Petrobras Marlim

Brazil

Landmark: World’s Largest Subsea Development

Project Overview Project Characteristics Project Ownership

Contract Award: 1991-2000 (Trees) No. Trees: 129 (47 by FMC ) Petrobras 100%
1996 (Manifolds) Water Depth: 650 - 2,600 m
Sales: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2,100 - 8,500 ft)
Fabrication: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tree Type: Vertical
Service Base: Macaé, Brazil Tree Pressure: 5,000 psi
Host Type: Semi and FPSO Tree Bore size: 4”x2”
Contract Type: EPC Hydrocarbon: Oil and Gas
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Scope of Work Comments
4 Forty-seven (47) vertical 4”x2” 5,000 psi subsea trees The Marlim Field development is located in the northeastern part
• Nine (9) GLL-I of Campos Basin about 110 km (70 miles) offshore Rio de Janeiro.
• One (1) GLL-II The Marlim Field covers an area of 130 km2 (50 miles2) with
• Eight (8) GLL-III water depths ranging up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft). In March 1991,
• Twenty (20) GLL-IV the Floating Production Unit P-13 produced the first oil from
• Six (6) GLL-V Marlim. FMC Technologies supplied the GLL-I subsea tree which
• Three (3) GLL-VI achieved a new world water-depth record with the well MRL-3
located at 721 m (2,364 ft) of water.
4 Two (2) multiplexed subsea gas injection manifolds
4 Four (4) subsea control modules The field development was divided into two (2) phases. To
optimize investments and physical resources, the first develop-
4 Sixteen (16) pipeline end terminations (PLETs)
ment phase was divided into two (2) modules. The first module
4 One (1) Y-pipeline end manifold (Y-PLEM) with hydraulic (Module I) comprised one (1) Floating Production Unit (FPU), a
ball valve newly built semisubmersible P-18 and later the FPSO P-32, a
4 Fifty-one (51) vertical pipeline and flowline connection former Petrobras VLCC Tanker. Sixteen (16) production wells,
modules twelve (12) injection wells and a subsea manifold were connected
to the FPU.
4 System integration, testing, installation assistance, service
and maintenance Presently eight (8) FPUs are installed in Marlim, with one
hundred twenty-five (125) out of the total of one hundred twenty-
nine (129) wells already producing (83 production and 46 water
injectors, including 36 horizontal wells).

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