Brazilian oil giant Petrobras said it will award imminently contracts worth $4.5 billion for the construction of topsides for six of its eight "replicant" floating production, storage and offloading vessels bound for the Sapinhoa and Lula pre-salt oilfields in the Santos basin.

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The companies that receive the contracts in the next few days will be DM Construtora de Obras /TKK Engenharia, IESA Oleo e Gas, Tome Engenharia/Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen, Keppel Fels, Jurong Shipyard and Mendes Jr Trading Engenharia/OSX Construção Naval.

The contracts include integration with the FPSO hulls that are already under construction at the Estaleiro Rio Grande shipyard.

Petrobras said the contract for the topsides and integration of the seventh and eight replicant FPSOs will be awarded within the next 18 months.
Of the total eight FPSOs, two will be used on the Sapinhoa field in Block BM-S-9 and six on the Lula field in Block BM-S-11.

The Block BM-S-11 owners are Petrobras (65%), BG (25%), and Petrogal (10%).

The Block BM-S-9 partners are Petrobras (45%), BG (30%), and Repsol (25%).