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BP prepares offshore base to support Santos drilling campaign
Energy major BP has signed a contract with Wilson Sons covering logistics support for drilling activities in the Pau Brasil block from the Rio Offshore supply base in Caju for one year
This is one of two private terminals Wilson Sons owns in Guanabara Bay, the other being the Niterói Offshore base, totalling eight berths for offshore support vessels.
The Rio Offshore base, near Rio de Janeiro, has five berths and more than 65,000 m2 of yard space. It is strategically located to support the oil fields in the Santos and Campos basins and is currently used to support offshore energy drilling and projects for Brazilian company 3R Petroleum and Malaysia’s Petronas.
This latest contract is part of a long-term relationship between BP and Wilson Sons as the Brazilian offshore support vessel owner previously provided services for BP in the port of Salvador, Bahia in 2013 for the drilling campaign in block BM-CAL-13.
Wilson Sons has also been engaged by BP Marine through NFX Combustíveis Marítimos, a joint venture of BP and Prumo Logística, to manage the Tecma Offshore base in the Port of Açu, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, which supports fuel transfer and supply operations for offshore units.
“As the prospects for the offshore oil and gas industry have improved, we have seen new drilling campaigns run by our clients,” said Wilson Sons executive director of offshore support bases Gilberto Cardarelli.
BP has 10 blocks in three different Brazilian geological basins, and says it has one of the largest deepwater exploration portfolios in the country.
It is the operating company in five blocks: BAR-M-346 in the Barreirinhas basin, CM-755 and CM-793 in the Campos, Pau Brasil and SM-1500 in the Santos, while the remaining blocks are operated by partners.
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