Petrobras’ P-79 FPSO Arrives to Brazil to Support Búzios Growth Plan

Petrobras has welcomed its P-79 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to the Búzios field in Brazil’s Santos Basin pre-salt, in line with the planned schedule.

The unit, capable of producing 180,000 barrels of oil per day and compressing 7.2 million cubic meters of gas per day, was towed to location with crew onboard, a strategy previously used with P-78 aimed at reducing the time to first production.

The FPSO was built by SAME Netherlands BV, a joint venture between Italy’s Saipem and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, in Geoje-si, where the hull construction, integration and commissioning of the topside modules were carried out.

The topside modules were built in China, Brazil, South Korea and Indonesia. The voyage from the shipyard to Brazil took approximately three months.

P-79 is one of 12 units planned for installation in the Búzios field and joins seven platforms already in operation - P-74, P-75, P-76, P-77, Almirante Barroso, Almirante Tamandaré and P-78.

“Embarking the crew during the voyage to the location allows complex FPSO systems to be brought into operational condition without interrupting the continuity of the commissioning process, in addition to enabling team training. All of this speeds up the start of production. The