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1. Project Background
Petrobras's pre-salt FPSO program is one of the largest sustained offshore production-equipment buildouts in the world. According to Petrobras's published business plan and ongoing trade press coverage, the operator targets multiple new FPSOs in operation across the Buzios and Mero fields and other pre-salt assets between 2024 and the end of the decade. The program's distinguishing features are very large unit capacities (often 180,000 to 225,000 barrels of oil per day per FPSO), multi-shipyard hull and module construction, and SBM Offshore's Fast4Ward standardized hull program for several units.
For international procurement engineers, the Petrobras pre-salt FPSO topsides procurement program is a reference point for how a single national oil company organizes a multi-billion-dollar topsides supply chain spread across Brazil, China, South Korea and Singapore.
2. Scale by the Numbers
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