The company, from its centre of excellence in Vila Velha, Brazil, has been supplying a system with large bore steel tube and power hybrid umbilical for an innovative project in Campos Basin, PRIO WAHOO PROJECT, which connects fields 30km away to a FPSO (Floating Production Offloading and storage).
With this solution, the client has been able to develop the field without the need of an additional FPSO, saving significant cost and time in the implementation of the project.
The long length umbilical was manufactured taking advantage of significant capabilities, which are the outcome of a set of recent investments to improve the capability of the plant in Vila Velha in terms of single length handling and delivering on barges. This delivery represents a major step in the readiness to serve emerging applications and tackle the challenges related to longer tieback, increased power consumption and larger, fast-track developments.
It indeed represents the first of its kind in Brazil and opens up a new possibility for the development of mature fields and implementation of new tiebacks.
The umbilical will provide hydraulic control, chemical injection as well as electrical control and signal functions to the field; it is the result of a fully integrated “end-to-end approach”, from design to simulations, manufacture, integration and testing managed by the Offshore Specialties BU team out of Brazil.
