Petrobras has awarded Technip a contract for engineering, procurement, manufacturing and supply of 90 km of risers and flowlines for water injection, oil production, gas lift and carbon dioxide (CO2) reinjection at the Tupi Oil Field.
The Tupi Field is located at a water depth of 2,200 m in the Santos Basin, approximately 300 km off the Brazilian coast.
The key challenges of this project are due to the water depth, and the large CO2 and hydrogen sulfide content in the produced fluid. A new riser monitoring system, using distributed temperature sensor technology, has been specially developed for this application and will be incorporated in the flexible pipes.
Technip's operating centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will execute this contract. The flexible pipes will be manufactured at Technip’s plant in Vitória, Brazil, with the support of the plant in Le Trait, France.
Delivery of the pipes is scheduled to start towards the end of 2010 and finish at the end of 2012.
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Petrobras’ FPSO Cidade de São Vicente , located in the Tupi Field.
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