On January 12, 13 topside modules of the Petrobras 400,000-ton P79 FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading Unit) project undertaken by CNOOC’s subsidiary Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “CNOOC Engineering”) were completed and delivered at the Qingdao International High-end Equipment Manufacturing Base and will be shipped to Hanwha Ocean in South Korea for integration with the hull.
With an overall length of 345.3 meters, a beam of 60 meters and a maximum displacement of 400,000 tons, the P79 FPSO is currently one of the world’s largest FPSOs, and will be commissioned in the Buzios field in Brazil’s Santos Basin, a giant deepwater oil field with an operating water depth of more than 2,000 meters. CNOOC Engineering is responsible for the design, procurement, construction and loading of the 13 core compressor modules of the FPSO, with a total module weight of nearly 30,000 tons.
The Petrobras P79 FPSO project is a large-scale deepwater FPSO project in Brazil, South America, in which CNOOC Engineering is again involved following the delivery of two 350,000-ton FPSOs, P67/P70.
In recent years, COOEC has successively delivered a number of internationally influential high-end offshore energy equipment such as Penguin FPSO, Canada LNG, and Saudi Arabia Marjan. In 2024, it won the first international 1,000-meter-class deepwater engineering EPC project through competitive front-end engineering design for the first time, gradually realizing the transition from an engineering subcontractor to an engineering EPC contractor, and then to a “package” international engineering EPC contractor.
It is understood that at present, COOEC has established good cooperative relations with dozens of international energy companies and engineering companies around the world, successfully signed EFA (long-term cooperation) agreements with large international energy companies such as Saudi Aramco and Shell, and became the first domestic company to obtain Shell HSSE (health, safety, security, and environmental protection) green certification, continuously building a highly competitive “Made in China” international brand, and vigorously promoting international energy cooperation to a higher level.