A US $130m contract has been awarded to FMC Technologies by Petrobras for the supply of the first subsea manifold systems for its pre-salt fields offshore Brazil.
The initial award includes three manifolds, tools, spare parts and system integration with subsea controls. The manifolds will be designed with retrievable injection modules to allow water alternated gas injection for up to four wells, and will be installed in water depths of up to 2,500 m (8,200 ft).
The equipment will be manufactured in Brazil and the development engineering and system integration testing will be conducted at FMC’s Technology Centre in Rio de Janeiro. Deliveries are scheduled to start in 2015.
The pre-salt fields require customised solutions, said Tore Halvorsen, FMC’s Senior Vice President, Subsea Technologies, adding that the company had made “significant investments in our Brazilian operations to enable large-scale product manufacturing and the development of new technologies that comply with local content requirements”.
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