Modec’s Cidade de Mangaratiba MV 24 floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel achieved first oil production in October in the BM-S-11 block, located in the giant pre-salt Santos basin, offshore Brazil.
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The Cidade de Mangaratiba. From Modec. |
The vessel is moored at the Lula field in the Iracemal Sul area in 2200m water depth. The Cidade de Mangaratiba is capable of processing 150,000b/d, 280MMcf/d of gas, and has a storage capacity of approximately 1.6MMbbl of crude oil.
The FPSO is under a 20-year lease and operation contract for the Petrobras subsidiary, Tupi B.V.
The Cidade de Mangaratiba is the ninth FPSO/FSO vessel Modec has in Brazil in addition to Modec’s third FPSO in the pre-salt after FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis MV22 and FPSO Cidade de Sao Paulo MV23.
At the beginning of December, Petrobras awarded Modec and its Brazilian partner Schahin Group a contract to supply, charter, and for the operation of a FPSO vessel for the Tartaruga Verde and Tartaruga Mestica fields, located in the Campos basin, offshore Brazil.
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