Eccoci qui.
Dopo i nove fra morti e dispersi di un mese fa, un altro incendio su una FPSO. Siamo questa volta in Norvegia, dove la FPSO Petrojarl Knarr, costruita nel 2014 e che aveva circa 100 persone a bordo si e' incendiata. E' il secondo incidente in sei mesi. Interessante che era stata costruita per durare almeno 10 anni, e si incendia per due volte in sei mesi!
Il primo e' capitato mentre era ancora nel cantiere ad Ottobre 2014. Questo invece divampa proprio durante la prima settimana di attivita', a 120 chilometri da Floro, Norvegia.
Notare i 120 chilometri da riva della Norvegia, contro i 9 dell'Abruzzo!
L'incendio e' stato domato e nessuno si e' fatto male, ma la produzione si e' fermata. La Petrojarl Knarr, puo' produrre fino a 63,000 barili al giorno e ne puo' stoccare circa 800,000.
Non male no, per una FPSO di pochi mesi di anzianita'!
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Dall'altra parte del pianeta invece, venerdi 19 Marzo, la Petrobras di Brasile ha dovuto fermare le sue operazioni petrolifere su un altra FPSO a causa di "irregolarita'" sulla nave desolforante.
La nave si trovava a 115 chilometri al largo della citta' di Vitoria, nel bacino del Espirito Santo Basine fa parte della concessione detta Parque das Baleias. Da qui si processavano circa 106,000 barili di petrolio al giorno - il 4% della produzione di tutto il Brasile.
RIO
DE JANEIRO, March 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Petrobras said on
Friday it shut its P-58 offshore oil production ship after the country's
petroleum regulator ANP found irregularities on board the vessel, one
of the company's most important offshore production systems.
The ship was producing 106,000 barrels of oil and natural gas
equivalent a day in January, 84 percent of it crude, from seven wells,
according to the latest ANP figures. That was 4.1 percent of Petrobras'
total Brazilian output in the month.
The floating production, storage and offloading ship (FPSO) received
oil from the Parque das Baleias project, a group of fields in the
Espirito Santo Basin, about 115 kilometers (71 miles) southeast of
Vitoria, Brasil.
The shutdown comes a little more than a month after a deadly
explosion on a Petrobras offshore oil and natural gas production ship
operated by BW Offshore Ltd, a Norwegian-listed production vessel
operator. That and a series of refinery accidents have led unions to
attack the company's safety record.
The pressure of a much-delayed $221 billion, five-year investment
plan, rising debt and a corruption scandal that has forced Petrobras to
stop work with many important contractors, is stretching workers and
equipment to their limit, according to FUP, the country's national oil
union confederation.
Workers on the FPSO say production began with many systems
incomplete, forcing workers to finish construction on the high-seas
instead of a shipyard.
"We have been complaining about safety problems since production
started, but with other production unit accidents, the ANP finally
decided to inspect the production units," Davidson Lomba told Reuters in
a telephone interview.
"We finally decided to stop doing any more construction work on the
production unit," he added. "Not only is it more expensive to do the
work at sea, it's more dangerous."
In statements confirming the shutdown, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as
Petrobras is formally known, said the move was preventative, aimed at
improving efficiency at a vessel that has been producing for a year, but
is only now receiving its final commissioning.
Thanks to its incomplete systems, the FPSO P-58 was operating at only
about 60 percent of its designed capacity of 180,000 barrels a day when
output was stopped, Lomba said.
The P-58 was Brazil's No. 5 production unit in January and one of only six that produce more than 100,000 barrels a day.
(Reporting by Jeb Blount; editing by Gunna Dickson)
Copyright 2015 Thom
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RIO
DE JANEIRO, March 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Petrobras said on
Friday it shut its P-58 offshore oil production ship after the country's
petroleum regulator ANP found irregularities on board the vessel, one
of the company's most important offshore production systems.
The ship was producing 106,000 barrels of oil and natural gas
equivalent a day in January, 84 percent of it crude, from seven wells,
according to the latest ANP figures. That was 4.1 percent of Petrobras'
total Brazilian output in the month.
The floating production, storage and offloading ship (FPSO) received
oil from the Parque das Baleias project, a group of fields in the
Espirito Santo Basin, about 115 kilometers (71 miles) southeast of
Vitoria, Brasil.
The shutdown comes a little more than a month after a deadly
explosion on a Petrobras offshore oil and natural gas production ship
operated by BW Offshore Ltd, a Norwegian-listed production vessel
operator. That and a series of refinery accidents have led unions to
attack the company's safety record.
