Degremont awarded E&P contract for two Petrobras FPSOs in Brazil

Degremont has been awarded a new contract for the E&P of water treatment units to equip two floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels.

Ordered by Petrobras, the FPSO units are designed for the ultra-deep oilfields offshore Brazil. The oil has to be extracted under water depths up to 2000 m, making the production process highly complex.

The contract covers the design and supply of two sulphate removal units and two reverse osmosis units for oil dilution.

The sulphate removal units will enable the treatment of seawater in order to make it suitable for water injection. It prevents from clogging the porous rock reservoirs and contributes to enhanced oil recovery.

The reverse osmosis units will enable the transformation of seawater into fresh water, allowing the removal of salt from crude oil.

Recent awards

Recently in 2013, Degremont was already awarded the E&P contract for designing and providing five water treatment units (three sulphate removal and two seawater desalination units) for another three FPSOs platforms of pre-salt Brazilian oil reserves at Petrobras projects, thereby winning 60% of the orders of the Brazilian market.

Marie-Ange Debon, Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of International activities for Suez Environment, says: “We are pleased to participate in such an important and challenging projects with Petrobras as a final client. This new contract illustrates our ambition to become the leading player in the high-potential upstream oil and gas market. Globally, the industrial water market is one of the company’s four strategic priorities for growth where we intend to reach a 10% annual growth between 2012 and 2016.”

Edited from source by Elizabeth Corner

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