30.06.10 Brazil Focus
Petrobras signs a $300 million equipment deal
Petrobras Operation Site, Rio de Janeiro
Petrobras has signed a four-year subsea manifold frame agreement
with FMC Technologies. The deal is said to be worth around $300 million, providing Petrobras will
order all the equipment included in the agreement. The deal contains a
clause which stipulates that 75 per cent of the contracted equipment will be
ordered
during the contract's four-year call-off period.
According to agreed terms, FMC will manufacture up to eight subsea manifolds
with
subsea multiplex control systems. All equipment is expected to be engineered
and
manufactured at FMC's facility in Rio de Janeiro, with deliveries scheduled to
commence in 2012.
"In February Petrobras awarded FMC a long-term subsea tree frame agreement.
Today's four-year manifold agreement further strengthens our ability to support
their ongoing and future activities, including deepwater and pre-salt
developments," said John Gremp, FMC's president and chief operating officer.
The news of the deal with FMC, comes shortly after Petrobras has agreed to pay
out R$1million to the Brazilian securities regulator, following charges of
inadequate market notice of an oil discovery, back in 2007.
To find out more about Petrobras please visit Petrobras' web site, which you
can find here.
To find out more about FMC Techenologies please visit the FMC Technologies' web
site, which you can find here.
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