Happens on Tuesday (17), at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard in Ipojuca (Pernambuco state), the ceremony of completion of the P-62 platform. Will be present at the time the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and President of Petrobras, Graça Foster.

FPSO (abbreviation for unit that produces, stores and offloads oil), the P-62 has a daily capacity to produce 180,000 barrels of oil and 6 million cubic meters of gas, inject 42 billion cubic meters of water, and will act in the Roncador field, in the post-salt Campos Basin. The platform will be installed in water depth of 1,600 meters, 125 kilometers from the coast, giving way to the production in the first quarter of 2014.

Designed to meet the demand for Petrobras production platforms as Business Plan 2013-2017 and Management Company, the production unit is a further development of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) of the Brazilian Federal government.

The basic design of the platform was developed by the Research Center Leopoldo Americo Miguez de Mello (Cenpes). His work generated about 5000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect and featured high level of local content: about 63%, achieved mainly with building services modules , ship conversion and integration performed in Brazil.

Construction

The hull of the ship MT Suva underwent adaptations in the Jurong shipyard in Singapore , before arriving at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard in Ipojuca Pernambuco state in January 2012. In EAS through steps of converting and integrating into a FPSO vessel, the position of the consortium Camargo Correia and Iesa (CCI) .

The construction of the 15 modules of the platform, responsible for the processing and treatment of oil, gas and water, was also made in Brazil by three packets with the contracted UTC Engenharia, in Niterói (Rio de Janeiro state ) - process modules and compression , and Company Brazilian Engineering (CEE) in Itaguaí (Rio de Janeiro) - process modules.

Once finalized , the modules were transported by barges and delivered to the JRC in Ipojuca, where they were hoisted on the ship's hull and connected to subsequent commissioning and testing, which finalized the construction of the FPSO.

In addition to the modules, the P-62 is also composed of pipe-rack ( for pipe structure), helideck, flare and accommodations. The unit is capable of generating 100 MW of electricity, equivalent to the consumption of a city of 330 thousand inhabitants, and has 119 meters high, 330 meters long and its weight exceeds 60,000 tons.

Crew

Production: 180,000 barrels of oil and 6 million cubic meters of gas per day

Storage capacity: 1.6 million barrels

Treatment capacity of water injection: 42 000 m³ per day 

Water injection capacity: 265,000 barrels per day

Electrical generation capacity: 100 MW

Water depth: 1,600 meters

Local content: 65%

Total weight of the platform: 60,500 tons

Length: 330 meters