BRAZIL'S Petrobras has pushed back to next month the date for submission of bids in a tender to charter a floating production, storage and offloading vessel to be deployed in the Santos basin pre-salt province. Contracting sources told Upstream that Petrobras postponed the deadline to receive commercial offers for the FPSO that will produce from the Itapu pre-salt field from 20 July to 31 August. A year ago, Petrobras launched the tender to contract a unit for Itapu with capacity to produce 120,000 barrels per day of oil and 3 million cubic metres per day of natural gas, but since then has been struggling to garner market interest. Industry sources said the race for the Itapu FPSO may be down to only two groups: a consortium between Canada's Altera Infrastructure (formerly Teekay Offshore) and Brazil's Ocyan; and Netherlands-based SBM Offshore.
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