P-63 FPSO
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Summary Information
- Name: P-63 FPSO
- Field: Papa Terra Oil Field
- Country: Brazil
- Ownership: BW Offshore
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- Field Operated By: Petrobras
- Capacity: 140,000 barrels of oil (bopd) and 35 million cubic metres of gas
- Year of Completion: 2012
Brief Description
- The vessel is 342 metres in length, with a moulded breadth of 57.36 metres and a moulded depth of 28.5 metres. It was converted from a 320 000-dwt ULCC, built in 1983
- P-63 has a daily production capacity of 140,000 barrels of oil (bopd) and 35 million cubic metres of gas.
- The storage capacity by design is 1.4 million barrels and the operating depth is 1,200 metres.
Contractors
- BW Offshore: Marine scope of the FPSO conversion, including the hull, offloading systems and mooring equipment
- Inocean: Major parts of the hull and topside structural engineering, technical documentation and drawings for class approval during the conversion of ULCC BW Nisa (323,000 dwt) from tanker to FPSO.
- COSCO: Construction of P-63 FPSO NISA
- DPS Global: Flare Knock Out, Production Separation / PWT
- Veolia: A water treatment package to seawater comprising pretreatment and seawater sulphate removal (SRP) systems
- ABB: Electrical Systems
Status
- In operation
History
- 2009 - BW Offshore awarded scoping contract
- 2010 - Inocean awarded FPSO contract
- 2012 - P-63 FPSO NISA delivered
Other Information
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Links
- DPS FPSO References
- Inocean FPSO References
- VWS Westgarth FPSO References
- ABB FPSO References
- BW Offshore signs contract for Papa Terra FPSO
- Papa Terra-job to Inocean
- COSCO Dalian Shipyard delivered P-63 FPSO NISA to Petrobras
- Veolia Water is awarded the contract for Petrobras P63 project - Brazil
- Nine platforms that will boost oil production in Brazil
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