Ezra Holdings Limited, a Singapore-based contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry, has announced that the group’s wholly owned subsidiary, London Marine Consultants (LMC), Ezra’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) turret design outfit, has been awarded a contract by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary, Jurong Shipyard of Singapore, to supply an external turret mooring system for Libra field’s Extended Well Test (EWT) FPSO vessel. The Libra field is a large, ultra-deepwater (up to 8,202 feet or 2,500 metres) oil and gas prospect located in the Santos basin, about 143 miles (230 km) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, north of the Tupi field. The field is estimated to contain recoverable resources in the range of 8 to 12 billion barrels of oil and gas and is one of the largest deepwater accumulations globally. OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co. KG, a JV between Brazil’s Odebrecht Oil & Gas and Teekay Offshore, awarded a contract to the Jurong Shipyard for conversion of the Navion Norvegia shuttle tanker to form the Libra EWT FPSO. This JV company will own and operate the FPSO, chartering it to Petrobras for 12 years, excluding options. The scope of supply includes EPC of the complete external turret. LMC will also design the mooring lines, analyse the risers and provide engineering support for integration of the turret and swivel stack on to the FPSO at the Jurong Shipyard. Engineering and project management are currently under way in the group’s London office, with turret fabrication planned at Triyards in Vietnam, another subsidiary of Ezra Holdings. Under a subcontract from LMC, One Subsea will manufacture an advanced swivel stack in Norway, with six swivels, including two high pressure (550 bar) gas injection swivels, in time for integration of the complete turret on to the FPSO in the first quarter of 2016.
