Platform P-55 begins operation in Roncador field

Petrobras’ P-55 platform, one of the strategic projects in the 2013-2017 Business and Management Plan, started-up the on the 31^st December 2013 in Campos Basin’s Roncador field.

P-55 is part of Roncador's field Module 3 project and will be connected to 17 wells, 11 of which are oil and gas production and six water injection. Oil and natural gas will be transported from the platform via submarine pipelines connected to the unit till the oil and gas offloading system of the Campos Basin.

P-55

P-55 is a semi-submersible unit installed at a water depth of 1800 m, with a daily capacity for processing 180 000 barrels of oil, compressing 6 million m³ of natural gas and injecting 290 000 barrels of water.

Weighing 52 000 t and with an area of 10 000 m², P-55 is the biggest semi-submersible platform ever built in Brazil and one of the biggest of its kind worldwide.

Construction work on P-55 is part of the Brazilian Federal Government’s Growth Acceleration Plan – PAC. The construction and integration of platform modules were carried out entirely in Brazil, boosting the local content rate to 79%. Construction work generated 5000 direct and 15 000 indirect jobs.

The new unit will operate alongside platforms P-52 and P-54, already installed in Roncador field, and with platform P-62, that left the Atlântico Sul Shipyard, in Ipojuca (state of Pernambuco) on 30^th January 2013, and is moving toward its location in Module IV of the field.

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