Ten FPSO order by Petrobras

Brazil: Petrobras has revealed plans to purchase ten newbuild FPSOs.

Eight of the vessels would be built domestically, Petrobras said. Their hulls are to be built at the Rio Grande Shipyard in Southern Brazil. All the vessels would operate in waters up to 3,000 metres in depth, and would be delivered between 2013 and 2014. Petrobras also has plans to convert the 260,000DWT ‘Sunrise VI’, a VLCC into an FPSO of similar build to the new order. Its new name would be ‘FPSO Cidade de Angra dos Reis’.
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