The pressure of a much-delayed $221 billion, five-year investment
plan, rising debt and a corruption scandal that has forced Petrobras to
stop work with many important contractors, is stretching workers and
equipment to their limit, according to FUP, the country's national oil
union confederation.
Workers on the FPSO say production began with many systems
incomplete, forcing workers to finish construction on the high-seas
instead of a shipyard.
"We have been complaining about safety problems since production
started, but with other production unit accidents, the ANP finally
decided to inspect the production units," Davidson Lomba told Reuters in
a telephone interview.
"We finally decided to stop doing any more construction work on the
production unit," he added. "Not only is it more expensive to do the
work at sea, it's more dangerous."
In statements confirming the shutdown, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as
Petrobras is formally known, said the move was preventative, aimed at
improving efficiency at a vessel that has been producing for a year, but
is only now receiving its final commissioning.
Thanks to its incomplete systems, the FPSO P-58 was operating at only
about 60 percent of its designed capacity of 180,000 barrels a day when
output was stopped, Lomba said.
The P-58 was Brazil's No. 5 production unit in January and one of only six that produce more than 100,000 barrels a day.
(Reporting by Jeb Blount; editing by Gunna Dickson)
Copyright 2015 Thom
- See more at:
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/137804/Petrobras_Halts_Giant_Production_Unit_As_Safety_Problems_Found#sthash.7kmCvLTN.dpuf
Secondo gli impiegati, queste FPSO vengono mandate in mare aperto quando ci sono sistemi operativi incompleti e pericolosi. Secondo loro ci vorrebbero maggiori controlli sulla terraferma, prima di partire per l'oceano. Uno dei lavoratori di Petrobras dice infatti a Reuters:
"We have been complaining about safety problems since production
started"
Ovviamente la Petrobras e' in preda ad una grande crisi a causa di rinvii di finanzamenti di circa 221 miliardi di dollari, aumento dei debiti e scandali e corrizione varia. Ovviamente tutto questo sottrae risorse alla sicurezza, fa si che i lavoratori stiano piu' ore nelle loro mansioni, rendendo tutto piu pericoloso.
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Sono sicura che ad Ombrina - a nove chilometri da riva mentre qui si parla di 115, 120 - tutto filera' liscio come l'olio. E se dovessero mai esserci incidenti, potremmo sempre dire che era per allietare turisti e residenti, come se fossero spettacoli pirotecnici.
RIO
DE JANEIRO, March 20 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Petrobras said on
Friday it shut its P-58 offshore oil production ship after the country's
petroleum regulator ANP found irregularities on board the vessel, one
of the company's most important offshore production systems.
The ship was producing 106,000 barrels of oil and natural gas
equivalent a day in January, 84 percent of it crude, from seven wells,
according to the latest ANP figures. That was 4.1 percent of Petrobras'
total Brazilian output in the month.
The floating production, storage and offloading ship (FPSO) received
oil from the Parque das Baleias project, a group of fields in the
Espirito Santo Basin, about 115 kilometers (71 miles) southeast of
Vitoria, Brasil.
The shutdown comes a little more than a month after a deadly
explosion on a Petrobras offshore oil and natural gas production ship
operated by BW Offshore Ltd, a Norwegian-listed production vessel
operator. That and a series of refinery accidents have led unions to
attack the company's safety record.
The pressure of a much-delayed $221 billion, five-year investment
plan, rising debt and a corruption scandal that has forced Petrobras to
stop work with many important contractors, is stretching workers and
equipment to their limit, according to FUP, the country's national oil
union confederation.
Workers on the FPSO say production began with many systems
incomplete, forcing workers to finish construction on the high-seas
instead of a shipyard.
"We have been complaining about safety problems since production
started, but with other production unit accidents, the ANP finally
decided to inspect the production units," Davidson Lomba told Reuters in
a telephone interview.
"We finally decided to stop doing any more construction work on the
production unit," he added. "Not only is it more expensive to do the
work at sea, it's more dangerous."
In statements confirming the shutdown, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as
Petrobras is formally known, said the move was preventative, aimed at
improving efficiency at a vessel that has been producing for a year, but
is only now receiving its final commissioning.
Thanks to its incomplete systems, the FPSO P-58 was operating at only
about 60 percent of its designed capacity of 180,000 barrels a day when
output was stopped, Lomba said.
The P-58 was Brazil's No. 5 production unit in January and one of only six that produce more than 100,000 barrels a day.
(Reporting by Jeb Blount; editing by Gunna Dickson)
Copyright 2015 Thom
- See more at:
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/137804/Petrobras_Halts_Giant_Production_Unit_As_Safety_Problems_Found#sthash.7kmCvLTN.dpuf
