is scheduled to begin in 2024. jumpers and other sophisticated subsea struc-
on industrialising the service work in order to The new surveys will use an innovative tech- tures in Guyana.
increase efficiency, optimise execution and ena- nological solution, called Ocean Bottom Nodes Conducting these types of operations will
ble reduced operating expenses. (OBN), which allows better collection of the also require highly skilled local workers, for
“Brazil is a key global offshore market and we deposit´s information from sensors installed which Saipem will now escalate its already ongo-
look forward to continuing our strong partner- on the ocean floor to obtain better seismic ing training effort to include new specialisations
ship with Petrobras,” said Maria Peralta, execu- response in geologically complex areas such as in co-operation with recognised Guyanese
tive vice president and head of Aker Solutions’ the pre-salt. The survey of 3D geophysical data organisations, schools and service providers.
subsea business. “Aker Solutions has been pres- at different times, or 4D acquisition, allows Saipem, June 07 2021
ent in Brazil for more than four decades and we reservoir geoscientists and engineers to follow
are committed to continue to deliver our ser- fluid displacement, observe oil and water satu- MODEC’s Bacalhau FPSO
vices to help Petrobras maximise the potential ration variation and identify effects of rock-fluid
for their fields in the most safe, efficient and sus- interaction and the geomechanical behavior of project proceeds to EPCI
tainable manner possible.” reservoirs, contributing to better management
Among other services, our maintenance con- of oil recovery from the deposit and production phase with FID by Equinor
tract also includes sustainable initiatives related development.
to refurbishment of existing Petrobras assets. Petrobras is the operator of the concession MODEC is pleased to announce that on June
Petrobras has a substantial portfolio of operated where the Sapinhoá field is located, with a 45% 1, 2021, Equinor Brasil Energia, a subsidiary
oil and gas fields in Brazil, including deepwater stake, in partnership with Shell Brasil Petróleo of Equinor, took its Final Investment Decision
and pre-salt fields. Aker Solutions has during the (30%) and Repsol Sinopec Brasil (25%). (FID) for a Floating Production Storage and
last 25 years installed close to 240 subsea trees for Petrobras, June 09 2021 Offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Bacalhau field
Petrobras-operated fields offshore Brazil. offshore Brazil.
The award will be booked as order intake in Saipem launches Guyana Following a Sales and Purchase Agreement
the second quarter of 2021 in the Subsea seg- (SPA) for the FPSO which was signed between
ment. The value represents an estimate of the Offshore Construction Equinor and MODEC in January 2020, with
work expected for the fixed period of the con- respect to the Front-End Engineering Design
tract and will depend on the customer’s future Facility in Georgetown (FEED) and pre-investment of the FPSO,
demands. MODEC has now officially been awarded the
Aker Solutions, June 09 2021 A new Saipem facility has been inaugurated at contract for Engineering, Procurement, Con-
the port of Georgetown, Guyana. The Saipem struction and Installation (EPCI) for the FPSO.
Petrobras signs contract Guyana Offshore Construction Facility is tangi- MODEC will also provide Equinor with opera-
ble proof of our commitment to local content in tions and maintenance service of the FPSO for
on Sapinhoá seismic data this important frontier region. the first year from its first oil production, after
Saipem and Guyana have been enjoying a which Equinor plans to operate the FPSO until
acquisition fruitful interaction for the last four years, starting end of the license period in 2053.
with the award of the ground-breaking Liza-1
The FPSO will be deployed at the Bacalhau
Petrobras informs that it will start on June 13 the contract in 2017. Since then, our relationship has field in the BM-S-8 and Carcará North blocks
first of the two seismic surveys of the Sapinhoá grown stronger with contract awards for Liza-2 located in the giant “pre-salt” region of the San-
field monitoring project, in the pre-salt section in 2018 and more recently the Payara develop- tos Basin some 185 kilometers off the coast of
of the Santos Basin. Seismic acquisition is an ment project. the municipality of Ilhabela/SP, in the state of
important tool for managing the deposit (res- This new offshore construction facility boasts São Paulo. Equinor’s field partners are Exxon-
ervoirs) and optimising production systems, direct access to the Demerara River; this enables Mobil (40%), Petrogal Brasil (20%) and Pre-sal
seeking to maximise the value of the assets by fabricated items to be loaded onto vessels to Petroleo SA (PPSA).
increasing the recovery factor of the deposits. be delivered offshore. It will feature the largest The FPSO vessel will be permanently moored
The contract signed with the company Sea- heavy-lift crane in Guyana and specialised fab- at a water depth of approximately 2,050 meters
bed Geosolutions do Brasil includes 3-D and rication, welding and testing equipment and a by a spread mooring system to be supplied by a
4-D geophysical acquisition and processing, heavy load-bearing jetty. All construction work MODEC group company, SOFEC.
The FPSO will be one of the largest FPSOS
ever delivered to Brazil. It will have a large top-
side designed to produce up to 220,000 bpd of
crude oil, produce and inject up to 530 mcf per
day of associated gas and inject up to 200,000
bpd of seawater. Its minimum storage capacity
of crude oil will be 2mn barrels. As a remarka-
ble point, the project will use a Combined Cycle
Power Generation System as a solution to help
reduce CO2 emission of the facility on the oper-
ational phase.

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