Tartaruga Verde FPSO starts operations offshore Brazil

MODEC (a provider of competitive floating solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry and is recognised as a leading specialist for Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels, Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) vessels, Floating LNGs (FLNGs), Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs), and Production Semi-submersibles) says the FPSO Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes MV29 has produced first oil for Petrobras from the Tartaruga Verde field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.

The vessel, leased on a 20-year time charter contract, is moored roughly 125 kilometres (77.7 miles) offshore Macaé, Rio de Janeiro state, in water depths of 765 metres(2,510 feet).

It has capacity to process 150,000 b/d of crude, compress 176 MMcf/d of gas, and to store 1.6 MMbbl of oil.

MODEC’s duties covered engineering, procurement, construction, mobilisation and installation of the vessel and its topsides processing equipment and hull.

The company’s subsidiary SOFEC designed and supplied the spread mooring.

This is the 12th FPSO MODEC has delivered to the Brazilian sector.

Source: Offshore Magazine