Petrobras to consider appeal by India's Shapoorji regarding "too costly" FPSO bid this week

Brazil's Petrobras should analyze an appeal filed by India's Shapoorji Pallonji Energy in the tender to charter an offshore oil production vessel this week, the state-run oil firm's head of engineering, technology and innovation, Renata Baruzzi, said on Tuesday.

The Indian company was the only one to bid on chartering an FPSO for Petrobras' Barracuda and Caratinga fields. The oil company rejected the bid as too costly.

It would have been the first such deal between the two firms. The vessel would be part of a broad revitalisation plan for the Campos Basin, where production has declined.

The FPSO would have the capacity to produce up to 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) and process up to six million cubic metres of gas daily.

If Petrobras rejects the appeal by Shapoorji, the firm would need to restart the bidding process in the tender, said Baruzzi, which could delay the Barracuda-Caratinga project.

(Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier, writing by Fabio Teixeira; Editing by David Gregorio)