Brazil’s OOG Confirms the accident
Brazilian oilfield services company Odebrecht Oleo e Gas Ltda., a unit of local
construction firm Odebrecht, confirmed Monday that a fire happened during sea testing of a platform under construction in Singapore for state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras.
OOG said that the fire, which happened Thursday night, was extinguished without any environmental impact or loss of life. OOG, consortium partner Teekay Corp (TK), shipbuilder Jurong and local authorities are investigating the accident, OOG said.
Petrobras referred questions about the accident to OOG.
OOG and Teekay partnered to build the Cidade de Itajai floating production, storage and offloading vessel, or FPSO. In a recent presentation, Petrobras said that it expected to install the FPSO at the Bauna and Piracaba fields in October, with first oil from the two fields expected by the end of next month. The Cidade de Itajai has installed capacity to produce 80,000 barrels of crude oil and two million cubic meters of natural gas per day.
It remains unclear how the accident will affect the production timeline.
A series of delays in building new drilling rigs and production platforms, as well as a heavy agenda of maintenance shutdowns at offshore platforms has undercut Petrobras’s crude oil production so far in 2012. The company previously said that it expected to produce about 2.1 million barrels per day this year, but Petrobras reported last week that domestic oil output dropped 1% in July to 1.94 million barrels a day.
Source: Fox Business
