PETROBRAS is weeks away from issuing a tender for another chartered production unit as part of a growing investment programme aimed at revitalising maturing oilfields in Brazil's Campos basin. The state-controlled company aims to deploy a new floating production, storage and offloading unit on the Barracuda field, according to Carlos Travassos, Petrobras director for engineering, technology and innovation. "Barracuda is in the approvals process and we have the expectation of putting it in the market perhaps in the next few weeks," he told Upstream. The FPSO, which will be capable of producing 100,000 barrels of oil and compressing 6 million cubic metres per day of natural gas, could pose a challenge to suppliers already stretched by the remarkable contracting push taking place at Petrobras. The planned floater will add to the existing list of 14 FPSO units that are in either contracting, construction or installation phases for Petrobras-operated projects in Brazil.
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