Floating production systems

The new vessel, P-78, will be deployed on the Buzios field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil.

Shell became the first international company to operate producing fields offshore Brazil and the first to navigate the country’s complex and detailed decommissioning permitting process, which involved extensive environmental assessments, regulatory approvals, and coordinated stakeholder engagement.

Technical safety standards are essential as global offshore exploration heats up.

The field, which holds the first production license on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, sent oil to the Jotun FPSO on 23 June.

Less than 3 months after going onstream, the Barents Sea project, the northernmost production offshore Norway, is producing 220,000 B/D.

Spanish yard will prep the almost 40-year-old FPSO for redeployment opportunities for new owner.

Once labeled “undrillable,” Brazil’s heavy-oil Atlanta field in the Santos Basin faced technical, financial, and logistical challenges. But through a phased approach, clever reuse of assets, and disciplined project execution, Brava Energia transformed a risky deepwater asset into a producing field with 172 million BOE in 2P reserves.

In the wake of the falling number of exploratory wells in the country, Brazil-owned Petrobras addressed audience concerns as well as outlined new avenues for production at the Offshore Technology Conference.

FPSO Nganhurra, laid up in Malaysia, produced Woodside’s Enfield field until the end of 2018.

FPSO is the fourth unit to go online in the deepwater pre-salt Mero field in 3 years.