The Peregrino C Platform Comes Close to Completion, Brazil

December 17, 2019 | Oil & Gas | Jochem Tacx | 6min

The Peregrino C Platform comes close to completion.

The $3.5 billion Peregrino Phase 2 project involves the addition of a third fixed wellhead platform to the field, extending its main productive life and adding 273 million in recoverable reserves. Located 85km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, the Peregrino C Platform will support the drilling of production and injection wells in reservoirs inaccessible from the current A and B platforms.

The Peregrino C jacket is the foundation for the The Peregrino C Platform, which exists out of drilling and process facilities, utilities, power generation, living quarters and a helideck with a design operational weight of 25,000 tonnes. The jacket is also designed for storage of fresh drill water with caissons for submerged pumps connected to such storage tanks.

The jacket, weighing 9,200 tons, with an approximate length of 135m and a footprint of 66 x 53 meters, was constructed for Equinor and partner Sinochem at the Heerema Vlissingen yard, the Netherlands.

Construction of the Peregrino C Jacket at the Heerema Vlissingen yard.

The jacket left the Heerema Vlissingen yard approximately 2 months ago on Wednesday, October 23rd towards Brazil, to be installed by Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC).

Loadout of the Peregrino C Jacket at the Heerema Vlissingen yard.

Nearly 2 months after the jacket for the Peregrino C Platform left the yard it arrived in Brazil where HMC used its Sleipnir, the worlds largest crane vessel, to install the jacket (video).

Over the next few weeks the rest of the platform, which left Texas on Tuesday, November 12  (video), will be installed, again using the heavy lift vessel Sleipnir. At the same time, Equinor is installing subsea equipment and pipelines on the seabed at the field. Once the platform comes on stream late 2020 it will create approximately 350 long term jobs offshore and onshore Brazil.