Keppel Confirms Early Delivery of FPSO in Brazil

Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard has confirmed that its Keppel FELS Brasil yard in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has delivered FPSO Cidade de Sao Paulo 19 days ahead of schedule and with an excellent safety record.

FPSO Cidade de Sao Paulo has a production capacity of 120,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and is able to compress 5 million cubic metres of gas per day. The vessel was converted into the FPSO from the VLCC Radiant Jewel.

It is the first of two Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) projects BrasFELS is undertaking for MODEC and Toyo Offshore Production Systems Pte Ltd (MTOPS), a joint venture between MODEC, Inc. (MODEC) and Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO).

For achieving an excellent safety performance throughout this two-year project, MTOPS awarded BrasFELS with a safety bonus in addition to an early delivery bonus.

The FPSO will be deployed in the Sapinhoá field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster, at a water depth of approximately 2,200 meters where it will be operated by Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petrobras.

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