Tupi awards US$175 million contract for FPSO modification work

By Baird Maritime - July 5, 2021.

*FPSO P-71's hull following completion in China (Photo: CIMC Raffles)*

Rotterdam-based Tupi has awarded Sembcorp Marine wholly-owned Brazilian subsidiary Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA) a US$175 million contract for modification work to be carried out on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel P-71.

Originally designed for the Tupi oil field, the FPSO will undergo modification and integration at EJA for deployment at the Itapu field. EJA’s scope of work includes modification of existing systems and integration of additional systems to the vessel.

Measuring 316 by 54 metres, P-71 will be capable of handling 150,000 barrels of oil per day and six million standard cubic metres of natural gas in operation. It will have a storage capacity of 1.6 million barrels of oil and be able to accommodate 160 people.

The FPSO is scheduled to be delivered in the last quarter of 2022.